{"id":6119,"date":"2016-08-28T07:51:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2016-08-28T07:51:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T13:51:40","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-28-aug-3-sept-1944-liberation-of-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6119","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 28 Aug&#8211;3 Sept 1944: Liberation of Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6121\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6121\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6121\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6121\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6121\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wbrussels-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"British troops enter Brussels, September 1944 [Public domain]\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wbrussels-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wbrussels-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wbrussels.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British troops enter Brussels, September 1944 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 3 September 1944, Brussels was liberated by the Welsh\u00a0Guards (part of Lieutenant General Brian Horrock&#8217;s XXX Corps, British 2nd Army) amid widespread jubilation.<\/p>\n<p>The 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade (known as the <em>Brigade Piron<\/em> after its commander, Colonel Jean-Baptiste Piron) followed the Welsh Guards into Brussels and played a major role in the liberation of Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, on 3 September 1944, Brussels was liberated by the Welsh\u00a0Guards (part of Lieutenant General Brian Horrock&#8217;s XXX Corps, British 2nd Army) amid widespread jubilation. The 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade (known as the Brigade Piron after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6119\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1020,1019,1021],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-brigade-piron","tag-brussels","tag-jean-baptiste-piron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}