U.S. soldiers of a mortar squad from Company E, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division pause to eat chow near Bettendorf, Luxembourg. - L-R: Pfc. Ray Cottingham, Kokomo, Ind., Pvt. John W. West, Atlanta Ga., and Pvt. James J. Kudrne, Jr., Brookfield, Ill.; January 25, 1945.

C-Rations in the field

Operation Market Garden 1944, U.S. paratroopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 82nd Airborne Division, march on the Oranjesingel road in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, toward the Waal river; September 1944. 

Paratroopers marching in

American troops help Belgian refugees flee Bastogne, a city under siege by the German army; Bastogne, Belgium, December, 1944. 