American soldiers float a Willys jeep across a reasonably shallow river.

Yankee ingenuity at work

The 409th Infantry Regiment of the 103rd Infantry Division is pausing in the small north-eastern French town of Bouxwiller, near the German border, while advancing to Klingenmünster, Germany, a short distance away; March 14-23, 1945.


Rhineland Campaign

An M4A3 Sherman tank of the 41st Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division, had slipped off the slushy, icy road near the commune of Troisvierges, northern Luxemburg, about 40 kms south of Aachen, Germany; 7 February, 1945.