Front view of 240mm (9.4 inch) howitzer of Battery `B’, 697th Field Artillery Battalion, just before firing into German held territory. Mignano area, Italy. January 30, 1944
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FIRE!

The first patrol of the American 8th Infantry Division passes along the street of the captured German city Düren (between Aachen and Cologne) past an anti-tank SAU M10 (M10 Wolverine). Duren was almost completely destroyed by the air attack of the 8th US Air Force on 11/16/1944 and captured by US troops on 02/25/1945. 


American patrol

Soldiers of the U.S. 7th Armored Division check out a German 380-mm railway gun (38-cm SK L/45 Max), captured in Holland; 1944.
The 38 cm SK L/45 "Max", also called Langer Max (literal translation "Long Max") was a German long-range, heavy siege and coast-defense gun. 