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. 

Battle of the Bulge

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

A soldier's personal photograph of the bridge sign on the north bank of the Inn River taken by an unknown member of the 744th Field Artillery Battalion. 

 "You are Now leaving Germany.  Thank God.  Through the courtesy of the 245th Eng. C. BN." (Engineering Construction Battalion). On the other side of the river is Austria...
