Garand Picture of the Day #249

[Mark in Rochester]

Allies Drive For The Rhine
US 9th Infantry soldiers running for cover past the body of an American GI killed in the fierce fighting to take the towns along the Roer river during the Allied drive into Germany.
Location: Germany
Date taken: February 1945
Photographer: George Silk




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[gunner]

My grandpa fought at the Rhine. He always said it was horrible to shoot this poor boys in their boats without a chance to hide. And especially of the fact that they speak together when the war rests for a moment.

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Gunner