[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]

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

[Celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Man and boy on his shoulders watching the parade celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Soldiers and civilians on a tank in the parade celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[German soldiers captured by American forces during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[Two German soldiers captured by American forces during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[Soldier on snowy hillside during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[American paratroopers lying on a field, near Wesel, Germany]

[German farmers fleeing from their burning house, near Wesel, Germany]

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

[Two American paratroopers with wounded paratrooper, who probably crash-landed in a glider, near Wesel, Germany]

[Man taking a radio to the Tiergarten to sell on the black market, Berlin]

[Group of the women (Trümmerfrauen) engaged in clearing away the rubble in the ruined city, Berlin]

[Russian soldiers being photographed, Berlin]