Three American soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division praying in front of a roadside crucifix prior to battle; Belgium, December 29, 1944.
 


Three humble warriors

Major General Edward H. Brooks (2nd from right), Commander of 2nd Armored Division (March-September 1944), walking with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley (behind Eisenhower) and Colonel Charles Palmer (behind Brooks). - Brooks was elevated to Command of VI. Corps in mid-September, under Lieutenant Alexander Patch's U.S. Seventh Army.


Generals Brooks and others

11th Regiment, 5th Division US Private Charles Preston, of Nicholasville, Kentucky, brushes snow from a M1917 Browning machine gun mounted on his jeep. His unit was moving in against the German counterattack in the Ardennes during the 'Battle of the Bulge' which was then barely a week old, in the frontline of Luxemburg. 