American troops pause on a snowy road near St. Vith, Belgium; January, 1945.

In the middle of the Bulge

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment of the 29th US Infantry Division on a destroyed street in the liberated French town of Isigny-sur-Mer; June 9, 1944.

Battle-scarred town

Soldiers of the US 1st Army are sitting on a German self-propelled assault gun (Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G), knocked out as a result of the bombing by aircraft of the 9th US Air Force, near the German village of Mödrath, 10 miles west of Cologne. 
In the background on the left is the same German self-propelled fighting vehicle; 1945.