Soldiers of the 39th Infantry Brigade as part of the US Army’s 3rd Tank Division cross the Siegfried Line during fighting against the Wehrmacht Armed Force of the Third Reich of the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. In the foreground of the photo is the American-made Sherman medium tank (M4A2 Sherman). The Western Front of the Second World War in Europe.
The Siegfried Line (Western Wall) is a system of German long-term fortifications built in the West of Germany in 1936-1940, in the border strip from Kleve city to Basel city.
Location of photo: Nazi Germany (Third Reich)
Date of the photo: September 1944