If you like the work I do here on WW2 Wayfinder and would like to consider supporting the channel. My Patreon is: www.patreon.com/WW2Wayfinder?l=de Thanks, Jon.
Jon....it's Jay.... I'd like to contribute, but I am having one heck of a time trying to figure out.....how? :) Please advise. Thanks and take are......!!!
Although my personal preference is for the videos where you're walking the ground and talking and showing us then and now photos I'm still very much impressed by how you put together the old video footage with side by side photos of then and now. Very cool and a great tribute to the WW2 generation. Thanks for sharing! 😊
Excellent work, as usual. What you put together is no easy task and requires a LOT of research and time. Thank you so much for what you do. It is appreciated.
Thank you! Certainly a lot of time spent in archives and Google Earth as well as determining the most efficient way of getting to each spot. All part of the fun though!
Wow, another great then and now video. I have seen many of the then photos and video but did not know the locations. Thanks, Jon for sharing this video. Look forward to more.
Hope it was of use to see the locations side by side as that’s how I put them out on Facebook and always seems to go down well so wanted to try something similar for here.
Just discovered your channel and immediately subscribed! What an awesome “Then and Now” video that you have compiled! My grandfather was a Sgt in the US Army (134th Infantry). He received the Bronze Star for heroic service on the day of January 5, 1945 in Lutrebois, Belguim (Battle of the Bulge). So interesting seeing these pictures of where so much history was made by men of the “Greatest Generation”! Thank you!!
Thanks for this video. My father was attached to the 30th Infantry Division which fought in a number of the towns you showed. He was the chief interpreter in photo interpretation team #27 (Military Intelligence Service). They were attached to HQ company and worked with the G2.
An absolute amazing collection of Then & Now pictures Jon. Thank you very much sir. Was cool to see the then pictures of the buildings in the town square in Bastogne and match them to my now own pictures lol. A salute to the few WWII veterans that are still around and a salute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. 🫡🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦
2:41 & 3:37 & 3:51 its amazing how nature recovers and the trees survive but not the tanks guns and armoured cars they are sent for scrap. The villages destroyed and rebuilt. Love the music 🎶🎶 you used. Thank you.
Thank you Jon Really light the presentation it shows the struggles on both sides and the true grit of the men who fought there looking forward to the next Video.
Thanks mate. Hopefully useful to see the images side by side and along with the wartime footage from the same spots (where I’ve found it in the archives).
It’s always a rush to stand where these incredible actions took place. It’s something I’ve been doing for years since before I started the channel and it never gets old!
Outstanding work as always Jon, it must have taken ages to put all this together, but well worth it. I bet it gave you goosebumps walking the same ground as those soldiers of 80-odd years ago, I know it would me. All the best mate and a belated Happy New Year sir! Tony
Thank you Tony! It’s always a rush and quite humbling to stand where these incredible images were taken all those years ago, and knowing of the events that unfolded there.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and I hope to do more like this so it gives everyone time to really focus on the images and footage etc. I’ll still be doing my regular T&N episodes but wanted to try this to offer something a little different. Thanks again for all the support!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy this new style. It’s a great way for me to show all the still images I take on trips to Europe which I normally only post on Facebook.
@@WW2Wayfinder To be completely honest, I did miss your commentary in this one. However the stills as well as the film clips were outstanding as always. Thank you for posting them. Well done sir.
@@dale1956tiesjust keen to get more content out there and give people time to take the images in. However don’t worry plenty more of my waffle coming down the pipe😉
Pretty much cycled past most of those locations over the years. This was all my training ground when I was a pro cyclist. We were over in Bastogne this Christmas visiting old friends. The Ardennes is a place I truly love. You can cycle for miles without seeing soul . By the way, just sent you a photo of the tank in Houffalize. All the very best.
Très bon boulot! Avec en plus des images qu'on ne voit pas ailleurs. Au bout d'un moment, quand on a vu beaucoup de documentaires, on a l'impression d'avoir fait le tour de toutes les images d'époque; vous prouvez le contraire.
Jon - thanks for your hard work in putting together these Then and Now photographs. I always wonder how many of the soldiers on both sides of the Battle of the Bulge survived and went home after the end of the War. Do the residents of these towns and villages still find ordnance and other relics of this vicious struggle?
