Older folks of Saint Lô, France, show some French hospitality to a pair of U.S. soldiers by offering them a glass of wine; Normandy, France, 1944.  


Toast in the ruins

German soldiers throw their weapons onto a pile as they reach the point to surrender, watched by US soldiers; Germany, March 1945. 

Not needed anymore

American medical corpsmen treat a captured German paratrooper's shoulder wound during the Yanks' drive to relieve U.S. troops trapped in Bastogne, Belgium; Battle of the Bulge, January 6, 1945.