Maastricht – Akerstraat (2)

Same US LCM 3 Landing Craft from Maastricht to the River Rhine in Germany – March 1945.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer
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Maastricht – Akerstraat (1)

US LCM 3 Landing Craft are transported on M25 Tank Transporters (Dragon Wagon) from Maastricht to the River Rhine in Germany – March 1945.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel

Maastricht – Hof van Veldeke (2)

Plans for the Western Front were discussed at a summit at the Henric van Veldeke College in Maastricht on 7 December 1944. There, US General and Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General Omar N. Bradley, British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, British Air Force Commander Arthur Tedder and US 9th Army Commander Lieutenant General William H. Simpson meet each other.
Then image: Imperial War Museum
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Maastricht – Hof van Veldeke (1)

Two Allied Commanders (Bradley and Montgommery) after the “Maastricht meeting” about further plans for the western front, 7 December 1944.
Then image: Imperial War Museum
Now image:  www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel & Grace Kailuhu

Maastricht – Sint Lambertuslaan

Five Allied Commanders (Tedder, Bradley, Eisenhower, Simpson and Montgomery) after the “Maastricht meeting” about the Ardennes strategy (Battle of the Bulge), 7 December 1944.
Then image:  Imperial War Museum
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Maastricht – Grote Straat

American soldiers of the Hickory Division with POW’s in the streets of Maastricht after taking the city in 1944.
Then image: ??
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Maastricht – Maastrichter Heidenstraat (1)

The inhabitants of Maastricht welcome the liberators from the Old Hickory Division into their city, in 1944.
Then image: ??
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Maastricht – Helmstraat

Soldiers and people celebrate together the liberty of Maastricht, 1944.
Then image: ?
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Maastricht – Wycker Brugstraat

Liberation of Maastricht by the Old Hickory Division. American Soldiers are walking to the Sint Servaasbrug in September 1944.
Then image: N.01 Naseman / Fotocollectie GAM
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Maastricht – Brusselsestraat

On 14 September 199 the first soldiers of the Old Hickory Division reach the city of Maastricht. Maastricht was the first city liberated in the Netherlands.
Then image: ?
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