Am 1. April 1936 wurden die seit dem 15. Januar 1936 Saarlautern genannte Stadt Saarlouis und die Gemeinden Fraulautern, Lisdorf, Picard und Schönbruch (Beaumarais) zur Stadt Saarlautern zusammengeschlossen.

Saarlautern

95th US Infantry Division

15. FEB 1945 Saarlautern

15. FEB 1945 Saarlautern

3 März 1945
Saarlautern,
Machine Gunners of the 26th INF DIV set up in the Debris of a Bombed Building

65th Infantry Division

17. März 1945 Saarlouis

MEN OF HEAVY WEAPONS COMPANY
OF 65TH INFANTRY DIVISION,
3RD U.S. ARMY, DASH ACROSS
EXPOSED SQUARE IN SAARLAUTERN,
GERMANY TO NEW POSITION. SIGNAL
CORPS CAMERAMAN, SECOND, RUNS
WITH THE MEN.

26th Infantry Division (Yankee  Division)

A heavy machine gun crew of the 328th Infantry regiment displaces forward up a shell-torn street in Saarlautern while  rifleman rush forward to clean out enemy soldiers who may have remained.

Saarlautern 03. März 1945

First, a couple of Machine gunners covering their buddies on a main street in Saaarlautern

a wide shot of the street with troops moving up

Haushaltwaren Paul Leinen

Note the wounded infantryman lying facedown in the middle of the street

The medic reaches him, patches him up, and begins helping him back

Westwall.- Bunker bei Saarlautern, ca. Herbst 1939

Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1979-020-18

Ludwigskirche of Saarlouis in 1945

Damaged houses in Saarlouis.

Saarlautern

Rubble lines the streets of Saarlouis in 1945 as the support units of the Third Army move through.

95.US Infantry Division  Nicknames Victory Division

1944, December 26

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