Photograph of Charles Heck, with a stick in his hand, kneeling somewhere in Germany.

Photograph of half-tracks, full of 12th Armored Division soldiers, driving through muddy streets in Colmar, France. Buildings are visible in the background.

Photograph of a group of liberated Polish and Russian prisoners, including one woman, standing in a dirt road and looking up at the camera.

Photograph of Mike Shovan and Charles Danton embracing while crouching against a wall. Shovan is balding and Danton is wearing a garrison cap.

Photograph of Thomas Scoggins posing in a forest in Germany.

Photograph of Thomas Scoggins sitting on a tank with a rocket launcher, somewhere in Germany. Another tank and several buildings are visible in the background.

Photograph of a Sherman tank plowing through the destruction in the town of Schweinfurt, Germany. All of the buildings have been damaged and the road is completely torn up, a result of constant bombing.

Photograph of W. B. Cummings, standing with a pipe in his mouth, in front of a brick wall.

Photograph of Angelo D'Andria and Roland Rickert holding Paul Koenigsberg's head over a large metal can. A vehicle and buildings are visible in the background.

Photograph of a 12th Armored Division and infantry soldiers moving into Weilheim, Germany. Buildings are visible in the background.

Photograph of Charles Markowitz and Jack Taylor standing on a dirt road in France. A building is visible in the background.

Photograph of a group of soldiers from A battery of the 92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron posing together in front of a building in Germany. They are, from left to right, Franklin McLard, Edward Mulvihill, Richard Martin, and Francis Henning.

Photograph of two tanks besides buildings is Strasbourg, Germany. The foremost tank has four soldiers emerging from various hatches. Two helmeted soldiers are visible from the chest up behind the tank's turret. Two other soldiers' heads can be seen sticking out of hatches near the front of the tank. Two of the men are identified as Joseph Prendergast and Kenneth Bradstreet.

Photograph of three soldiers identified as Dugan, Smith, and Dutch, sitting on a table somewhere in Germany.

Photograph of William Maggio and Harry Wainwright posing on a Jeep in Germany.

Photograph of a 12th Armored Division tank rolling into Erbach, Germany. The buildings on both sides of the road, and in front of the tank, have been reduced to rubble.

Photograph of two German soldiers, each holding a white handkerchief, surrendering to a 12th Armored Division soldier who points his gun at them. Train tracks are visible in the background.

Photograph of M/Sergeant Eugene Blumenshine and T/Sergeant John Davis kneeling in front of a large tree in a forest. The rear end of a truck is visible to the left.