[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]

[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]