Photographs from the Unknown
Private First Class Margerum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, walks the road throug a peaceful forest in Belgium, as he returns from the front lines. Bastogne area.
These signs were left behind by U.S. troops occupying the Belgian town of Malmedy before it was retaken by Germans in their counteroffensive.
On the lookout for German snipers, a squad of Third Army Infantryman move cautiously through the streets of Moircy, Belgium. Company C, 1st Battalion, 345 Regiment, 87th Infantry Division.
American Infantrymen trudge through the snow as they march along the edge of a woods near Iveldingen, Belgium, in the drive to recapture St. Vith. (Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, FUSA). 517th A/B Regiment, 7th Armored Division.
American Infantrymen of an armored division march up a road southeast of Born, Belgium. Note the height of the snow bank on either side of the road. Company C, 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division.
American soldiers of the 75th Division march along the snow-covered road on the way to cut off the St. Vith-Houffalize road in Belgium.
Infantrymen of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 30th Division, at the outskirts of Sart-Lez-St. Vith, (Rodt), Belgium, during their advance on St. Vith.
American troops drag a heavily loaded ammunition sled through the snow, as they move from an attack on Herresbach, Belgium. 1st Battalion, Company C, 325th Glider Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division.
Tanks and Infantrymen of the 82nd Airborne Division push through the snow towards their objective near Herresbach, Belgium. Company G, 740th Tank Battalion, 504th Regiment.
Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division move along a highway enroute to Herresbach, Belgium. (Company H). 504th Parachute Regiment.
Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division go by way of a fire-break in the woods, as they move forward towards Herresbach, Belgium. 504th Regiment.
Members of the 101st Airborne Division move out of Bastogne, Belgium, to drive the Germans, who have besieged them for ten days, out of a neighboring town. This photo was taken while Bastogne was still under siege.
Members of the 101st Airborne Division walk past dead comrades, killed during the Christmas Eve bombing of Bastogne, Belgium, the town in which this division was besieged for ten days. This photo was take Christmas day, 1944.
Bomb damage, the result of a German ten-day siege of the 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium.
Men of the 82nd Airborne Division move up a road through heavy fog, near Webormont, Belgium. (2nd Battalion, 325th Glider Regiment).
Generals of the 101st Airborne Division review the 101st Division in the town of Bastogne, Belgium. They are in front of "The Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st."
American ambulance waits outside a bombed building in Bastogne, Belgium, while a searcher looks for persons injured during the ten-day defense by the 101st Airborne Division.
Tanks of the 4th Armored Division, ready for action in the front lines. Bastogne, Belgium.
Tanks of the 42nd Armored Battalion, move in to attack. Mabompre, Belgium.
USS Grampus (SS-207) off Groton, Connecticut, while running trials, March 26, 1941.
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