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Top Left: Two of the sixteen German prisoners taken from a pillbox near Heinerscheid, Luxembourg. When the occupants refused to surrender, 1st Sergeant Arthur Stansell, of the 6th Armored Division, 3rd U.S. Army, placed 150 pounds of TNT and two 40 pound beehive demolition charges at the entrance. After the charges were set off, four men came staggering out, and two hand grenades brought out two more. The remaining men had to be dragged out. Evidence of the blast can still be seen on their faces. Top Right: A few days before this picture was taken, Private Beall (middle left) was out on patrol with the 35th Infantry Division and was the only survivor. Bottom Left: Rubble and debris, and battered equipment litter the streets of Germany, captured by Infantrymen of the U.S. 4th Army Division. Bottom Right: Smoke at the end of the rubble-littered street in Germany is from mortar shell bursts on the German stronghold at the left of the Salvador Church in the distance. Germans had infiltrated into the city and fortified the house into a minor fortress.

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