The crew of an M8 armored car pauses to search the Normandy countryside for signs of enemy activity. Colonel Raff’s Force included a pair of M8s and four jeeps of the 4th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron; France, 1945.

Colonel Raff's Force

An M12 GMC from 737th Tank Battalion, 5th Infantry Division slogs its way through the mud near Berdorf, Luxembourg, near the German border; February 9, 1945.

Mud is the immediate enemy

American tank destroyers move forward during heavy fog to stem the German spearhead near the village of Werbomont, Belgium; December 20, 1944.

Battle of the Bulge is under way

Men of U.S. 66th Armored Infantry Battalion., 12th Armored Division, move through the town of  Schneeberg, Germany; 3 April 1945.

Townspeople looking on

4 American GIs stopping to look for directions somewhere between the towns of Trier and Saarburg, Germany, 1945.

Distraction from seeing the road sign

U.S. M15A1 Halftrack with 37mm & 2X .50 cal combination AA guns in Cherbourg France - July 1944.

Combination firepower

A U.S. half track mounting a heavy gun barrage on Axis forces in Tunisia; February 1943.

Kasserine Pass region

M10 "Wolverine" of the U.S. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion in the area of the German city of Olpe, 60 kms. east of Cologne. The battalion was part of the 8th Infantry Division; Spring,1945.

M10 Wolverine

Dutch children give flowers to the crew of an American  M5 "Stuart" light tank from the 744th tank battalion; Netherlands, October 1944.

 

Soldiers get flowers, kids get candy

Soldiers of the US 4th Armored Division remove a stretcher with a wounded comrade from an M3 Stuart light tank during the battles on the Saar River, France; December 1, 1944.

Not life-threatening wound

A platoon of American M4 Sherman tanks, attached to the 37th Infantry Division, move on a dirt road in the jungle of Bougainville Island, South Pacific; 1944.

 

Armored activity on Solomon Islands

An American M4 Sherman tank stands near the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig, Germany; April, 1945..
Next to the tank, children stand among American soldiers, who have come to look at US military equipment. 

Tank in front of monument

American soldiers of Company F from the 2nd battalion of the 130th Infantry Regiment, 33rd Infantry Division and 105mm M7 self-propelled howitzer move along the island of Luzon, the Philippines near the city of Naguilian.

Infantry and armor moving on

M4 "Sherman" tanks from the 10th Tank Battalion of the 7th Armored Division, US Army, on the edge of the forest in the area of ​​Saint Vith, East Belgium; January 1945.

Battle of the Bulge time...

M4 Sherman tanks of the US 10th Armored Division drive through the mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; May 11, 1945.

No time to enjoy the scenery

 American prime mover Autocar Model U8144T (officially 5 to 6-Ton, 4×4),  tow trailers with landing craft LCVP to the Rhine; March 24, 1945.

For crossing the Rhine river

An American M4A3(76)W HVSS (Horizontal Volute Suspension System) medium tank from the 4th Armored Division of the US Army in position near the highway in the Bastogne area; Belgium, January 8, 1945.

Covering the road in the Battle of the Bulge

A group of German prisoners of war lined up and an American M5 Stuart tank guarding them, in the Bastogne area; Southern Belgium; December 1944.

At the time of the Battle of the Bulge

American M10 anti-tank self-propelled guns from the 634th tank destroyer battalion in position in the German city of Aachen; October, 1944.

Nicknamed "Wolverines"

Columns of American vehicles are passing along a street in the city of Geilenkirchen, Germany (15 kilometers north of Aachen, near the Dutch border); mid-November, 1944.

Mixed military vehicles on the move

An American jeep with a .45 caliber machine gun, accompanying the commander of the 12th Corps of the US Army, Lieutenant General Manton Eddy (05/16/1892 - 04/10/1962), in the German city of Mayen (10 miles west of Koblenz). Military Police Sergeant John Hylass is at the machine gun; March 16, 1945.

Safeguarding the 12th Corps commander

An M4 Sherman tank with “hedgerow-busting” teeth attached to its glacis plate roars through the shattered town of Lambézellec, Brittany, France, two miles north of the port city of Brest.

Tank with “hedgerow-busting” teeth

 An M10 self-propelled gun of the American 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion is firing at German positions in Echternach, Luxembourg near the Sûre River (German Sauer); February 7, 1945.

Target: German positions

American self-propelled anti-tank gun M10 "Wolverine" from the 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, at the edge of a forest near the Belgian village of Benonchamps, Belgium (5 miles east of Bastogne).
   This tank destroyer, under the command of Sgt. Jacob Kretchik is credited with the destruction of five German tanks during a counterattack near Oberwampach, Luxembourg; January 21, 1945.

Released POWs greet American troops entering Munich, Germany on Dachauer Straße (street). In the foreground is an M36 Jackson self-propelled tank destroyer; May 3, 1945.

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