[Allied soldier getting a shoeshine while another soldier and woman watch, Palermo, Sicily]

[Sicilian peasant telling an American officer which way the Germans had gone, near Troina, Sicily]

[Soldier on recconnaissnace mission on hillside, near Troina, Sicily]

[American soldiers watching artillery blasts on hillside, near Troina, Sicily]

[Man greeting first American troops to enter the town, Troina, Sicily]

[British surgical unit working in an operating room set up in a church, Maiori, Italy]

[Soldiers in and near foxholes, Chiunzi Pass, above Maiori, Italy]

[American soldiers fighting one of many pockets of resistance, along road to Naples]

[American soldiers carrying wounded soldier on stretcher, along road to Naples]

[American soldiers with weapons drawn outside house, along road to Naples]

[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]