These two lucky German soldiers - now POWs - get a free ride on a jeep, out of the war, into a better future; Germany, 1945.
 


POWs on a jeep

A 9th Armored Division jeep follows a truck carrying German POWs to make sure they don't escape; Germany, March 1945.
 


POWs under watch

An American unit of the 80th Infantry Division (probably the 80th Reconnaissance Troop - M8 Greyhound Armored Car about to cross the bridge) crossing the Inn river on the 245th's newly completed M-2 Threadway Bridge at Braunau, Austria on May 4, 1945. - Braunau on the Inn) is a town in Upper Austria. Located on the border with Germany.
   An excellent view of the German demolition work on the Inn River bridge. Several members of the 245th Engineer Combat Battalion are in the foreground. The lines, attached to the pontoon bridge, which were tied off on the destroyed bridge wreckage up river can be seen.
   Courtesy of Lt. Don Richards, HQ Company, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division.
