History Of The U.S. Army In Pictures II

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Infantrymen of the 44th Division Seventh U.S. Army fire at snipers concealed in a building in Mannheim Germany during mopping-up operations on the day of its capture March 29 1945. On the far side of the street a soldier with a bazooka gun is about to fire a rocket at the position. The city was subjected to such heavy shelling and bombing that hardly a building remained intact. Mannheim is on the Rhine River 35 miles south of Mainz.