Nurses of the American Red Cross are watching the battle for Monte Cassino from the village of Cervaro, 2 miles away; June 1944.                                      _


Keeping an eye on the battle

A captured German tank at the village of La Gleize, eastern Belgium; January, 1945. - This Panther tank is a rare late war model, where the roadwheels are steel, the same design as the Tiger II. It was destroyed  on this spot by U.S. troops.
    La Gleize was where the advance of Kampfgruppe Peiper was halted during the Battle of the Bulge. 

Destroyed German tank

German soldiers, captured by the 30th Infantry Division troops, are marched into the town of Übach-Palenberg, 10 miles north of Aachen, Germany, past buildings like the damaged furniture store on the left corner, that show evidence of heavy fighting; October 11, 1944.