Captured railway gun

&quot;Infantrymen of the 44th Division, Seventh U.S. Army, fire at snipers concealed in a building in Mannheim, Germany, during mopping-up operations on the day of its capture March 29, 1945. On the far side of the street, a soldier with a bazooka gun is about to fire a rocket at the position. The city was subjected to such heavy shelling and bombing that hardly a building remained intact. Mannheim is on the Rhine River 35 miles south of Mainz.&quot; Photo by Richard Boyer.
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U.S. Troops Battle Snipers in Mannheim

Mortars in full action while men seem to wait and to rest. In Omaha of the men of the 81st Mortar Chemical Bn of 1st US ID Certainly on June 6, 1944 after midday.