German soldiers smoke captured American cigarettes in front of a U.S. Army armored car on December 17, 1944; during the Battle of Bulge.

American cigarettes

Bicycle mounted Waffen-SS soldiers ride towards Arnhem, September 1944.
   During the Battle of Arnhem the Germans moved hundreds of troops up by bicycles to reinforce the area. This was done quickly and within hours and totally independent of the need to use motorised or train transportation.


Bicycle mounted soldiers

Soldiers of the Leibstandarte Division amid a house-to-house raid searching for Soviet soldiers in early March 1943 during the Kharkov counteroffensive.