An American soldier stops near Metz, France, to read an ominous road sign... 

Sign suggesting caution

Soldiers of the 314th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Infantry Division, U.S. 7th Army, are  engaged in combat for possession of the Haguenau forest and the nearby town by the same name, in the north-eastern corner of France; 1945.

U.S. positions in the forest

Soldiers of Company K, 1st Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, move through the destroyed French commune of Hébécrevon, 2 miles west of Saint-Lô ; July 1944.