Seventh U.S. army armor and infantry enter Germany. One of the first infantrymen and tanks of the Seventh U.S.

Seventh U.S. army armor and infantry enter Germany. One of the first infantrymen and tanks of the Seventh U.S. Army to cross the German frontier in the offensive launches December 15, 1944, enter enemy territory near a border marker between France and Germany. The rifleman takes cover alongside the tank to fire at the enemy in Bienwald forest. The Seventh U.S. Army drove through the north cast frontier of Alsace December 15, 1944, west of the French border town of Wissembeurg and north of Lembach. Lauterburg, at the extreme tip of the French frontier, and Wissenbourg were cleared of the enemy December 16.