American soldiers of Company G, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, U.S. First Army, take refuge in doorways during mortar barrage laid down by Germans after the Americans seized a German forest stronghold camouflaged as a two-story residence. Wahlerscheid, at the German-Belgian border; December 16th 1944. 

Take cover!

The Pegnitz river in Nuremberg on April 20, Hitler’s fifty-sixth birthday and the day this shattered city fell to the U.S. XV Corps.

Description/photo: US National Archives
taken from fb/WWII uncovered

Aftermath

Soldiers of the US 9th Army capture a German soldier in the outskirts of Geilenkirchen, Germany, on the border with the Netherlands, 20 kms. north of Aachen. The American soldier is armed with an M3 submachine gun.  