Thank you Sue! I know relics are still recovered on a somewhat regular basis. Less than in past decades of course but still happens. I personally didn’t find anything on my last trip but have in the past, such as an empty ammo can on the surface to the west side of Bastogne!
I have a couple pics of me visiting “Cobra King” when it was inside a motor pool bay being restored at the Ft. Knox museum, they have a storage area that’s an old motor pool so they have it stuffed with all kinds of tanks.
Brilliant work. Very surreal. I wonder how many of the people who live or work in those buildings now are even aware of what took place right outside their front door. Anyway, please keep producing this great content.
Thank you! I’ve spoken to several locals at various points and some are more aware than others, but they’re always very friendly and keen to help track down spots if they can!
Very nice compilation Jon! Love it. I'd be very interested in a video about the Burg Reuland / Ouren area, where the German 560 and 26 VG Division smashed through the 28th US Division. I visit that area frequently and in my youth I still found many things dating back to December 16 1944.
Has I look at these photos I often wonder if me dad is one of the U.S. solders in these prints. He passed in 2017 and was in the Bulge and Remagen (on the other side) before the bridge collaspe. Thanks for this video!
Would be magical if you did see him in one of these photos! There’s several images and footage documenting Remagen as well on my channel. What Division did he serve with?
The pause button is always an option as putting marks over the images (other than my logo which I do because people have stolen my work in the past) would detract from the experience of seeing them side by side.
WW2Wayfinder, next time double the time of the photos so we can have a better look. I can assure you that nobody would mind watching a 30 minutes long video because it is a pleasure to watch your videos!
If I don’t watermark my Now images then people steal my work. It’s happened on, Facebook and Instagram. It’s the same reason anyone watermarks anything they’ve done, so people can’t get a free ride at the creators expense.
Amazing how many Panthers and King Tigers the Germans lost in this offensive. I think they had something like 130 King Tigers involved and nearly all were lost, most due to misc failures and fuel/ammo shortages.
OUTSTANDING.....as always......!!!! Not to make you or anyone 'upset'.....the "Manderfeld" segment is puzzling to me? The WWII pictures and your pictures were taken just outside of Merlscheid and on the road to Lanzerath. We you listing that segment due to the fact that road would take you to Manderfeld? I ask, as I've driven that road and the road through Melscheid back to Hullscheid to Losheim....? Please.....NOT.....trying to be a jerk, I do NOT know eveything.....I just need clarification. Thanks!!!
The road section where you’d turn left if coming from Lanzerath to Merlscheid is marked as Manderfeld on Google Earth but having just checked again it also has the name tag of Hasenvenn with Manderfeld being further down the road. I think I was a little hasty there but I’ve always (now mistakenly) known it as Manderfeld. Thanks for pointing it out
Because I’ve had so much of my work stolen from Instagram, TH-cam and Facebook in the past. It’s the same reason why anyone watermarks anything. So it can’t be repurposed. If someone wants to do the same they need to get off their backside and put the hard work in, but they’re not getting a free ride at my expense. My Now images aren’t available in the public domain until I put them out there.
A battlefield without the dead is a lie. Honour the dead and respect them by showing what war is really about, not this clinical gaslighting that the dead won't be shown out of respect. Truth is a casualty of war
No. If you want to get off seeing pictures of dead soldiers you can google it. Anyone with half a brain knows in war people are killed. Anyone with a fully functioning brain knows they were someone’s son and a level of respect is owed, and to not revel in images showing their lifeless bodies.
If you like the work I do here on WW2 Wayfinder and would like to consider supporting the channel.
My Patreon is:
www.patreon.com/WW2Wayfinder?l=de
Thanks, Jon.
Jon....it's Jay.... I'd like to contribute, but I am having one heck of a time trying to figure out.....how? :) Please advise. Thanks and take are......!!!
Jon, Hi! This is some of your BEST work. Thank you
Excellent work Jon. Thank you.
