American artillerymen fire a 155mm M1/M2 Long Tom gun at Axis targets in Tunisia, North Africa.

Fire mission

A jeep carrying two Wehrmacht officers, taken prisoners of war, the driver pauses to exchange words with the crew of a M5 light tank in the German town of Hersfeld in 1945. The town was spared destruction, when two officers guaranteed the town’s peaceful handover to the U.S. Army.

Hersfeld 1945

84th Division tanks and infantry attack and clear the German town of Geilenkirchen against strong enemy resistance.