Ghosts of History Images
Operation Market Garden, Veghel.
Wounded German soldiers are rushed by Jeep & trailer to the aid station in Veghel
Operation Market Garden, Veghel
The square in front of the Church is used to repair damaged tanks.
September 17th, 1944. Operation Market Garden, Veghel.
Paratroopers escort German prisoners to a temporary enclosure near the Church.
September 19th, 1944 Operation Market Garden, Veghel.
Crowds celebrate the liberation of the town.
September 17th, 1944. Operation Market Garden, Veghel.
Locals help out hauling supplies from the dropzones.
September 17th, 1944. Operation Market Garden, Veghel.
Troopers of the 101 Airborne, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment march into Veghel
September 17th, 1944. Operation Market Garden, Veghel
Four medics from the 326th Airborne Medical company pose with a local resistance fighter in Veghel
September 19th, 1944 Operation Market Garden, Veghel.
Crowds celebrate the liberation of the town as a medical Jeep passes by.
A group of civilians and GI's in front of the notary office of Trévières Street Octave Mirbeau.
The entrance is decorated with French and allied flags
place Marie Ravenel à Cherbourg
Cherbourg, avenue de Paris, ancien Poste de Police, jardin Public.
Thanks (Merci) to Claude DeMeester who took the modern day photo, and Patrick Peccatte & Michel Le Querrec from 'La Bataille de Normandie en photos'
France, 1944.
Rue des Fossés Plissons à Domfront (Orne)
German soldiers surrendering
Captain WH Hooper, who commands the Company of the 314th IR of the 79th IUS D and some of his men surround a column of German prisoners.
Column takes a southerly direction, it will join the POW camps located on the plateau of the Mountain Roule, near the farm of Fieffe.
Grandcamp-Maisy (Calvados) dans la cour de l'église, rue du Commandant Philippe Kieffer.
Flanked by units of a 9th Air force, citizens of a village behind the front lines in Normandy celebrate their traditional Bastille Day for the first time in over four years. Here they honor their war dead of 1914-1918 and 1939-1944.
rue Armand Levéel à Cherbourg
Story behind the photo;
26 June 1944, German soldier lying dead on a sidewalk in front of the old café Etasse, Rue Armand Levéel to Cherbourg.
Rue Dom Pedro, civilians and American soldiers tear down the sign indicating the headquarters of the Todt organization in Cherbourg.
At la Madeleine, a hamlet of the town of Sainte Marie du Mont, Utah Beach area.
A group of U.S. Fire Engineering leaving the chapel.
Saint Marcouf (Manche)
Auschwitz I, January 27th 1945
Russian soldiers with prisoners of Block 19, the quarantine blockhouse in the medical section of the camp.