Although my personal preference is for the videos where you're walking the ground and talking and showing us then and now photos I'm still very much impressed by how you put together the old video footage with side by side photos of then and now. Very cool and a great tribute to the WW2 generation. Thanks for sharing! 😊
Excellent work, as usual. What you put together is no easy task and requires a LOT of research and time. Thank you so much for what you do. It is appreciated.
Thank you!
Certainly a lot of time spent in archives and Google Earth as well as determining the most efficient way of getting to each spot. All part of the fun though!
Fantastic video and fabulous choice of soundtrack!
Sehr gut, wie immer ! Respekt to WW2 Wayfinder from Germany.
vielen Dank! Freut mich wirklich, dass es Ihnen gefallen hat!
Wow, another great then and now video. I have seen many of the then photos and video but did not know the locations. Thanks, Jon for sharing this video. Look forward to more.
Hope it was of use to see the locations side by side as that’s how I put them out on Facebook and always seems to go down well so wanted to try something similar for here.
Amazing job well done Jon! 2:15 Rare Steel Wheel Panther G variant!
Brilliant Jon! New level ... You've raised the bar again
Sehr gute Arbeit
Danke!
Excellent now and then compilations as per usual, once again thanks 👍
Thanks Robbo! Glad you enjoyed it!
Just discovered your channel and immediately subscribed! What an awesome “Then and Now” video that you have compiled! My grandfather was a Sgt in the US Army (134th Infantry). He received the Bronze Star for heroic service on the day of January 5, 1945 in Lutrebois, Belguim (Battle of the Bulge). So interesting seeing these pictures of where so much history was made by men of the “Greatest Generation”! Thank you!!
Oh thank you! And welcome to the channel!
Have you had a chance to visit the Ardennes? If you haven’t and need any recommendations please let me know!
@ Appreciate it! No, I have never been to Europe, but being a history buff, it is definitely on my bucket list!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, this is really wonderful.
Thank you Doug! Glad you enjoyed it mate
Thanks for this video. My father was attached to the 30th Infantry Division which fought in a number of the towns you showed. He was the chief interpreter in photo interpretation team #27 (Military Intelligence Service). They were attached to HQ company and worked with the G2.
Well done!
Another amazing video. This is the ONLY channel where I look forward to new content.
Thank you! Really kind of you to say so!
An absolute amazing collection of Then & Now pictures Jon. Thank you very much sir. Was cool to see the then pictures
of the buildings in the town square in Bastogne and match them to my now own pictures lol. A salute to the few WWII veterans that are still around and a salute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. 🫡🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦
Troy thank you Sir! Glad you enjoyed it and it’s going to be the first of many in this theme along with the more regular T&N episodes I do.
2:41 & 3:37 & 3:51 its amazing how nature recovers and the trees survive but not the tanks guns and armoured cars they are sent for scrap. The villages destroyed and rebuilt.
Love the music 🎶🎶 you used. Thank you.
Thanks!
Thank you!!!!
Thank you Jon Really light the presentation it shows the struggles on both sides and the true grit of the men who fought there looking forward to the next Video.
Thanks mate. Hopefully useful to see the images side by side and along with the wartime footage from the same spots (where I’ve found it in the archives).
@@WW2Wayfinder Yes it did help
Thank you for this. Must have been amazing for you to step on the very ground where history was made. The accompanying music was perfect.
It’s always a rush to stand where these incredible actions took place. It’s something I’ve been doing for years since before I started the channel and it never gets old!
Awesome job on finding the various locations. It's really neat to see history and then compare it how the same spots are today.
Stunning way you put the photos together,well done mate.
Haunting imagery. Thank you for another brilliant video! 🙌
Great format, has the feel of turning the pages of a history book. Thanks for a splendid presentation.
Thank you!
I’ll have more like like this from other locations later in the year!
Thanks Jon! Great work as always!
Thanks for all your hard work! 👍
Thank you for another great one!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!!! I’ll have a few more to come like this over the course of year!
Thank you! Amazing video honoring an amazing battle in American military history.
👏👏👏👏 Thank you!
Thanks Mike 😉
Brilliant as always jon so well put together thank you great work.
Thanks Terry!
More of the same to come later in the year from some locations!
Thank you for this, very incredibly done!
