[Below: Walloonian volunteer SS-Untersturmführer Léon Gillis in Pomerania. He is holding a StG 44 assault rifle, Spring, 1945.]

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[Below: Walloonian volunteers fighting alongside the Wiking division in the Cherkassy pocket, where in February 1944, against overwhelming odds they broke through the surrounding Communist forces, losing half their numbers!]

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[Above: A united Europe. In Dresden, Germany, a Walloonian Waffen-SS volunteer meets his French and Croatian counterparts.]

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[Above: Charleroi, Belgium, Walloonian volunteers on the march. August 31, 1943.]

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[Above: A young Walloonian Waffen-SS volunteer.]

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[Above: SS-Untersturmführer Léon Gillis in Pomerania in the spring of 1945. He is armed with a StG 44 assault rifle.]

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[Above: North Caucasus, December 1941.]

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[Above: Walloonian Waffen-SS volunteers take the oath of allegiance.]

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[Above: Chow time. On the left is the hero Hubert Van Eyser who was to be killed in action at Cherkassy as a platoon leader in the 1st Company.]

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[Above: Somewhere on the Eastern Front...]

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[Above: The final days... Pomerania -- February-March, 1945. Left to right: Ustuf Georges Suain, Ustuf Léon Gillis, Ustuf Desire Lecocq, Oscha Van Isschott and Sturmmann Collard.]