An American M4A3 (76) W tank being driven off a landing craft LCM-6 (Landing Craft Mechanized) to the eastern shore after crossing the Rhine River; Germany, March 1945.

To the other side of the Rhine

  Soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team travel in a Willys MB jeep during the Falaise operation, in the vicinity of the city of Falaise, France (approx. 20 miles south of Caen).
  The 442nd Regimental Battle Group was formed from second-generation Japanese Americans (the so-called Nisei) who chose to fight against the Axis. The jeep is equipped with a Browning M1917 machine gun. A post is fixed on the bumper of the jeep, which protected passengers from the wire stretched by the Germans across the road; August 1944.

Soldiers of the 442nd in action

An M4A3E8 Sherman tank of the US 16th Armored Division in the city of Pilsen, western Czechoslovakia; May 1945.