Really appreciate what you provide for us all.
Just happy I can share my passion for this period of history with so many like minded people 😃
I very much appreciate your channel and the effort you take to relate past history to today. How you do it is a mystery to me.
That was fantastic! I love your channel, thank you!
Great detective work. Thank you.
Outstanding work as always Jon, it must have taken ages to put all this together, but well worth it. I bet it gave you goosebumps walking the same ground as those soldiers of 80-odd years ago, I know it would me.
All the best mate and a belated Happy New Year sir! Tony
Thank you Tony!
It’s always a rush and quite humbling to stand where these incredible images were taken all those years ago, and knowing of the events that unfolded there.
Absolutely brilliant stuff Jon. Very much appreciated. I had a trip out there in December, already looking forward to going back.
The Ardennes is wonderful isn’t it. Still so much history to be discovered there and still relatively unchanged in many areas.
Jon, this episode was really different,also liked the choice of music. Well done Sir !!!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and I hope to do more like this so it gives everyone time to really focus on the images and footage etc. I’ll still be doing my regular T&N episodes but wanted to try this to offer something a little different.
Thanks again for all the support!
Cool picture! The one where only the tree has grown is really cool. At the 1:20 mark.
Love the Then & Now episodes.
Thank you!
Hope you enjoy this new style. It’s a great way for me to show all the still images I take on trips to Europe which I normally only post on Facebook.
@@WW2Wayfinder To be completely honest, I did miss your commentary in this one. However the stills as well as the film clips were outstanding as always. Thank you for posting them. Well done sir.
@@dale1956tiesjust keen to get more content out there and give people time to take the images in. However don’t worry plenty more of my waffle coming down the pipe😉
Great work! Nice to see and feel. Greetz from Holland
Thank you!
Great video, thank you for making it.
Another great video from a great page
Wow..Excellent video. Thank you.
Thank you!
Pretty much cycled past most of those locations over the years. This was all my training ground when I was a pro cyclist. We were over in Bastogne this Christmas visiting old friends. The Ardennes is a place I truly love. You can cycle for miles without seeing soul . By the way, just sent you a photo of the tank in Houffalize. All the very best.
Thanks Carl! I saw your email and have replied! Love what they’ve done with the Panther at Houfallize
Très bon boulot! Avec en plus des images qu'on ne voit pas ailleurs. Au bout d'un moment, quand on a vu beaucoup de documentaires, on a l'impression d'avoir fait le tour de toutes les images d'époque; vous prouvez le contraire.
Brilliant work.👍
Thank you!
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Bravo! Excellent music choices. Thank you.
Eye opening, wonderful, horrible, majestic, and reality, Very cool.
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed this one. Hoping to get more compiled like this for later in the year.
good work WW2W
Very nice compilation. Of course there are many more places and photos not shown in this video. Keep up the good work!
Jon - thanks for your hard work in putting together these Then and Now photographs. I always wonder how many of the soldiers on both sides of the Battle of the Bulge survived and went home after the end of the War. Do the residents of these towns and villages still find ordnance and other relics of this vicious struggle?
Thank you Sue!
I know relics are still recovered on a somewhat regular basis. Less than in past decades of course but still happens. I personally didn’t find anything on my last trip but have in the past, such as an empty ammo can on the surface to the west side of Bastogne!
@@WW2Wayfinder Good luck for future finds! But they are also sad and haunting relics, too.
I have a couple pics of me visiting “Cobra King” when it was inside a motor pool bay being restored at the Ft. Knox museum, they have a storage area that’s an old motor pool so they have it stuffed with all kinds of tanks.
Brilliant work. Very surreal. I wonder how many of the people who live or work in those buildings now are even aware of what took place right outside their front door. Anyway, please keep producing this great content.
Thank you!
I’ve spoken to several locals at various points and some are more aware than others, but they’re always very friendly and keen to help track down spots if they can!
Very nice compilation Jon! Love it. I'd be very interested in a video about the Burg Reuland / Ouren area, where the German 560 and 26 VG Division smashed through the 28th US Division. I visit that area frequently and in my youth I still found many things dating back to December 16 1944.
