Echt, The Netherlands, Feb 1945 during operation Blackcock: US Army technicians work on telephone wiring. The graffiti behind them reads: “1918? Never Again!”
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75mm anti-tank guns knocked out by our tanks in Schilberg, 20 January 1945.
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M10 tank destroyer of 7th NZ Anti Tank Regiment passing through San Casciano in Valdi Pesa, Italy, 1944.
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German Luftwaffe soldiers drinken beer on the Melkpad in Hilversum, 1940.
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Churchill tanks and troops of the 9th Durham Light Infantry in Schilberg, 20 January 1945.
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Arrival of Germans at the AVRO (TV) studio in Hilversum in 1940. They are received by the ‘studio chef’ Van Cappellen.
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Two soldiers from the Royal Engineers, wrapped up against the rain, patrol a road through Meterik (Horst) in Holland, 10 December 1944.
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Churchill tanks laden with infantry of the 9th Durham Light Infantry pass a knocked out German PAK 40 7.5cm anti-tank gun as they enter Schilberg, 20 January 1945.
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Again Troops of the 2nd Bn Devons, 131 Bd. 7 A/Div, clearing the town of Echt of Germans left behind to harass the advance North.
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Troops of the 2nd Bn Devons, 131 Bd. 7 A/Div, clearing the town of Echt of Germans left behind to harass the advance North.
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