Men of 1st Glasgow Highlanders, 52nd (Lowland) Division wearing winter camouflage, prepare to go out on a patrol near the town of Gangelt (not far from the Dutch border) in Germany; 10 January 1945. 

During the Battle of the Bulge

A depth charge explodes astern of HMS STARLING. Mk VII depth charges were the standard anti-submarine weapon at the beginning of the Second World War. - January 1944.
HMS Starling, pennant number U66, was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was active in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War and was the most successful anti-submarine warfare vessel of the Royal Navy, being credited with the destruction of fourteen U-boats.

Depth charge explodes

British Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks, Commander of the XXX Corps, in the company of soldiers of the Royal Canadian Artillery. The person to whom he points is the Australian correspondent King Watson, of the Sydney Daily and Sunday Telegraph. He wears the Australian military insignia of the Rising Sun; Nijmegen, Holland, February 1945.