An american soldier of VIIth US Corps abides at a statue of the Virgin Mother in Cologne, March 1945. In the background the cathedral of Cologne can be seen.

G.I. in Cologne, March 1945

Motorized US troops advancing towards the encircled town of Bastogne, early January 1945. Mind the jeeps reinforced with steel plates.

US troops near Bastogne

US troops crossing the Rhine near the city of Worms/Rhineland-Palatinate. By that time, March 1945, there was no connected german front of defence anymore in the west.