Mortar crew in action... May be a posed photo, but, how different the "real thing" could be...?

Mortar

American soldiers make temporary home in a captured German coastal fortification, somewhere in France - eat their meal, hang out laundry, etc. The original gun is still left intact.


Somewhere in France

Two Soviet officers of the 58th Guards Rifle Division and two officers of the U.S. 69th Infantry Division compare their weapons in peaceful coexistence on the River Elbe - where the two sides have met, at Torgau, Germany. April 1945.