Deutsche Kriegsgefangene

Nazi prisoners march to rear as Americans move forward.
Private Frank Kolly (center), military policman of the Third U.S. Army’s Fourth Armored Division, leads a group of Nazi prisoners to the rear as an American half-track rolls forward towards Bastegno, Belgium. Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s men stabbed north from the Saar front to relieve on December 27, 1944, the U.S. forces which held out at Bastegno for nine days against all German attacks. By December 31, the German counter-thrust into Luxembourg and Belgium had cost the enemy more than 15,000 men taken prisoner by U.S. forces. U.S. Signal Corps Photo ETO-HQ-44-31309. Serviced by London OWI to list B-1 certified as passed by shaef censor

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