Pvt Alfred Leo Steier and unknown soldier

PVT Alfred Leo Steier 

General George Patton did not have the heroic battlefield death he wanted, but he was given a hero’s burial at the U.S. Military Cemetery at Hamm, Luxembourg; December 23, 1945.
The pallbearer on the left is M/Sgt. William Meeks, who served as Patton’s personal orderly for many years.   

General Patton's funeral procession

Captured German soldiers of the 716th Wehrmacht division taken prisoners by the US Forces in the Omaha landing sector on the Normandy coast in France. In the center are two barely eighteen-year-olds.