Photos Photos of the US Army in the ETO

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• Mar 21, 2020

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Skyline Drive said:

I'm not sure but it might also be a "Beutepanzer" that had used by the Wehrmacht. The GIs seem to be inspecting the vehicle, they don't really look like the regular crew of teh tank-

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IMHO its American, broken down, came via Normandy judging by the hedge trimmer for use in the Bocage, they appear to have a taped cross, not the same as the Black Balkan Cross with outlines used by the Germans on their armor, so technically they are inside the rules of war, might be covered under the ruse de Guerre.

 

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• Mar 22, 2020

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75mm from a "Hetzer"?

 

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• Mar 22, 2020

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75mm from a "Hetzer"?

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Yes from the "King Hetzer "
No never look the Brass !
no space for this in the Hetzer ,
Jagdpanther. 88 mm Pak 43/3 L/71 (6248 mm )

 

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• Mar 25, 2020

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Another batch of pictures from my collection. Unfortunately I do not have too much solid background information, I only know that the GI who took them was with the 6th Armored Division. But due to the presence of workshop trucks and M26 "Dragon Wagon" tank transporters, the pics might very well come form a member of the 128th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion.

The first pic is from Southhampton, prior to D-Day. The other ones are from France, most probably from Normandy or Brittany.

 

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• Mar 25, 2020

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• Mar 26, 2020

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More pictures from France, some are from the Lorraine region in eastern France.

 

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• Mar 26, 2020

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The next location is marked on the pics as "Etalle, Belgium" and there is one pic marked as taken in "Mellier" then the next set of pictures seems to be from Ebly, Belgium (Note the erroneous spelling). The pics must have been taken late December 1944, early January 1945. These pics are also the first ones to have the names of the GIs shown on it marked on the backside.

 

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• Mar 26, 2020

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Skyline Drive said:

I'm not sure but it might also be a "Beutepanzer" that had used by the Wehrmacht. The GIs seem to be inspecting the vehicle, they don't really look like the regular crew of teh tank-

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My guess, also.

 

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• Mar 26, 2020

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After Ebly the unit seems to have stopped for a while in "Bodogne". As I couldn't find a town or a village with such a name, I suppose that the photographer got the spelling wrong and the pictures were taken in the Belgian village of Bodange, to the north-west of the bordertown of Martelange.

 

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• Mar 27, 2020

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There are only two pictures that were taken in Luxembourg. One shows an M26 Dragon Wagon" tank transporter crossing the bridge, across the Sûre river, in Heiderscheidergrund. Another one shows aa GI in the village called "Heidsdorf", as there is no such village, I guess it is another spelling error. There are several possibilities what village it could have been and as I do not have any documentation regarding the unit it still remains a mystery....

 

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• Apr 1, 2020

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The last pictures in the lot are from April, May, June and July and all of them were taken in Germany. The inscriptions on the back are not always easy to decipher, but they might read Altenburg, Langensalza and Frankfurt.

 

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• Apr 1, 2020

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• Apr 1, 2020

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A series of pictures off the arrestation of Alfred Krupp, April11th 1945, near his home at the "Vill Hügel" in Essen.

 

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• Apr 4, 2020

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Another few pictures from the "Super Sixth".

General Grow, unknown location and date. If I ha dot guess I would say at the end of the war, somewhere in Germany.

An MP and his mini- Kraut "POW" ;-)

 

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• Apr 5, 2020

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Signal Corps photos of the St. Maurice and St. Maur abbey in Clervaux, Luxembourg.