Signal Corps Archive:
SC 411796 - Lt. Richard H. Davis, Pensacola, Fla., Company B, 253rd Inf., 63rd Division, points to the German statement on the wall of a house with a potato masher (kitchen type).
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 411797 - Pfc. Abraham Green, medic, New Haven, Conn., 253rd Regiment, 63rd Division, stops, reads and wonders at a German sign, "We fight for the future of our children", in the town cleared of the enemy.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 196211 - One of a number of the ME262 Jet propelled German fighter planes abandoned in an assembly plant when units of the 63rd Inf Div. overran the sector before the factory could be destroyed.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 336825 - A jeep carefully negotiates what is left of the bombed (12th T.A.C.) Hindenburg Bridge in town of Schwabisch Hall.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 337370 - Mines and snipers in Hanweiler, Germany, forces this battalion anti-tank unit to seek another route as they move up to support their regiment which jumped off on a pre-dawn attack.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 334964 - Anti-tank gunners set up their 57mm gun, commanding a street in the outskirts of Kleinblittersdorf, alert for a possible counterattack by the enemy.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 335356 - It's only a little pontoon bridge, but Engrs. knew there was a war on when they labored for two days under all kinds of enemy fire to build it...
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 335355 - It's only a little pontoon bridge, but Engrs. knew there was a war on when they labored for two days under all kinds of enemy fire to build it...
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 335288 - Linemen prepare to string wire across street draped with white flags in university town of Heidelburg. 31 March, 1945.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 335287 - Yanks at Heidelberg: Three Yanks stroll through the grounds of one of the newer Heidelberg University buildings,
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 335295 - Showing none of the usual sentiment for the Fatherland, the crumbling German Wehrmacht with characteristic thoroughness destroyed the bridges over the Neckar River connecting Neunheim and Old Heidelberg.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 405023 - Four Russian women forced to accompany German troops for washing and cooking duties from the Eastern Front, indicate their pleasure at being freed again with a salute.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 330038 - Cpl. Patrick J. Shanahan, Lowell, Mass., examines one of three instruments abandoned by the Germans in their retreat from Aldesheim.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 201619 - Assault training. Assault training for the forthcoming attack on the Siegfried defenses.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 201668 - Men of the 1st and 3rd Battalions, U.S. Seventh Army, kneel in prayer, as the first Catholic service is conducted in a partially ruined church in Auersmacher, Germany. 25 February, 1945.
Signal Corps Archive:
SC 201669 - Chaplain John T. Fournie, Ill., hears confession of Pvt. John T. Barry, Bronx, N.Y., Seventh Army artilleryman, after Catholic services were held in Auersmacher, Germany. 25 February, 1945.