A US soldier kissing a little French girl - and vice versa. Behind them young women are dancing with apparent joy. Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Brittany, France; 15 August 1944.

A kiss is a kiss

"Infantrymen of the 26th Infantry Division, 3rd U.S. Army, ride into action on an M8 Greyhound armored car. Just behind them a mortar crew has gone into action. Near Neustadt, Germany." -- 328th Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division. April 5, 1945. Taken by Pvt. T. R. Romero.

328th Infantry

An American M.P. standing on a large pile of Italian weapons on a street in Palermo, Italy, on August 6, 1943. Palermo, a strategic port, fell on July 20, only 10 days after the Allied invasion of Sicily.