Chronology of World War II
Wednesday, February 7th
US Soldiers In Action near Habscheid, Germany
Troops of the 359th Regiment, 90th US Infantry Division fire a water-cooled Browning M1917 heavy MG at German lines near the city of Habscheid, Germany. Note the pile of shell cases in front of the machine gunner and the ammo boxes waiting to be fed to the weapon. US volume of fire in the closing days of the war consistently overwhelmed the German defenders suffering from shortages of everything