Commander of the 89th Rifle Corps, Red Army Major General  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Siyazov (1900 - 1957) salutes, as driven around in a U.S. Army jeep, to welcome U.S. troops in the Elbe area; Germany, 1945. 


Paying tribute

American soldiers dock their boat on the eastern bank of the Elbe river in Germany, as they come over for a peaceful meeting with the Russians; 1945.

Crossed the Elbe river

Major General Matthew B. Ridgeway (2nd from right), commander of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, meeting with his officers; Saint-Sauveur-Le-Vicomte, Manche, Cotentin Peninsula, France, June 16, 1944. 
