Jean-Baptiste Piron
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Jean-Baptiste Piron was a Belgian military officer, best known for his role in the Free Belgian forces during World War II as commander of the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade, widely known as the "Piron
Piron, photographed c.1945
A Daimler Armoured Car in the markings of the Piron Brigade (Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History)
Allied-occupied Germany
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The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949. Nazi Germany was st
Jean-Baptiste Piron
…Belgian Infantry Brigade, he led the unit from 1942 to 1944, including on the Western Front in late 1944. He commanded the Belgian army of occupation in Germany in 1946–1947 and was aide de camp to Prince-Regent Charles and, later, to King Baudouin. He ended his career as lieutenant general and retired in 1957…
Royal Air Force's Malcolm Club in Schleswig, formerly the Stadt Hamburg Hotel in late 1945.
British armored car, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1950.
French forces in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1946
The Supreme Commanders of the Four Powers on 5 June 1945 in Berlin: Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny