Mortar squad of the Company E, 2d Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division) pause to eat C Rations near Bettendorf, Luxembourg.
L-R: Private First Class Ray Cottingham (Kokomo, Indiana); Private John W. West (Atlanta Georgia); and Private James J. Kudrne, Jr. (Brookfield, Illinois).

Date: 25 January 1945

Thanksgiving chow went as far forward as there were troops. Sergeant Frank Shiborski, 107th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, from 5007 Central Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, a 50 Cal. Machine Gunner, takes time out from looking for Germans to do a little special duty on a drum stick somewhere near San Marcello Pistoiese, Italy.

Date: 22 November 1944