Advance units of the First Army reached the German border on September 11th. Aachen was the first German city to fall to the Allies on October 21st. American troops rest outside the city. 

Aachen Germany September 1944

An M4 medium tank of the 4th Armored Division takes part in
operations to push out of Bastogne on January 3, 1945 with a 
.30 caliber machine gun team in the foreground.

Battle of the Bulge 1944

Tanks of the Seventh Army rumble through the ruins of Nuremberg, captured April 20th. 