A US soldier is posing with two Soviet female soldiers at a sign, where the two sides - the Americans and the Soviets - first  met. The sign written in Russian indicates the "River Elbe"; near the city of Torgau, Germany, April 25, 1945.

Eeast meets West

A US soldier carries an M1917 Browning heavy machine gun and ammunition near Utah Beach; Normandy, France – June 1944. 

Utah Beach area

GIs take aim at a German tank with a bazooka during the Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes; Belgium, December 28, 1944. 