Col. Walter T. Scott, commanding officer of the 101st infantry regiment, reads a surrender note from the German commander of the fort st. jeanne d'arc garrison while Brig. Gen. Harlan N. Hartness, assistant division commander, and capt. Angelo J. Mantenuto, Watertown, Mass,. look on,. The fort was the last to capitulate.

Gen. Hartness delivered the surrender terms to the german commander in a mutually proclaimed neutral area on december 13. the germans, with their food and ammunition stores utterly exhausted, surrenderd following heavy bombardment of the fort byt the yankee division.

Having succesfully completed their advance, gun and ammuntion bearers of the heavy machinegun squad scramble up masonry and steel ruble to assume a new position selected by the squad leader (the staff sergeant at the extreme left holding a bayoneted m1 rifle). Saarlautern, Germany

Shades of the roman legions! T/4 Alan J. Hamm ingenious YD'er, puts the finishing touches to his newly devised steel bow, which although quite heavy and akward, will hurl grenades much further than hand tossing.

The big push that was to carry the 26th Division across the Saar into some of the roughest fighting of the war was only a week away when Lt. Gen. G.S. Patton Jr. commanding general of the Third Army, assembled the division officers for a briefing near Hoeville, France.

Shortly after landing at Cherbourg Harbor, the Yankee Division was called upon to provide men and trucks for the famed Red Ball Express that was trying to keep up with Gen. Patton's rampaging Third U.S. army in supplies. In the photo above the Express is temporarily at a standstill awaiting the arrival of a wrecker to rescue a heavy truck out of a ditchnear alenqon, France

although some sources say this picture is Infantrymen of the 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division take a moment to make a snapshot showing their Combat Infantry Badges during the Battle of the Bulge. no official record of this picture exists.