American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division pause for a communal field meal beside a heavily wired compound, likely during occupation duty in Germany in the closing months of World War II. Scenes such as this, set against barbed-wire enclosures once used to hold prisoners or secure military stores, capture the everyday rhythms of soldiering that followed the division's combat campaigns in Normandy, Holland, and the Ardennes. Project: 218676