ARCTIC ARDENNES

Taken: JANUARY 1945

American infantrymen march behind a Sherman tank during redeployment in the Ardennes, in the midst of the Battle of the Bulge. Launched in December 1944 and codenamed ‘Wacht am Rhein’ by the German high command, the Nazi offensive was a last, desperate attempt to break through Allied lines and retcapture the vital port of

Antwerp in Belgium.