Departure of the impressive elements of
the 501st Tank regiment of the 2nd DB

The German counterattack had been halted near Haguenau, but now it is time to finish off one of the last sites of resistance in Alsace, the Colmar pocket.

After finalizing the plan of attack, perhaps in Rosheim, the 2nd DB leaves the snow-covered Romanesque town for the combat zone. Here, a Sherman M4A3(75) tank camouflaged in white to blend in better with the landscape.