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(Henry Toluzzi/Stars and Stripes)

Dornheim, Germany, Sept. 29, 1951: A tank emerges from a LTC 1283 landing craft after having crossed the Rhine river during Exercise Jupiter. The three-day French directed war games have 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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