On 25 December 1944 Kampfgruppe Maucke, consisting of 17 or 18 tanks of 2. and 3.1Pz.Abt.115 and infantry from Pz.Gren.Rgt.115, attacked the US 327th Glider infantry Regiment’s lines around Champs, Belgium. The photographs were taken by I. Bonde of 35th Engineer (Combat) Battalion on 15 January 1945, his diary entry reads:“January 15th. Swede, Bruce & I went to Champs north of Bastogne. Took pictures in Bastogne. Found one beat up trailer, full of bullet holes. Took pictures of a few destroyed tanks, glider & C47. Very much wrecked equipment everywhere All in a ruin on outskirts of Bastogne. Many wrecked gliders everywhere. Bastogne was quite a mess. Many PWs coming in. Dead still lying around. Had load of mines & TNT on our truck. Could hear MGs plain.”
Photo 2:The caption for this photo indicates that the two Sturmgeschütz III Ausf.G, from 2.1Pz.Abt.115, we see here were : “knocked out by road mines”.