An American jeep with a .45 caliber machine gun, accompanying the commander of the 12th Corps of the US Army, Lieutenant General Manton Eddy (05/16/1892 - 04/10/1962), in the German city of Mayen (10 miles west of Koblenz). Military Police Sergeant John Hylass is at the machine gun; March 16, 1945.

Safeguarding the 12th Corps commander

An M4 Sherman tank with “hedgerow-busting” teeth attached to its glacis plate roars through the shattered town of Lambézellec, Brittany, France, two miles north of the port city of Brest.

Tank with “hedgerow-busting” teeth

Columns of American vehicles are passing along a street in the city of Geilenkirchen, Germany (15 kilometers north of Aachen, near the Dutch border); mid-November, 1944.