Please use the timestamps at the bottom of the description to navigate between recordings.

These are a series of audio recordings taken of fighting in the Netherlands in late 1944, which I found and re-uploaded from the Imperial War Museum online collection under their non-commercial license.

As far as I am aware are some of the only recordings taken of fighting in the North-West European campaign of 1944-45, and have never been uploaded anywhere else before.

The clips were all recorded by the British Army Film and Photographic Unit, some of them recorded by Peter Handford. Most of them were recorded during the Battle of Overloon in late 1944.

Clips/Sources:
0:00
(GERMAN ARTILLERY, MORTAR AND SPANDAU MG 42 MACHINE GUNFIRE AND BRITISH BREN GUNFIRE NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS) 7547
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

7:40
(GERMAN SHELLL AND MORTAR FIRE AND SPANDAU MG 42 MACHINE GUN FIRE, NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS, 1410) 7550
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

11:10
(GERMAN NEBELWERFER MORTAR FIRE NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS,) 7555
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

12:43
(BRITISH AND GERMAN MACHINE GUN FIRE NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS) 7546
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

15:28
(GERMAN NEBELWERFER MULTI-BARRELLLED MORTAR FIRING NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS, 14101944) 7548
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

15:58
(GERMAN NEBELWERFER MORTAR FIRE NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS, 14101944) 7565
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

17:24
(GERMAN ARTILLERY FIRE NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS, 14101944) 7557
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

18:52
(GERMAN SHELLING AND BRITISH CHURCHILL TANKS FIRING NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS, 14101944) 7556
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

20:32
(BRITISH CHURCHILL TANKS FIRING NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS, 14101944) 7562
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

21:17
(BRITISH ARTILLERY BARRAGE AND GERMAN MORTAR FIRE NEAR OVERLOON, NETHERLANDS) 7558
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

24:09
SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS MARCHING WITH PIPER PLAYING, HEESCH, NETHERLANDS, 1/11/1944 7624
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...