Pvt. Roy McDaniels, of Hartford City, Indiana, keeps a lookout for enemy activity from a 30th Infantry Division observation post in Stavelot, Belgium; December 1944.

Battle of the Bulge Offensive

A U.S. soldier trudges along a muddy road to Metz, eastern France. Some of the most difficult fighting on the Western Front took place in and around Fort Driant; Autumn 1944.

The Fort, that halted the Third Army

U.S. infantrymen of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division,  U.S. First Army, crouch in a snow-filled ditch, taking shelter from a German artillery barrage during the Battle of Heartbreak Crossroads in the Krinkelter woods on 14 December 1944.