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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Category Archives: Liberation of Maastricht
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
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Maastricht – Hof van Veldeke (2)
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.
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