[Two Allied ambulance drivers knitting, near Cassino, Italy]

[American soldier carrying a child to safe refuge followed by group of people, near Cassino, Italy]

[Women fleeing fighting in the mountains, Moscoso Notch, near Cassino, Italy]

[Men of the joint U.S.-Canadian First Special Service Force carrying their dead and wounded down the mountainside, Radicosa, Italy]

[Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Division in an abandoned farmhouse they were using as field headquarters, Anzio, Italy]

[Soldier loading transports that would carry American troops from their ships to the beachhead, at anchor off Omaha Beach, Normany coast]

[American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy, France]

[American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy, France]

[Medical transport craft for men wounded in the first wave of American troops landing on D-Day, off Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[French fishermen looking at the bodies of some of the men killed during the D-Day landings, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben (left), the commander of the German garrison in Cherbourg, after having surrendered to the Americans, Cherbourg, France]

[General Matthew B. Ridgway (center, facing camera) discussing strategy with his staff, Cherbourg, France]

[Welcoming American troops, Alençon, Normandy]

[German soldiers surrendering to American troops, Cherbourg, Normandy]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, Normandy]

[German soldiers surrendering to American forces, Saint-Malo, France]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, Saint-Malo, France]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, Saint-Malo, France]

[French woman, who had had a baby by a German soldier, and her mother (left) punished by having their heads shaved, Chartres, France]

[General Charles de Gaulle addressing a crowd in the newly liberated town, Chartres, France]

[French civilians and members of the Resistance helping the French troops root out pockets of German snipers after the entry into the city of the French 2nd Armored Division, Paris]

[French civilian helping the French troops root out pockets of German snipers in street fighting after the entry into the city of the French 2nd Armored Division, Paris]

[German soldiers surrending to French forces, Paris]

[French troops and Resistance fighters in the liberated city, Paris]