[American soldiers crossing road, Normandy]

[French farmer offering cider to men of an American armored unit, Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly, France]

[Cow in the middle of a street lined with ruined buildings, Normandy]

[Men with guns, near Chartres, France]

[American soldiers guard a group of captured Germans, southwest of Saint-Lô, Normandy]

[American chaplain and a dying German soldier, Normandy]

[American military policeman searching a captured German SS officer, Normandy]

[French men and women, with shaved heads, who had collaborated with the Germans in the Préfecture de Police, Chartres, France]

[French woman, carrying the baby she had by a German soldier, was punished by having her head shaved, Chartres, France]

[French woman, who had a baby fathered by a Germany soldier, being marched through the streets after being punished by having her head shaved, Chartres, France]

[Welcoming the French troops, Paris]

[French troops and Resistance fighters flushing the last of Germans out of the area between the Invalides and the Palais Bourbon, Paris]

[French civilian attacking a German soldier who was rooted out during street fighting, Paris]

[Celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[General Charles de Gaulle leading the parade down the Avenue des Champs-Elysées to celebrate the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Crowd on the pavement after snipers in buildings overlooking the Place de l'Hotel de Ville opened fire on the triumphal parade, Paris]

[Farmer burying his horse, which had been killed during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[American paratroopers flying over the Rhine from France, to spearhead the Allied invasion of Germany]

[American paratroopers spearheading the Allied invasion of Germany, near Wesel, Germany]

[American paratroopers caught in trees, near Wesel, Germany]

[American paratrooper lying on the ground next to his parachute, which is caught on a wire, near Wesel, Germany]

[American paratroopers who had crash-landed in gliders, near Wesel, Germany]

[German farm couple seeking refuge from the fighting, near Wesel, Germany]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, near Wesel, Germany]