Photos Taken in Belgium | World War II Database

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Infantry of British 50th (Northumbrian) Division moving up past a knocked-out German 88mm gun near 'Joe's Bridge' over the Meuse-Escaut Canal, Belgium, 16 Sep 1944	Montgomery addressing men of the British 15th (Scottish) Division during an investiture ceremony, Geel, Belgium, 16 Sep 1944

American C-47 aircraft flying over Gheel in Belgium on their way to the Netherlands for Operation Market Garden, 17 Sep 1944	British infantry carrying assault boats in preparation for crossing the Meuse-Escaut canal at Lille-St Hubert, Belgium, 19 Sep 1944

Montgomery and Ramsey at Montgomery's headquarters in Belgium during Operation Market Garden, 19 Sep 1944	M10 Wolverine tank destroyers of 75th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery of British 11th Armoured Division crossing a Bailey bridge over the Meuse-Escaut (Maas-Schelde) Canal at Lille St Hubert, Belgium, 20 Sep 1944

Vickers machine guns of 2nd Middlesex Regiment, British 3rd Division firing in support of troops crossing the Meuse-Escaut (Maas-Schelde) Canal at Lille-St. Hubert, Belgium, 20 Sep 1944	African-American US Army soldiers of 4185th Quartermaster Service Company unloading rations from a truck, Liege, Belgium, 1944

Hodges at Verviers, Belgium, 2 Oct 1944	King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s headquarters at Hamont-Achel, Belgium, 15 Oct 1944.

King George VI of the United Kingdom knighting General Miles Dempsey, investing him as a Knight Commander in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath at Montgomery’s headquarters at Hamont-Achel, Belgium, 15 Oct 1944.	Canadian General Guy Simonds, temporary commander of the First Canadian Army during Crerar’s illness, meeting with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in Belgium, 30 Oct 1944. Note the censor’s markings.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visiting the Lion’s Mound in Belgium, a memorial to the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. Montgomery is listening to a guide describing the movements of the armies during the battle, 30 Oct 1944.	Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery being presented with an historic Belgian sword by Belgian aristocrats in recognition of Montgomery’s liberation of their country, Brussels, Belgium, 6 Nov 1944.

P-38J Lightning aircraft of 370th Fighter Group, US 485th Fighter Squadron at the former Luftwaffe night fighter base at Florennes, Belgium, Oct-Dec 1944; note wrecked Me 210 aircraft in foreground	Actress Marlene Dietrich autographing wounded American Earl E. McFarland's cast, Belgium, 24 Nov 1944

The smoldering remains of a V-2 rocket attack, Teniers Square, Antwerp, Belgium, 27 Nov 1944	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.