SPRING CLEAN-UP. An artilleryman takes time out for a bath during a warm spring afternoon while other members of the 105-mm. howitzer crew remain near their piece.] [Illustration: GERMANY A MEDIUM TANK being ferried across the Moselle River (top). Artillery shelling Bingen (bottom). From 11 to 13 March the Third Army cleaned out the Germans who remained north of the Moselle. The Third Army next regrouped its forces and started an attack toward Bingen and Bad Kreuznach to prevent the enemy from retreating across the Rhine. The attack was then to continue southeast to secure a crossing site somewhere between Mainz and Worms. At the same time a drive to Kaiserslautern was to begin and Coblenz was to be reduced.] [Illustration] [Illustration: GERMANY ENEMY EQUIPMENT destroyed during the U. S. advance (top). Infantrymen moving on the double past a fire started by enemy shelling (bottom).] [Illustration] [Illustration: GERMANY A THREE-MAN ARTILLERY CREW preparing to fire a multipurpose 88-mm. gun captured in Germany.] [Illustration: FRANCE AND GERMANY LIGHT TANK M24 firing (top); medium tank M26 crossing a muddy field (bottom).] [Illustration] [Illustration: GERMANY SOLDIERS WATCHING VAPOR TRAILS left by bombers on their way to bomb Germany.] [Illustration: FRANCE INFANTRY MEN USING FOOTBRIDGES to cross a river while engineers complete a Bailey bridge. On 15 March three corps of the Seventh Army began attacks, one in the heart of the important Saar industrial area around Saarbruecken, the second driving toward Zweibruecken and Bitche, and the third from the Moder River.] [Illustration: GERMANY 75-MM. HOWITZER motor carriage M8 firing on enemy positions.] [Illustration: FRANCE TUBE AND RECOIL MECHANISM OF AN 8-INCH GUN M 1 on the way to the front.] [Illustration: FRANCE SEVENTH ARMY TROOPS ENTERING BITCHE (top). Infantrymen marching cross-country on their way to Germany (bottom).] [Illustration] [Illustration: GERMANY DRAGON’S TEETH, part of the West Wall defenses (top). Infantrymen climbing over obstacles as they advanced through the West Wall into Germany (bottom). The advance of the Seventh Army through the dense mine fields and fortification of the West Wall was necessarily slow.] [Illustration] [Illustration: GERMANY 155-MM. MOTOR GUN CARRIAGE M12 FIRING.] [Illustration: FRANCE AND GERMANY TWO TYPES OF MINE DETECTORS. At left, AN/PRS-1 type; at right, SCR 625 (top). Mine detectors were developed by the Signal Corps primarily for use by Engineer troops. Signal Corps repairmen splicing wires of an underground cable which was damaged by artillery fire (bottom).] [Illustration] [Illustration: GERMANY AND FRANCE