Soldiers of the US army 104th Infrantry Division inspecting a Panzer IV nicknamed "Rita"  captured during the Battle of the Bulge. 

Inspecting a Panzer Tank

Young German soldiers in an Sd.kfz. 251 near the Belgian-Luxembourg border during the Ardennes offensive, at the end of December 1944.
   The Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track was a WW2 German armored fighting vehicle, designed to transport the panzergrenadiers (German mechanized infantry) into battle.


Waiting for the order to get into battle

a GI of the 75th infantry division peers into the hatch of a abandoned german captured Hotchkiss H 39 tank, Ostheim France 1945.