German soldiers surrender to American Forces in a small French village in December 1944.

Surrender

General George S. Patton, Jr., greets General Lucian K. Truscott, (right) one of his most trusted divisional commanders; 1944.

Two grat generals...

General Patton visits his son-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel John Waters, while the latter recuperates in Walter Reed U.S. Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. Waters had been held in a German prison camp for three years. Patton was reported to have attempted a rescue operation at one time.