Soldiers of the US Ninth Army drink up some captured beer somewhere in Germany.March 1945

Beer time

A Private with the 1st Armored Division is holding up a bottle of beer in the doorway of his homemade winter house as he waits for the call to the front lines. His house was made from the boxes that held 75mm shells.

1st AD Shack

Scanning the East bank an observer of the US Ninth Army perches on the terrace of a building on the West bank of the Rhine and sizes up German positions on the other side.