[Soldier on recconnaissnace mission looking through window, near Troina, Sicily]

[Soldiers sitting on ruined stone observation deck, Troina, Sicily]

[Soldier drinking water offered by uniformed man, Troina, Sicily]

[Funeral of twenty teenaged partisans who had fought the Germans before the Allies entered the city, Naples]

[Man in front of graffitied wall, Naples]

[Anti-fascist philosopher Benedetto Croce, Capri]

[Soldier of the 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division, near Mount Pantano, northeast of Cassino, Italy]

[General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (left), chief American liason officer with the 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division, with soldier, near Mount Pantano, northeast of Cassino, Italy]

[Soldiers and donkeys in rocky terrain, near Mount Pantano, northeast of Cassino, Italy]

[Two Allied ambulance drivers knitting, near Cassino, Italy]

[American soldier carrying a child to safe refuge followed by group of people, near Cassino, Italy]

[Women fleeing fighting in the mountains, Moscoso Notch, near Cassino, Italy]

[Men of the joint U.S.-Canadian First Special Service Force carrying their dead and wounded down the mountainside, Radicosa, Italy]

[Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Division in an abandoned farmhouse they were using as field headquarters, Anzio, Italy]

[Soldier loading transports that would carry American troops from their ships to the beachhead, at anchor off Omaha Beach, Normany coast]

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

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

[Medical transport craft for men wounded in the first wave of American troops landing on D-Day, off Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[French fishermen looking at the bodies of some of the men killed during the D-Day landings, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben (left), the commander of the German garrison in Cherbourg, after having surrendered to the Americans, Cherbourg, France]

[General Matthew B. Ridgway (center, facing camera) discussing strategy with his staff, Cherbourg, France]

[Welcoming American troops, Alençon, Normandy]

[German soldiers surrendering to American troops, Cherbourg, Normandy]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, Normandy]