Connecting to the people of the past through pictures
01 February, 2012
Snow and War
As if fighting in a war isn't bad enough--there's fighting a war in the snow.
American GIs on patrol, looking for German paratroopers in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, 1945. Source
A desolate, snowy trench on the Western Front, WWI. Source
Snowy trench, WWI. Source
Hungarian soldiers trying to move a truck through the snow, Hungary, 1939. Source
British paratroopers carry a comrade on a stretcher in Italy, 1944. Source
Tanks in the snow during the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945. Source
GI examining smashed equipment in a snowy field in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, 1945. Source
American 10th Army Div. Army ski patrol in a snow buggy on the Italian front, 1945. Source
Army ski patrol in the Appennine mountains, Italy, 1945. Source
Men with hot drinks sheltering from a blizzard, WWI. Source
Soldiers wrapping burlap sacks around their boots for traction on the snow, Korea, 1951. Source
American fighter planes on a snow-covered flight deck off Korea, 1951. Source
American soldier lying in the snow, taking a position to cover the rest of his patrol, Korea, 1951. Source
American soldiers walk along a snowy road, Belgium, 1945. Source
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