Archive photo of the day
Exercise Jupiter, 1951
Stars and Stripes
July 15, 2022
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.