Clearing the way for US troops after the Germans? blown up the railbridge at the Röthgener Straße in Eschweiler, December 1944.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – John Florea Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Category Archives: Operation Queen
Stolberg (6)
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – John Florea Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Stolberg (5)
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – John Florea Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Stolberg (4)
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – John Florea Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Stolberg (3)
Then image: Private collection / Allen Bartell- Sgt John Claussen
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Stolberg (2)
Don W. Fehr, Company B, 32nd Armoured Regiment, 3rd Armoured “Spearhead” Division in Stolberg 17 November 1944.
Then image: Private collection / Allen Bartell- Sgt John Claussen
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Stolberg (1)
German soldiers are taken prisoner in Stolberg by the US 104th Infantry Division “Timberwolves” in November 1944 during Operation Queen.
Then image: LIFE magazine / John Florea
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Gressenich – Römerstraße (3)
Gathering of US soldiers on the corner of the Römerstraße and the Schevenhütterstraße in Gressenich during Operation Queen, November 1944.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – John Florea
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Beggendorf (5)
Men of the 2nd Arm. Div., 9th U.S Army, inspect and refuel their tank prior to moving out in the new advance inside Germany. (Beggendorf/November 17, 1944)
Then image: ?
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Gressenich – Rottstraße
American troops and a tank move through a wreckage strewn street in Gressenich, Germany captured during Operation Queen in 1944.
Then image : AP Wirephoto
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