[Rear command post of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division, Venafro, Italy]

[American soldier from the joint U.S.-Canadian Special Service Force bandaging the foot of a shepherd who had been injured by German forces that had abandonded this village, Radicosa, Italy]

[German soldier who had been killed during the Allied landing, Anzio, Italy]

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

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

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

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

[Transporting a barrage balloon, to be moored over the harbor to confuse enemy aircraft and to prevent them from flying in low, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[German soldier captured by American forces, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[German soldiers captured by American forces burying some of the men killed during the D-Day landings, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[Using the hood of a jeep as an altar, a Roman Catholic chaplain saying mass at the inauguration of an American cemetery, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[German general surrendering to American officers, Normandy]

[American soldiers amid rubble, Normandy]

[American soldiers in woods, Normandy]

[French civilians returning to their liberated town, near Gavray, Normandy]

[Women with bundles walking on rubble-strewn street, Normandy]

[Interior of rubble-filled church, Normandy]

[American solder resting after a town has been liberated from the Germans, Normandy]

[French prostitute following her captured German customers, Saint-Malo, France]

[Soldier leading Frenchwoman who had collaborated with the Germans to the Préfecture de Police to have her head shaved, Chartres, France]

[Early on the morning of the day on which Paris would be liberated by the French 2ème Division Blindée (2nd Armored Division), the division's commander General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc (second from left) confers with his staff, south of Paris]

[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 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 civilians and members of the resistance 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]