World War 2 pictures

On this page I will keep adding pictures of the 9th Infantry Division, taken during World War 2. Please note that these pictures can all be obtained via the National Archives. I do not own the rights to the pictures unless noted otherwise. Click on any of the pictures to open a gallery. Press the ESC “Escape” button on your keyboard  to go back to the website. Feel free to contact me if you have any 9th Infantry Division pictures to add, and I will be happy to add them here. Enjoy the pictures.

9th Infantry Division man shares a smoke in Normandy 1944

9th Infantry Division guard German prisoners near Dreiborn, Germany 1945

9th Infantry Division March in Cherbourg 1944

Master Sergeant Michael Puzak of the 39th Infantry Regiment checks a map on the hood of a jeep.

9th Infantry Division men take cover near the seawall on Utah Beach in June 1944

Vive la France! Frenchman and 9th Infantry Division soldier in France, 1944.

9th Infantry Division soldier takes a German prisoner

Men of the 9th Infantry Division help to modify a tank.

9th Infantry Division man

9th Infantry Division men get lessons in tank recognition

Men of the 39th Infantry Regiment at Rue Fond Leval in Sprimont, Belgium on September 9th, 1944

9th Infantry Division and support tanks at a roadblock near Harze in Belgium, September 1944

9th ID machine gunner keeping an eye on the Urfstausee.

Churchill inspects 39th Infantry Regiment men

Religious Service by Chaplain Vanholm for men of 3/39th

Father De Laura Mass

9th Infantry Division Mortar Team near Saint Sauveur Le Vicomte, Normandy, France on June 16th 1944.

3rd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment in Dreiborn, Germany

Men of 39th Infantry Regiment ride along on tanks in the Hurtgen area.

Men of the 47th Infantry Regiment walk into Cherbourg, France 1944.

9th Division men check a knocked out German tank in France 1944

9th ID men cooking a meal

9th Infantry Division men carefully enter Fussenich, Germany

9th Infantry Division men run for cover in Normandy 1944

39th Infantry Regiment soldier during the Normandy fighting

General Manton S. Eddy in a jeep on the 26th of July, 1944 at Hameau de La Courmiette.

A radio observation post of the 9thInfantry Division looks over the city of Cherbourg

9th Infantry Division men aid a German wounded soldier

9th Infantry Division Medic in Normandy, France in July 1944.

9th Infantry Division in Remagen, Germany, March 1945

9th Infantry Division men on the lookout during a battle

Chaplains of the 39th Infantry Regiment stand at attention, listening to a “Call to Memorial” speech in the town of Aichnach, Germany in 1945. Interesting to see their helmets with the AAA-O slogan and the holy cross.

French underground resistance members inform 9th Infantry Division men about German locations near Cherbourg, 1944.

Major Frank Gunn of 1st Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment, shows a picture of a German officer believed to have been the head of the Cherbourg Region to Major General Manton S. Eddy. Both men are smiling at the picture, which was found in the captured German headquarters in Cherbourg. Picture taken on July 1st, 1944.

A member of 1st Bn 47th IR leaps over an obstacle in the German city of Gross Vernich.

9th Infantry Division men firing at the enemy near Morsbach, Germany

Schevenhutte, Germany, where men of the 47th Infantry Regiment stayed for several weeks in 1944.

9th Infantry Division man in Normandy 1944

39th Infantry Regiment guard German prisoners in Cherbourg, France 1944.

Men of 2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment on 16 August 1944 in France. Private Rovert Dawkin is sticking his knife into Hitler’s portret.

Men of the 39th Infantry Regiment walk through the town of Le Grais in France on the 16th of August, 1944.