On a cold, dark December morning in 1944, B Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Regiment began the slow approach to Hill 351. Coming under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire from a well-entrenched enemy, these soldiers of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division were forced to dig in.

Colmar Pocket: Alsace, France

Dwight D. Eisenhower conferring with senior British Army officer Bernard Montgomery in London, 1944.

Ike and Monty

General George S. Patton, Jr., stands proudly in uniform. He wears the four stars of his rank along with the insignia of the Third and Seventh U.S. Armies on his helmet; April, 1945. 