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Foto van bord naast weg "This was the Siegfried line". Stempel achterop: "Fotohandel Morselt's drogisterij Borne"

Third U.S. Army tanks pass Dragon's Teeth of Siegfried Line. Tanks and half-tracks of the 11th Armered Division, Third U.S. Army, pass German tank traps and Dragon's Teeth as Lieutenant General George S. Patton's armor and men assaulted the main enemy defense belt in the Saar-Moselle triangle below Trior February 21, 1945.

A quiet day on the western front! Soldiers of a Siegfried line bunker do their washing under a camouflaged tent during a quiet, inactive day.

Mealtime in the first line! German soldiers having their meal in the first line at the Western front while the man in the background is doing his duty in looking for the enemy.

Chaplain hears confession of front-line U.S. soldier. Following Catholic services in captured Auersmacher, Germany, U.S. Chaplain John T. Fournie (right) of Sellville, Illinois, hears the confession of Private John T. Barry, Seventh U.S. Army field artilleryman of New York City. Auersmacher is six miles southeast of Saarbrucken, Siegfried Line town which served as the western anchor of the Seventh ...

Training for actual activity. German soldiers undergo a hard permanent training, to keep fit for those times when the quiet situation on the West Front may chance. An impression of such exercises near the Siegfried Line. A German squad attacking.

Washing for the sigfried line? French soldiers do their washing at a stream behind the western front, perhaps having in mind Britain's popular wartime song 'Hang Out Your Washing On the Siegfried Line'.