On both sides of the street convoys of the 28th Infantry Division are flanked by Frenchmen in the northern city of Colmar after liberation on February 3 1945. Nazi occupation of France formally lasted from May 1940 to December 1944.

Yanks are coming

American GIs learn about the death of Hitler from the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes.

Breaking news

A member of the US 26th Division, Thomas O'Brien of Middleborough, Massachusetts, kneels in the snow on the Western Front to eat a (used to be warm) cold meal.