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In the left foreground is a command post as the U.S. 9th Army gets ready to cross the Rhine. To the right can be seen an assault boat on its way to the east bank of the river.

9th Army ordnance personnel inspect a huge howitzer-like-gun captured by the 30th ID. The gun fires a rocket-propelled shell 15 ins. in diameter weighing 1500 lbs. Photo taken at Nusa, Germany, April 2nd, 1945.

Four American Infantrymen relax during a lull in the fighting in their sector in the library of Rimburg castle on the Dutch-German frontier. These jars of preserves were apparently left behind by the Nazis, but now they add to their enjoyment. October 4th, 1944.

Exhausted 30th Infantry Division troops shave during a lull in the fighting, November, 1944.

Troops leave Euchen, Germany on November 16th, 1944 for assault deeper into Germany. This 30th ID assault was known as the "Perfect Infantry Attack".

Sgt. Petit assists with the training in the use of a flame thrower on a German pillbox just north of Aachen on November 5th, 1944.

Pvt. Beymer, 120th IR, 3rd Battalion, guards a Nazi prisoner who is removing U.S. Army shoes and pants. Geromont, Belguim...January 13, 1945.

A tank of the 30th ID that was supporting the 143rd Inf. Reg. near Herrlisheim, France on February 6th, 1945 was knocked out by a German anti-tank weapon.

Citizens of Louviers mill about Yank jeep welcoming GI's of the 30th Infantry Division. Maquis routed out hiding Germans hastening the city's liberation.

M-4 Sherman tank supports 30th Infantry Division troops in the capture of Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany. The Sherman has a 76mm gun in the turret.

A patrol of the 120th Infantry Regiment moves inside a forest near Holthausen, Germany on March 25th, 1945 after crossing the Rhine River.

30th Infantry Division troops headed home on the Queen Mary....photo offered to 30th troops.

119th IR machine gunner awaits expected German counter-attack against the Rimberg Castle in the Wurm River sector of the line...October 7th, 1944. Left of his position is an opening to a captured German Siegfried Line pillbox.

St. Vith, the original 30th ID objective for the January counterattack, lies in ruins. The 7th Armored Division pinched off the 30th division just outside of St. Vith to enter the city.

30th Infantry Division knocked out M-4 Sherman along with a German Stug assault gun in Tampone.

Three 117th Regiment, 1st Battalion, "Curlew" fighters pose for photographer as thought they were about to storm a door. The picture was taken in Stavelot at an area occupied by the First Platoon of Company B. From left to right: Pfc. James A. Insalaco, Sergeant Joseph A. Martini and a 3rd unidentified soldier.

This photo is found in the 117th history book as a lead-in photo for the Holland/Belgium section. I have also found a photo description of a firefight, east of the Rhine, end of March, 1945

Battery B, 591st Field Artillery, 106th Infantry Division, firing on German positions in support of the 82nd Airborne Division which was fighting to the west of the 30th Infantry Division during the St. Vith offensive, January 5th, 1945.

Soldiers of the only remaining regiment of the 106th, the 424th, regroup in support of the 30th Infantry Division as the retaking of St. Vith is taking place.

Pfc. Paul J. Green, N. Hollywood, CA, Co. D, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Inf. Div. gets nourishment from "K" rations in front of his foxhole dugout.

Germans captured in a Seigfried Line pillbox by 30th Inf. Div. troops are matched into Palenburg, Germany, past buildings that show evidence of the heavy fighting on German soil. Photo by Harry Harris, AP photographer.

30th Infantry Division troops near Pier Germany await by LVT Alligators to assault across the Roer River.

LaGleize Townhall after capture by 30th Division, Dec. 1944, photo by Life Magazine.

30 caliber machine gun team firing through a loophole knocked in the wall of a ruined building in Kohlscheid, Germany, during the battle for that town in October, 1944. The gunner is Pfc. Victor Henry and the team belonged to Company K, 119th Inf. Regiment, 30th Inf. Division. They were firing at Germans in a barn 300 yards away.

a 57mm anti-tank gun in the forest of the Ardennes. Location and unit unknown. Help appreciated.

U.S. Ninth Army Crosses the Rhine River

In the left foreground is a command post as the U.S. 9th Army gets ready to cross the Rhine. To the right can be seen an assault boat on its way to the east bank of the river.