Photos Taken in Belgium | World War II Database

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Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery using a Jeep as a platform to address the 7th Armoured Division (the “Desert Rats) at their headquarters at Bree, Belgium near the Dutch border, 30 Nov 1944.	American troops firing M1 Garand rifles near Bastogne, Belgium, circa Dec 1944	Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer (comparable to finance minister), meeting with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s headquarters in Belgium, 4 Dec 1944.	Dead American soldiers laying face down at a crossroad in Belgium, Dec 1944

Two US Army African-American soldiers carrying the body of another American soldier near Malmédy, Belgium, circa 17 Dec 1944	Major General Matthew Ridgway (left) and Major General James Gavin (right), Belgium, 19 Dec 1944	M36 Jackson tank destroyers of 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, US 82nd Airborne Division en route to attack a German position near Werbomont, Belgium, 20 Dec 1944	Troops of US 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, all vehicles lost in combat, manning the front line near Bastogne, Belgium, 20 Dec 1944

Two soldiers of US 101st Airborne Division manning a forward post near a road, near Bastogne, Belgium, 23 Dec 1944	Remains of German soldiers who attempted to attack the US 101st Airborne Division command post near Bastogne, Belgium, 25 Dec 1944	Troops of Company H, 3rd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment, US 82nd Airborne Division escorting a captured German SS soldier, Bra, Belgium, 25 Dec 1944; photo taken by 162nd Signal Photographic Company combat photographer Emil Edgren	Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and members of his staff stop on a Belgian road for a break, 27 Dec 1944. Note picnic set in trunk (boot) and the shadow of photographer Sgt John Morris.

Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe and Lieutenant Colonel Harry Kinnard II at Bastogne, Belgium, late Dec 1944	Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower, and George Patton at Bastogne, Belgium, late Dec 1944	US 5th Armored Regiment tankers gathering around a fire and opening Christmas presents, near Eupen, Belgium, 30 Dec 1944; note M4 Sherman tank	Private Paul Romanick of Battery B, 103rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion, US 1st Infantry Division cleaning 40mm anti-aircraft gun, Sourbrodt, Belgium, 31 Dec 1944; note 6 swastika symbols his 6 kills

Troops of US 101st Airborne Division moving out of Bastogne, Belgium, 31 Dec 1944	Troops of US 44th Armored Infantry Battalion and M4 Sherman tanks of US 6th Armored Division advancing toward German lines near Bastogne, Belgium, 31 Dec 1944	Corporal Lawrie Lever of RAF Mobile Repair Unit warming his hands with an air compressor which had just been used to service the engines of the Harrow aircraft in the background, Advanced Landing Ground B-56 Evere, Brussels, Belgium, 1945	Meteor F Mark III fighter of No. 616 Squadron RAF being pushed to its dispersal point at Advanced Landing Ground B-58 (Melsbroek Airfield), Belgium, 1945