Soldiers of the 9th US Army inspecting a German mounted 8.8cm rocket launcher (Raketenwerfer 43 "Püppchen"), captured in one of the fortifications in the town of Zweifall, Germany. September 22, 1944.

Püppchen

One of the German paratroopers captured by US forces in the Normandy region, near the village of St. Georges D'Elle.

Paratrooper POW

Pvt Paul Romanick of Battery B, 103rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion, US 1st Infantry Division cleaning 40mm anti-aircraft gun, Sourbrodt, Belgium, 31 Dec 1944; note 6 swastika symbols = 6 kills 
Photographer     Bill Augustine 
