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Verenigde Staten. German pillboxes blown up by U.S. engineers. Huge columns of black smoke and debris are thrown up as engineers of the Ninth U.S. Army blow up Nazi pillboxes near Geilenkirchen, Germany, Siegried Line strong point besieged and captured by American and British troops November 19, 1944.

Foto van Britse militair in besneeuwd bos die hout aan het hakken is. Op de achtergrond een meisje in burger. De Brit draagt een leather jerkin en baret.

Foto van twee Churchill tanks in open sneeuwlandschap. Tekst achterop: "Scenes in the new advance of the Second Army into Germany. Churchill tanks moving over the snow covered roads and countryside between Birgden and Waldenrath. they are going into the attack to cut the Heinsberg-Geilenkirchen Road"

Foto van Britse Bren Carrier in verwoest stadje. Tekst achterop: "New attack by British Second Army: Sittard area. On January 16, 1945, infantry and armour of the British Second Army launched a new attack on the German salient east of the Maas between Roermond and Geilenkirchen. Fair progress was made and initial objectives gained. Photo shows: British infantrymen driving enemy out of a village, the ...

U.S. troops use captured German half-track as ambulance. U.S. Army medical corpsmen unload a patient from an armored half-track ambulance made from a captured German half-track. A U.S. medical battalion used this converted vehicle in the Geilenkirchen area in germany in place of ambulances and jeeps.