Mining a road, a combat engineer lowers a 10-pound antitank charge into a hole and prepares to scoop dirt over it. Sometimes two mines were buried together to increase chances of disabling a heavily armored Tiger tank (Battle of the Bulge, Dec. 1944).

Laying mines

Combat soldiers head for their aid station carrying a wounded buddy on a door covered with straw (Battle of the Bulge; December 1944).

Combat wounded

Scores of American soldiers captured in the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge, 1944) are marched to the rear, bound for prisoner-of-war camps in Germany.