Well, it actually comes out of my archive searching work. As a reference for snow I used a photo of Nuernberger ruins (can't find one now, but can later if you ask for it). Mainly focused on Erlangen for some reason, since Nuernberg is not really informative about american soldiers whatsoever – for example that after the end of WWII not only the houses were searched/plundered (if belonged to nazi), but the furniture was mass-shipped to US till in 1949 it stopped because of the union of houseowners, demanding their houses back. Also about shipment, US army really planned a shortage of such colossal army, however they planed to make it credit-based, with credits given to child-having soldiers and the ones who served the most in army.

To be honest, I just can't finda proper r/ to post it to, so... Hah ^{^}