Operation Flashpoint was the Ninth United States Army part of Operation Plunder, the crossing of the lower Rhine by the 21st Army Group during March 22–28 March 1945, in the last months of World War I
Crossing the Rhine (22-28 March 1945)
U.S. 9th Army crossing the Rhine River (M2, steel treadway, pontoon bridge, late March, 1945)
The 8th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army that served in the European Theater of World War II.
US Infantrymen undergoing rifle instruction
US soldiers in the Netherlands, January 1945, showing the conditions men of the 8th had to contend with in their march across France and the Low Countries.
8th Armored M4A3 76(w) HVSS Sherman Tank