U.S. Military Police of the 44th Infantry Division interview two juvenile Wehrmacht soldiers following the surrender of divisions of the German 19th Army in western Austria. Towards the end of the war, with able-bodied German men in short supply, German and Austrian boys as young as 12 and 14 were being conscripted to fight in a last ditch effort to turn the tide of the war. - Landeck, Tyrol-Vorarlberg, Ostmark (prior to the war and afterward: Landeck, Tyrol, Austria). 5th May 1945

Too young for real fight

US 63rd Armored Infantry Battalion troops and tanks searching for snipers in the town of Andernach, Rhineland, Germany, March 9, 1945.


Clearing from snipers

American soldiers climbing down cargo netting to board small landing craft during the opening hours of the invasion of Vichy French controlled Morocco and Algeria in North Africa. - Operation Torch, November 1942. 