Same US M4 High-Speed Tractor towing a 155mm “Long Tom” Gun M1 with “B” Battery, 261st Field Artillery, on Anton-Heinen-Straße, Erkelenz early February.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
US M4 High-Speed Tractor towing a 155mm “Long Tom” Gun M1 with “B” Battery, 261st Field Artillery, on Anton-Heinen-Straße in Erkelenz, Germany – February 1945.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
US Personnel examine a Soviet 85mm M1939 AA gun captured & reused by the Germans, and then abandoned in Schriefersmühle Germany – February 1945.
Then image: Life Magazine – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Two surprised Germans are caught in the village of Dieteren, The Netherlands by a man of the 9th Bn DLI, 16 January 1945.
Then image: IWM (B 13715)
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
104th infantry division in Linnich waiting to cross the river Roer early 1945 because the bridge was blown up by retreating German troops.
Then photo: LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer
Now photo: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
American soldiers have raised the american flag after liberation Rheydt around March 1945. The city is full of propagandaslogans as “Nun gilt’s Alles für den Sieg” or “Now everything counts for victory” and various other slogans.
Then image: Life Magazine – William Vandivert
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
German prisoners trudge past a Sherman tank in a German frontier village of Höngen, 19 January 1945.
Then image: IWM (B 13900)
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
628th tank destroyer battalion in Rheydt a suburb of Mönchengladbach, Germany during Operation Grenade 1 march 1945.
Then image: ?
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
A lone tank-man walks through the shell-shattered streets of Nieuwstadt on 31 December 1944.
Then image: IWM (B 13236)
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
A Churchill tank and a Valentine Mk XI Royal Artillery OP tank (left) in a heavily destroyed Goch, 21 February 1945.
Then image: IWM (B 14779)
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
