"Soldiers of the 161st Chemical Smoke Generating Company, U.S. Third Army, move a barrel of oil in preparation to refilling an M-2 smoke generator, which spews forth a heavy cloud of white smoke. These men are engaged in laying a smoke screen to cover bridge building activities across the Saar River

SC 270636 - Rhine Crossing- Seventh Army mortar squad runs for river bank through heavy protective smoke screen, to assault boats which will take them across the Rhine

SC 364269 - Troops of the 87th Chemical Mortar firing on enemy tanks in close support of the 121st Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, First U.S. Army. 28 February, 1945

American mortar crew in action near the Rhine, 1945

U.S. Marines move forward after effective close-air support flushes out the enemy from their hillside entrenchments. Billows of smoke rise skyward from the target area. Hagaru-ri.

Members of a tank destroyer unit load their weapon on one of the approaches to Metz, the German fortress city which fell before the combined American Air and Ground attack on 11/22/44. During the 15 day assault on the city, 9th Air force

SC 364608 - Heavy 81mm mortar firing into Jap positions across the Tsinamutu River, near Kuraio Mission, Bougainville. 24 February, 1944

Bodies of U.S. officers and soldiers slained by the Nazis after capture near Malmedy, Belgium.

WWII: Europe: Germany; "U.S. Third Army iruns throuhg smoke filled streets in Wernberg"