The Battle of Aachen, October 1944. American soldiers are loading a streetcar with captured german grenades of 75mm and 88mm caliber. They labeled it with &quot;Heil Heel&quot;, &quot;Aachen Express&quot;, a Hitler portrait and called the car &quot;V 13&quot; - an allusion to the german &quot;wonder weapons V 1 and V 2. The streetcar was sent racing into the town where it detonated without causing to much damage as it was told. Quite inventive idea anyway!

American V 13 in Aachen

Nazi Germans captured in France by U.S. Army.
German is telling his german friends to surrender because of U.S. Army Forces.
1944

Nazi Germans captured in France.

A group of american soldiers looks at a map at the border triangle of Germany/Holland/Belgium west of Aachen, September 1944. Aachen was the first german major city to be captured by western allies on October 21st 1944.