Dwight D. Eisenhower conferring with senior British Army officer Bernard Montgomery in London, 1944.

Ike and Monty

US soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment., 75th Infantry Division. (Bulge Busters) in very muddy terrain, cleaning their M1 Garand rifle and Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) M-1918 before moving up to the front line.

Prepare to go where the action is

On a cold, dark December morning in 1944, B Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Regiment began the slow approach to Hill 351. Coming under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire from a well-entrenched enemy, these soldiers of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division were forced to dig in.