US soldiers using a stretcher to retrieve the body of a countryman injured while crossing a pontoon footbridge spanning the Roer river.

Roer river

G.I.'s  Emil Wehlin from Paterson/New Jersey and Arnold Novels from Stearns/Kentucky with their German Shepherd which they had "adopted" from German troops in France. Schevenhütte near Aachen/Germany, autumn 1944. Note the steel bar attached to the Jeep's front avoiding the decapitation of passengers by wires etc.

Autumn 1944

Past many discarded life belts, American soldiers cross a pontoon footbridge built to span the Roer river.