December 44 Historical Museum - La Gleize, Belgium

[Koppi]

Today another photo report about a museum about the Battle of the Bulge in 1944/45.
Please click the link to see more pictures. English summary at the end of the german text.

https://thrifles.blogspot.com/2025/01/december-44-historical-museum-la-gleize.html

[has.been]

Thanks for taking the time to post these pictures.

[fred]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing.

I’d not realised the FG42 looked so half-finished as a gun!

[CapnJim]

Nice pics.  Thanks for posting.

I'll have to go back through my photos when we (the officers in my battalion) did our Bulge tour in the mid-80s.  I may have gone to that museum.

And seeing that King Tiger brought back memories.  I was at Fort Knox, KY when the Patton Museum obtained a working King Tiger, in '91.  Seeing one of those buggers trundling down a post street is an impressive sight...

[SJWi]

A word or warning to travellers to the Bulge. It has some great Museums but from memory opening times from October through to Easter are pretty limited so check before you go. Back in the '90s myself and a mate drove 2 hours to a Museum to the south of the Bulge only to find it  had closed. Apparently the rather superb collection had been bought up and shipped to the US.

[Koppi]

Thanks for your comments.