Actress Marlene Dietrich hands out "lipstick autographs" to GI admirers during her USO tour in the Ardennes (1944).

USO tour

Two grim-faced German youths, captured while attempting to ambush GIs from a wooded area near Aachen, are marched away by an American MP for questioning. The boys, aged 14 (left) and 10, had been trained to be snipers by the local chapter of the Hitler Youth.
 


Young snipers

Army engineers carrying mine detectors cautiously probe a snowy road in the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge). In a dense minefield, engineers often exploded "snakes" - tubes filled with TNT that set off mines for seven feet around.