An American soldier prepares to make a canteen cup of hot cofffee (or hot chocolate) from the C-Ration supply. Where to get the water? Nature provided it in the form of freshly fallen snow in the Ardennes, Belgium; Battle of the Bulge, January, 1945.

Melt snow into water

A US Army medic is having a friendly chat with some fellow-soldiers of the 83d Infantry Division; Germany, April, 1945.

War in Europe is almost over

An American soldier from the US 94th Infantry Division searching two young German anti-aircraft gunners who surrendered in Frankenthal, a short distance north from the cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshaven along the Rhine river; Germany, 23 March 1945.