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Americans capture Fort Obergentringen and turn its guns on Germans in Thionville, France, during World War II
American soldiers of the U.S. 90th Infantry Division, walking atop captured Fort Obergentringen, Near Thionville, on the west side of the Moselle River, in World War 2. Next, the Fort's German Krupp 105mm guns are seen firing numerous shells at German positions in Thionville, east of the river. American soldiers with binoculars observe the shell strikes from the fort. Smoke rising from the shelling. [Note: A September 17, 1944 wireless report about the fort's capture , to the New York Times, by Frederick Grahamby, stated that "The fort's name is Gingringen and from 1870 to 1919 it belonged to Germany." However, it is actually Fort Obergentringen (Fort Guentrange) on the hills of Guentrange, overlooking Thionville, and built in 1899.]
American soldiers using field telephones at the fortress of Guentrange overlooking Thionville, France, during World War II.
American soldiers of th 90th Infantry Divisionat, at the fortress of Guentrange (Fort Obergentringen) in Thionville, France, during World War 2. The town of Thionville. A cluster of buildings in the town. Smoke rising from certain areas in the town. High walls of the main barracks of the fortress south of the Maginot Line in Thionville, built by the Germans when they occupied Lorraine after 1871. An iron palisade in front of the main barracks of the fortress. Trees near the iron fence. People walk along a pathway beside the fence. American soldiers at the fortress. A couple of soldiers using a field telephone. The soldiers sit outside the entrance of the fortress and clean rifles. Krupp 105 mm guns at the fortress.
U.S. soldiers load white snow capes onto trucks in Thionville, France.
Activities of U.S. soldiers in Thionville, France during World War II. Buildings in the snow covered area. Men unload boxes from a truck and carry them to a building. They carry white snow capes from the building and load them into trucks.
French Red Cross workers make a Red Cross insignia and cut German flags in Thionville, France.
Activities of Red Cross workers in Thionville, France during World War II. French Red Cross workers make a large Red Cross insignia for U.S. medics. They use a sewing machine for making the insignia. Women cut German flags.
U.S. officers and a French woman collect vests at a Red Cross center in Thionville, France.
U.S. officers at a Red Cross center in Thionville, France during World War II. Officers seated in a jeep outside a Red Cross building in a snow covered area. A French woman comes out of the building carrying vests in hands. She sits in the jeep and the jeep leaves the area. Men and women walking in the snow covered area.
American troops welcomed in France, but suffer casualties when Germans counterattack in December 1944.
American troops welcomed in village, by Nuns and children, and in Paris, France, in August, 1944 during liberation of Paris. December 16, 1944, German counterattack causes American casualties. Dead and wounded shown being picked up on stretchers. American troops advancing across fields. Tanks and burning buildings. Americans fight in streets of town and from trenches, with snow on ground. Chaplain prays over body of fallen American soldier. More views of U.S. wounded on stretchers. German officers led by General Manteuffel planning actions. German home front civilian guards (Volkssturm national militia) seen on parade carrying rifles and Panzerfaust, dressed in civilian clothing. German Tiger II tanks ("King Tiger") of s.Pz.Abt.503 parade in a training area. German SS troops advance during the Battle of the Bulge. German V1 Flying bomb "buzz bomb" shown in flight. Smoke rises from buzz bomb strike on town. (World War II period).
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