Soldiers of the US 1st Army are sitting on a German self-propelled assault gun (Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G), knocked out as a result of the bombing by aircraft of the 9th US Air Force, near the German village of Mödrath, 10 miles west of Cologne. 
In the background on the left is the same German self-propelled fighting vehicle; 1945.

Fun on top of a fearsome monster

German Fallschirmjäger with his MG 34 machine gun on the ready, relaxing with a smoke; Eastern Front, early 1943.

All calm on the battlefield

German artillerymen on a half-track tractor Sd.Kfz. 8, towing a 150 mm sFH18 heavy field howitzer, passing through the Place dela Concorde in Paris, France; June 1940.

Heavy howitzer in Paris

New Zealand soldiers in battle on the ruins of Montecassino, in the Italian city of Cassino; 1944.

Italian campain

American troops pause on a snowy road near St. Vith, Belgium; January, 1945.

In the middle of the Bulge

American soldiers of Company F from the 2nd battalion of the 130th Infantry Regiment, 33rd Infantry Division and 105mm M7 self-propelled howitzer move along the island of Luzon, the Philippines near the city of Naguilian.

Infantry and armor moving on

A soldier of M battalion "IX Settembre," part of the army of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana (RSI), with signature "M" monogram on lapels and wearing a "samurai" magazine-holding vest for his Beretta MAB SMG, 1943.

"Black Shirt" with Beretta MAB SMG

German soldiers battle under the cover of a Pz.Kpfw. III (Panzer III) tank on the territory of the USSR; March 1942.

Rifle fire with the enemy

A pair of British soldiers with a PIAT (Projector Infantry Anti-Tank) rocket launcher; Normandy, France, June 1944.

Covering a road junction

M4 "Sherman" tanks from the 10th Tank Battalion of the 7th Armored Division, US Army, on the edge of the forest in the area of ​​Saint Vith, East Belgium; January 1945.

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