Photo taken during a rest period in Chevron,Belgium,Rest area.B Company C.P.Battle of the Bulge period.
1st Sergeant Jim Smith was a well respected NCO.He remained in the service and retired in 1965 as a Chief warrant Officer.
~~courtesy,Jim Smith ~~

1st Sergeant Jim Smith

A lanky GI, with hands clasped behind his head, leads a file of American prisoners marching along a road somewhere on the western front.  Germans captured these American soldiers during the surprise enemy drive into Allied positions.  December 1944.  (Army)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  111-SC-198240
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1071

Captured American GIs

This intersection, several mile North of Carentan, originally got it's name from the fact that on 7 June, 1944, a American light tank (M-5) of Company 'D', 70th Tank Battalion, was knocked-out nearly in front of the large house and sat there for days afterward. The burned body of the tank commander could still be seen in the turret, and soldiers started to use it as a reference point, saying, &quot;go to the corner where the dead man is in the tank&quot;.
This was soon shortened to 'Dead Man's Corner'. texag57