An M4A3 (75) Sherman tank and combat soldiers of the U.S. 37th Infantry Division cautiously probe the area from Japanese defenders in Luzon, the Philippines. January, 1945.

Battle for Luzon

pvt Alfred Leo Steier bottom left and to other unknown soldiers pvt Steier served in the 7 th I D 49th artillery b battery 

PVT Alfred Leo Steier

As Chief of Staff at the Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith (1895 - 1961) signed on behalf of the Supreme Commander the Instrument of Surrender the Armed Forces of Germany in Reims, France on May 7, 1945. On the left - Chief of Staff of the British Navy, Admiral Sir Harold Martin Burrough, (1889-1977), on the right - the chief Soviet military mission in France, Major General Ivan Susloparov (1897-1974).
