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Ninth Army troops advance toward Rhine. Infantrymen of the 84th Division, Ninth U.S. Army, advance out of battered Baal, Germany, toward the industrial town of Erkelenz, which was cleared of enemy resistance February 26, 1945. Ninth Army troops reached the Rhine River March 2 after a swift drive that cleared scores of enemy villages.

Shattered church in Reich town. Two Ninth U.S. Army infantrymen, Corporal Lawrence E. Fowler of Berkely, California, and Private Kenneth O'Neil of Savananna, New York, inspect a roofless church in Baal, Germany. Baal was captured by Ninth Army troops driving toward Erkelenz, Nazi industrial town seized February 26, 1945. During an advance to the Rhine River.