German forward troops advancing through ruins, one carries an StG 44 assault rifle, while another carries a Flammenwerfer 41 (flamethrower), Aachen, Germany, border city with the Netherlands and Belgium;  1944.

Advance party troops

German Red Cross (DRK) workers giving food and drinks to Heer soldiers who are leaving for the Front.  Date not known.
Heer - was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular German Armed Forces.

Sendoff with care from home

An MG 34 machine gun of the German mountain rangers set in the anti-aircraft position somewhere in the Apennine mountains; Italy, July 1944.