Under fire, American soldiers hug the ground in the ruins of Rennes, the capital city of Brittany, France in August 1944.

Street fight

U.S. Army medics run from the field with a wounded soldier as artillery smoke rounds cover their presence from German observation. The typical batallion aid station was normally no more than five hundred yards behind the front lines.

U.S. Army medics

An American team in charge of a M2 4.2 inch mortar turns away from the launch blast as they attack enemy positions somewhere in France in the summer of 1944.