Waffen-SS and Fallschirmjager troops in action

(18 Dec 1944) 111 ADC 2949 Waffen-SS and Fallschirmjager troops in action on 18th December 1944, the third day of Hitler's Ardennes offensive on 6. SS Panzer Armee's front on the northern shoulder of the Bulge: Shots laid on for the camera showing SS-Grenadiers from Kampfgruppe Hansen (I/SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment-1), wearing mottle camouflage uniforms, and thick winter greatcoats, advancing past burning and disabled M3 half-tracks, M8 armoured cars, jeeps, M5 Stuart light tanks and 3-inch anti-tank guns from Task Force Mayes (14th US Cavalry Group) on the road between Recht and Poteau near St Vith, sharing captured American cigarettes with men from 3. Fallschirmjager Division - a Jagdpanzer IV self-propelled gun armed with the long L/70 cannon is seen by-passing the wrecked US column and heading across-country. 10:13:14 Shots showing two Panzer 38 (t) 15cm sIG 33 self-propelled guns from bombarding US positions from a field outside Recht and two young radio o