American combat soldiers fire a 107-mm mortar (M2 4.2 inch mortar) on the street of a battle-damaged German town.

Mortar fire

George Patton contemplates ... something with the aid of his four-star staff Cadillac, date and location unknown.  Might he have given Madonna some competition ?  (Fine ... behind on him ... no, not THE Madonna, the other one ... ).   Just kidding, JR.

Strike a pose ...

German soldiers captured by the U.S. 30th Infantry Division in Maastricht, Netherlands. September 15, 1944.