The Siegfried Line
The Our River
Map II Pursuit to the Border 26 August-11 September 1944
FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY AND GENERAL EISENHOWER during an informal discussion at Montgomery's headquarters in France early in September 1944.
FIELD MARSHAL MODEL
FIELD MARSHAL VON RUNDSTEDT
GENERAL HODGES
THIRTEEN COMMANDERS OF THE WESTERN FRONT photographed in Belgium, 10 October 1944. Front row, left to right: General Patton, General Bradley, General Eisenhower, General Hodges, Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson. Second row: Maj. Gen. William B. Kean, Maj. Gen. Charles E. Corlett, Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Maj. Gen. Leonard P. Gerow, Maj. Gen. Elwood R. Quesada. Third row: Maj. Gen. Leven C. Allen, Brig. Gen. Charles C. Hart, Brig. Gen. Truman C. Thorson.
CAPTURED PANZERFAUST
CAPTURED NEBELWERFER
PLAN OF TYPICAL GERMAN PILLBOX
TYPICAL PILLBOX. Above (left) exterior, showing door with firing embrasure. Interior of firing embrasure at right. Below (left) bunk area, and (right) ventilation device.
Map III V Corps Hits the West Wall 11-19 September 1944
Map IV Breaching the West Wall South of Aachen VII Corps 12-29 September 1944
GENERAL GEROW
DRAGON'S TEETH near Brandscheid. The wooded section at upper left is the edge of the Schnee Eifel.
WALLENDORF CIVILIANS strive to save their belongings from the burning town after German troops have left.
GENERAL COLLINS
GENERAL BRANDENBERGER
TASK FORCE LOVELADY passes through the dragon's teeth near Roetgen, 15 September.
REMAINS OF A PILLBOX, showing massive construction.
Map 1 Drive From the Albert Canal to the West Wall XIX Corps 10-19 September 1944
GENERAL CORLETT
PORTION OF FORT EBEN EMAEL
THE ALBERT CANAL, as seen from a machine gun emplacement in Fort Eben Emael. (Captured film.)
MARKET-GARDEN
GENERAL BRERETON
Map V Invasion from the Sky Operation MARKET-GARDEN
GENERAL STUDENT
GENERAL TAYLOR
THE DUTCH WELCOME THE 506TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY.
GENERAL GAVIN and General Dempsey (on left) confer during Operation MARKET-GARDEN.
82D AIRBORNE DIVISION DROP near Grave.
DUTCH FARMER NEAR ZON gives paratroopers a lift to their assembly area.
HELL'S HIGHWAY. Wrecked British supply trucks along the hot contested route.
NIJMEGEN HIGHWAY BRIDGE
Map 2 The Battle of the Schelde 2 October-8 November 1944
GENERAL VON ZANGEN
MEN OF THE 104TH DIVISION dig foxholes near Standdaarbuiten.
Map 3 Operations in the Peel Marshes 29 September-3 December 1944
USING A DRAINAGE DITCH FOR COVER, an infantryman carries a message forward in the Peel Marshes area.
Aachen
Map VI XIX Corps Breaks Through the West Wall 2-7 October 1944
PRACTICING FLAME THROWER TECHNIQUE for reducing pillboxes.
ABANDONED CROSSING at the Wurm River.
RIMBURG CASTLE, showing moat in the foreground.
SLAG PILE AND TOWER used by Germans for observation in Übach
Map 4 Encirclement of Aachen 7-20 October 1944
GERMAN BOY weeps over the few possessions saved from his home outside Aachen.
CIVILIAN REFUGEES LEAVE AACHEN
RIFLEMAN in burning Aachen.
COLONEL WILCK and his headquarters group after their surrender.
AACHEN MUNSTER, popularly known as the Charlemagne Cathedral.
VIEW OF RUINED AACHEN
Urft Dam
Map 5 The Roer River Dams
SCHWAMMENAUEL DAM
Map 6 The First Attack on Schmidt 9th Division 6-16 October 1944
Map 7 The Second Attack on Schmidt 28th Division 2-9 November 1944
Map 8 Tanks Along the Kall Trail
KALL TRAIL, looking toward Vossenack. Note thrown tank tracks.
KALL TRAIL, showing the Kommerscheidt side of the gorge in the background.
WEASEL (M29 Cargo Carrier), similar to those used for evacuating wounded, pulls jeep out of the mud.
The Hürtgen Forest
GENERAL SIMPSON
A WINTER OVERCOAT REACHES THE FRONT LINES.
GENERALS BRADLEY, EISENHOWER, AND GEROW making a front-line inspection early in November.
GENERAL VON MANTEUFFEL
Map VII The Hürtgen Forest 16 November-9 December 1944
REST PERIOD BEHIND THE LINES
Map VIII Drive to the Roer 16 November-9 December 1944
155-MM. SELF-PROPELLED GUN bombarding Gressenich.
AMERICAN TANK BURNING outside Hamich.
STRUGGLING UP a wooded hillside.
V CORPS ROCKET LAUNCHERS bombarding German positions.
ENGINEERS REPAIR A ROAD in the Hürtgen Forest, 25 November.
TANK ATTACHED TO THE 8TH DIVISION MOVES THROUGH HÜRTGEN.
A SEA OF MUD in the Hürtgen Forest.
VETERANS OF THE HÜRTGEN FOREST
MEDICS aid a wounded soldier in the woods.
INFANTRY AND TANKS MOVE THROUGH SMALL TRUCK FARMS NEAR HUECHELN.
THE FRENZERBURG
The Roer Plain
GENERAL MCLAIN
DEVASTATED DÜRWISS, saturated by Allied bombs.
Map VIII Drive to the Roer 16 November-9 December 1944
GENERAL GILLEM
CAPTURED GERMAN TIGER (MARK VI) TANK with temporary U.S. markings. Note 88-mm. gun with flash hider.
BRITISH FLAIL TANK beating the road to explode mines.
COLUMN OF BRITISH CHURCHILL TANKS on a road near Geilenkirchen.
BRITISH FLAME-THROWING CROCODILE (MK-7) TANKS in action.
ENTRANCE TO SWIMMING POOL adjacent to the Sportplatz.
Winter Battlefield
Map IX The Approaches to Düren 10-16 December 1944
MEN OF THE 331ST INFANTRY advance on Gey.
Map 9 Objective: the Roer River Dams, V Corps 13-15 December 1944
MEN OF THE 2D DIVISION move through the Monschau Forest.
GENERAL MIDDLETON
Map X The Siegfried Line Campaign 11 September-15 December 1944