American soldiers check for identifications on the bodies of dead U.S. troops, massacred by the Germans, on December 17, 1944, after they laid down their arms, near Malmedy, Belgium, during the battle of the Bulge.

Site of the massacre

 Lieutenant General George Patton watches operations from a Sicilian town in the front line accompanied by his staff; 1943. 


Town on the front line in Sicily

American soldiers from the 2nd Armored Division inspect a submachine gun they have taken from a captured German soldier, sitting on the jeep, in the area of Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly, 18 Kms SW of Saint Lô, France  

