Six soldiers pose at a dug-in anti-tank gun position in an open European field, the muddy earthworks and hand-painted nickname on the barrel reflecting the makeshift, personalized character of frontline gun crews. Likely members of the 101st Airborne Division, these men may have manned this position during the fighting in the Netherlands in the fall of 1944 or the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium that winter. Such emplacements, quickly dug to provide cover and a stable firing platform, were essential to defending airborne positions against German armor. Project: 218676