Awesome. If you’ve done Then and Now’s in this format before, I’ve missed it.
Has I look at these photos I often wonder if me dad is one of the U.S. solders in these prints. He passed in 2017 and was in the Bulge and Remagen (on the other side) before the bridge collaspe.
Thanks for this video!
Would be magical if you did see him in one of these photos!
There’s several images and footage documenting Remagen as well on my channel.
What Division did he serve with?
@WW2Wayfinder I may be able to obtain that information and relay it to you here. And yes I am a subscriber.
Superb work Jon as always. Top pics and comparisons 👏🏻🪖🦅
Thanks mate
Put a red x on the old photo and in the same place on the new photo. For example, a house. It makes orientation easier. 👍👍❤
The pause button is always an option as putting marks over the images (other than my logo which I do because people have stolen my work in the past) would detract from the experience of seeing them side by side.
WW2Wayfinder, next time double the time of the photos so we can have a better look. I can assure you that nobody would mind watching a 30 minutes long video because it is a pleasure to watch your videos!
Fabulous 👌
Thank you!!
😲what a great compilation 👌🏼🙏🏼🫡
Thank you!
Brilliant
Thank you!!
You can see the witness trees.
Amazing isn’t it to see some of the trees still there after all those years!
Great then and now footage. Much is still the same.
From india ❤
Thank you!
My uncle was killed in the assault on Fosse, Belgium on January 3rd. 82nd, 505 PIR, I Company.
Sorry to hear that.
A really nice collection of T&N pics. Wish you hadn't put your watermark on the images though.
If I don’t watermark my Now images then people steal my work. It’s happened on, Facebook and Instagram. It’s the same reason anyone watermarks anything they’ve done, so people can’t get a free ride at the creators expense.
Amazing how many Panthers and King Tigers the Germans lost in this offensive. I think they had something like 130 King Tigers involved and nearly all were lost, most due to misc failures and fuel/ammo shortages.
2:45 is the spot they were testing anti-tank weapons on the Tiger II.
That’s the one! Tiger 104 with men from most likely the 504th PIR testing Panzerfausts against it!
OUTSTANDING.....as always......!!!! Not to make you or anyone 'upset'.....the "Manderfeld" segment is puzzling to me? The WWII pictures and your pictures were taken just outside of Merlscheid and on the road to Lanzerath. We you listing that segment due to the fact that road would take you to Manderfeld? I ask, as I've driven that road and the road through Melscheid back to Hullscheid to Losheim....? Please.....NOT.....trying to be a jerk, I do NOT know eveything.....I just need clarification. Thanks!!!
The road section where you’d turn left if coming from Lanzerath to Merlscheid is marked as Manderfeld on Google Earth but having just checked again it also has the name tag of Hasenvenn with Manderfeld being further down the road.
I think I was a little hasty there but I’ve always (now mistakenly) known it as Manderfeld.
Thanks for pointing it out
No Jon, but lots of tanks . . . Nice choice of music, too.
Why are you watermarking so large? Super annoying placement. These are probably all available in public domain
Because I’ve had so much of my work stolen from Instagram, TH-cam and Facebook in the past. It’s the same reason why anyone watermarks anything. So it can’t be repurposed. If someone wants to do the same they need to get off their backside and put the hard work in, but they’re not getting a free ride at my expense.
My Now images aren’t available in the public domain until I put them out there.
It didn't change all that much? Even the same tree is still there albeit much bigger.
It’s amazing to see the same trees in some of the images isn’t it!
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Thank you!
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A battlefield without the dead is a lie. Honour the dead and respect them by showing what war is really about, not this clinical gaslighting that the dead won't be shown out of respect. Truth is a casualty of war
No. If you want to get off seeing pictures of dead soldiers you can google it.
Anyone with half a brain knows in war people are killed.
Anyone with a fully functioning brain knows they were someone’s son and a level of respect is owed, and to not revel in images showing their lifeless bodies.
Hey Hey!
Good one to get the first full week of 2025 underway!!!
Ty Sir🫡
Glad you enjoyed it!
Trying a new style for now, but will have the regular Then and Now episodes out as well throughout the year!
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support Jimmy!
Superb work 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you!