Defense against German V-1 rocket attacks on Antwerp, Belgium during World War II. Allied artillery crew shoots down a V-1 Flying Bomb at night. V-1 rocket explodes mid-air. Dark puffs of smoke and explosion from anti-V-1 rocket defense is scattered over the sky. A V-1 flying bomb evades artillery fire. Belgian civilians and children watch artillery fire at V-1 Flying Bomb. United States gunners load shells into anti-aircraft gun. A V-1 rocket spins downwards after getting hit by anti-aircraft gun.
United States soldiers defend the city of Antwerp during World War II. A United States anti aircraft gunner soldier stacks shells in crates together. A group of artillery gunners huddle around a small bonfire during winter. A soldier rubs his hands from the cold. Cold feet shaking off dirt from muddy ground. View of damaged Antwerp, Belgium. Smoke rises out of a building hit by a V-1 rocket. A storefront on fire. Civilians watch the damage caused by V-1 and V-2 rockets in Antwerp. A Belgian woman crying. Two children peer from a window. Three boys inspect a rocket fragment from a blast site. A woman fixes a girl’s hair after a blast. An anti-aircraft gun tilted towards the sky. Man pulls out shells. German soldiers advance. Commander of the German 5th Panzer Army, General Hasso von Manteuffel, conversing with officer of the 116th Panzer Division. Other German officers confer as well. German motorized infantry mobilizes to Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. German soldiers sit on top of a moving Panzer IV tank covered with camouflage. German infantry troops walk alongside burning American vehicles. German and United States soldiers firing rifles from behind small hill. Artillery crew load more shells into howitzer. Anti-aircraft guns firing into enemy positions. Belgian civilians work to repair damaged infrastructure in Antwerp Port after German defeat. Bags of flour are unloaded at Antwerp Port. Dock workers working in Antwerp Port. United States Army trucks transport materiel from Antwerp Port to the Western Front. Military Police personnel direct traffic on a street.
A German V-1 rocket in flight heading towards Antwerp. United States anti-aircraft guns fire at incoming V-1 rockets Belgium during World War II. Gunners load more shells into the howitzer. Smoke rises from anti-aircraft gun fire. Dark puffs of smoke and explosion from anti-V-1 rocket defense is scattered over the sky. A V-1 rocket explodes mid-air after being shot by anti-aircraft gun. Diagram shows the effectiveness of anti-aircraft guns in preventing V-1 rockets from hitting their targets. A soldier neatly arranges empty spent anti-aircraft shells on the ground.
Street scenes in Antwerp Belgium at end of World War II show the façade of Antwerp Central Station (Antwerpen-Centraal, Koningin Astridplein 27, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium). The Boerentoren, or “Farmer’s Tower” (Boerentoren, Schoenmarkt 35 2000 Antwerp Belgium), in Antwerp city center. Trams on the street. Pedestrians pass by the Hôtel Métropole ( Leysstraat 27/29, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium). A streetlight in front of the Hôtel Métropole. The Het Steen (Steenplein 1, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium) medieval fortress of Antwerp. Belgian civilians visit a park. A horse-drawn cart and some automobiles move on the road in Antwerp city center. The two uneven gothic towers of the Cathedral of Our Lady (Groenplaats 21, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium) are seen in the background.
Gunners with a Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun west of Monschau, Germany during World War II. One of the gunners is holding a stack of shells. Snow-covered M10 tank destroyers of the 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion in defensive position in the woods. Snow covers the woods and trees. A soldier tosses shell cases near the tank destroyers. Tank crewmen talking to each other as they warm themselves at a fire. 602nd Engineers Camouflage Battalion (attached to 15th Engineers, 9th Rif Division) raise camouflage nets to screen road from German enemy observation. Cable spool at the back of a truck. Camouflage nets are raised up.
United States troops attend a religious service in the bivouac area in Les Avenanterres, Belgium during World War II. Kneeling soldiers stand up in the snow-covered forest. The hood of a jeep is used as an altar. The soldiers disperse after the service ended. Soldiers of the Hq Co, 3rd Battalion, 508th Infantry Parachute Regiment, 83rd Division AB Infantry leave the bivouac area and march on snowy road. A man walks toward a solitary house. Soldiers take refuge from the snow inside a partially destroyed stone house. Icicles hanging from the house’s roof. A soldier reads a paper. Soldier cleans M1919 Browning machine gun. Troops shaving their faces. A soldier cooks by heating an open can over fire.
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