M4A3 (75) Sherman tanks of the 9th Armored Division in the vicinity of the small town of Westhausen, east of Stuttgart, Germany; April 10, 1945.


Sherman tanks pausing

Hunter M-10 tank destroyers moving from the devastated streets of München-Gladbach, on March 1, 1945, during Operation Granade, the assault on the Roer River.
   Operation Grenade was the crossing of the Roer (Rur) river between Roermond and Düren by the U.S. Ninth Army in February 1945.
   Mönchengladbach (as it is called now), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border.

Tank destroyers of Operation Granade

A US soldier guides a Sherman tank on the Colditz Castle bridge as others look on; April 16, 1945.
   Colditz castle was a high security prisoner-of-war camp for officers who had become security or escape risks for Nazis. Located  near Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany.
 
