PHOTOS THEN

Fighting in the rubble of Prüm

4th Division sniper patrol in Prüm

Wirbelscheid

US armor passing through Wirbelscheid

Prüm in ruins, 1 March 1945

Courtesy Ray van Zeschau

Westwall near Prüm

US troops rest in nazi pillbox

4th Division troops move through Prüm, 1 March 45

Courtesy Ray van Zeschau

11th Armored Division attack towards Fleringen

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

German prisoners carry a wounded GI over the Prüm river, Dausfelder Mühle

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Mainsquare in Prüm

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Prüm river line at Neuendorf

Trench system on the east side of the Prüm river, dug in the pre-war years

4th division soldiers in Brandscheid

Niesenberg, wounded and dead GI

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Niesenberg, 3 March 1945

Prüm, Ritzstrasse

Siegfried cinema

4th Division troops constructed a cinema build by salvaged canvas and empty shell boxes near Prüm

Prüm, destroyed NSDAP office

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Weinsheim

View towards Baselt

Oos, 9 March 1945

US jeep hit by mine

Prüm before the war

Dausfelder Mühle, 28 February 1945

Prisoners and guards duck for cover

Weinsheim

US armor moving through the Kahlbach valley

Dragon's teeth at Brandscheid

Siegfried line at Brandscheid

Bleialf

Supply drop north of Bleialf

Prüm after the war

Bleialf

Supply drop north of Bleialf

Oos river crossing

US troops crossing the Oos river

Along the Prüm river line

Machinegun position of "M" Company, 22nd Infantry

US positions near Brandscheid

12th Infantry crossing the Mon creek at Sellerich

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

22nd Infantry in Prüm

Wirbelscheid

Men and armor in Wirbelscheid

German prisoners near Dausfeld

70th US Tank Battalion moving towards Tafel

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Attack towards Baselt and Kramberg

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Prüm river line at Olzheim

Trench system on the east side of the Prüm river, dug in the pre-war years

22nd Infantry men near Tettenbusch

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Destroyed Hetzer in the Tiergartenstrasse, Prüm

Source Klaus Ritter

Bleialf

Supply drop north of Bleialf

CCB rolls through Prüm

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Destroyed postoffice in Prüm

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Germans shelling the area near Baselt

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives

Destroyed railwaystation of Prüm

Source Klaus Ritter / US Archives