French soldiers (from the unit of colonial units – Tirailleurs algériens) treat the American soldiers with sweets during a meeting in Rouffach (now in France).
On February 5, US troops joined the 1st French Corps, completing the encirclement of the German troops at Colmar Pocket and the Colmar operation as a whole. The remains of four German divisions were surrounded and captured and the other half of the German group, having suffered considerable losses, withdrew to the right bank of the Rhine.
Source of Colmar Pocket: National Archives of the United States.
Location: Ruffach, Germany
Date: February 5, 1945