A U.S. soldier from the 2nd Infantry Division is guarding a group of German POWs near the village of Schöneseiffen,  Germany, not far from the Belgian border; 1945. 


German soldiers under guard

Major General Omar N. Bradley shortly before leaving for Africa, where he eventually succeeded Patton as commander of the U.S. II Corps. A prim, severe Missourian who was described as “the least dressed-up commander of an American army in the field since Zachary Taylor,” he likened rooting Axis troops from the Tunisian hills to “hunting wild goats.” 


The GI's General

US troops from the 9th Army searching German civilians for identification in Krefeld, Germany, on the west bank of the Rhine river, about 10 kms. north-west of  Düsseldorf.
The city fell to the Americans on 3 March 1945.
