Young German soldiers - hungry and cold - taken captive by US Forces in the early part of 1945.

It is over for them

Local residents cheer US Forces entering their town of Barneville (25 miles south-west of Cherbourg), France; June, 1944.

Welcome to our town

An American mortar crew fires on German positions along the banks of the Rhine River on March 24, 1945. 
  The Americans fired more than 65,000 rounds of numerous calibers during efforts to soften the Germans up prior to crossing the Rhine.