[American fighter pilot, Tunisia]

[Representative of the Free French government at an Armistice Day celebration, Algiers]

[Group of children surrounding man, Agrigento, Sicily]

[Priest talking to group of men and boys, Agrigento, Sicily]

[Young men with weapons who attacked the retreating Germans as the Americans approached the city, Palermo, Sicily]

[American troops, surrounded by crowds, entering the city, Monreale, on the outskirts of Palermo, Sicily]

[Crowds greeting American troops upon entering the city, Monreale, on the outskirts of Palermo, Sicily]

[Boat that had been blown out of the water during an Allied bombing raid, Palermo, Sicily]

[People holding bread and walking down the street two days after the liberation of the city, Luigi Pirandello Square, Agrigento, Sicily]

[American troops marching toward strategic hilltop town that the Germans had determined to hold at all costs, near Troina, Sicily]

[Soldiers on recconnaissnace mission near stone steps, near Troina, Sicily]

[Soldier walking through field on recconnaissnace mission, near Troina, Sicily]

[Two soldiers in a hospital set up in a church, Maiori, Italy]

[Soldier in makeshift kitchen in a farmhouse at strategic outpost, Chiunzi Pass, above Maiori, Italy]

[American soldiers fighting resistance and crouching in underbrush, along road to Naples]

[People in front of the remains of the Central Post Office, where the Germans planted a time bomb that denotated after they abandoned the city, Naples]

[General Alphonse Juin (right), commander of the 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division, near Mount Pantano, northeast of Cassino, Italy]

[American soldier carrying a child to safe refuge, near Cassino, Italy]

[Soldiers from the joint U.S.-Canadian Special Service Force firing on German forces that had abandonded this village, outside Radicosa, Italy]

[Italian soldier guiding men from the joint U.S.-Canadian Special Service Force, Radicosa, Italy]

[Tank and ruined building, near Cassino, Italy]

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

[Bodies of some of the men killed in the first wave of American troops landing on D-Day, on board the U.S.S. Henrico, off Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[Allied soldiers, tents, and transport vehicles on the beachhead several days after D-Day, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France]