After the American soldiers entered the city of Wadern, in south-western Germany, about 25 miles to the south-east of Trier, with the help of a nurse of the German Red Cross, they advised the residents, hiding in cellars, that they could come out, the hostilities were over; March, 1945.

German nurse and American soldiers

Victor Henry, Pontotoc, Miss., fires his machine gun through a hole in a wall, at Germans in a barn 300 yards away, beyond Kohlscheid, Germany. He is flanked by two of his buddies. 16 October, 1944. Co. K, 3rd Battalion, 119th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division

Source: US Signal Corp,taken from fb/WW2 Memories

Suppressive fire

An American soldier and two nurses of the German Red Cross have a friendly chat in the American occupied town of Dinan, Brittany, north-western France, 1944. - The nurses are treated with a canteen cup of coffee, no wonder they are all smiles.