After cutting across France, the 6th Armored Division reached the German border on 6 December, 1944 and established and maintained defensive positions in the vicinity of  the city of Saarbrücken. 


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A soldier (left) of the 24th US Cavalry Reconnaissance Group talks with paratroopers of the 507th PIR, 17th US Airborne Division; La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, January 1945. 

Glad to meet you guys

A 33-men patrol of American soldiers, representing all the battalions of the 334th Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division, assemble in a rocky forested area about 10 miles north of Bastogne, Belgium; December, 194(4).