83rd Inf Div 4 Scenes158

Top Left: Yanks found these partly emptied glasses, abandoned by the Nazis when the Yanks took the town. Top Right: Troops of the 83rd Infantry move through the captured town of Hirgel, Germany, en route to objectives. The town shows the effects of Yank artillery fire. Bottom Left: Captured German parachute commander. He held out for several days, but wounds and illness forced him to send a note to his captors to come and get him. Bottom Right: Two German prisoners help carry a wounded GI through the streets of a German town, en route to an aid station in the rear.

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