Dornheim, Germany, Sep. 29, 1951: A jeep emerges from a LTC 1283 landing craft after having crossed the Rhine river during Operation Jupiter. The three-day French directed war games had some 150,000 Allied troops — including 45,000 Americans of the Army’s V Corps — enact a mass counterassault across the Rhine against “enemy” troops dug in on the east bank.

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