American soldiers pass under a railway bridge in Vœllerdingen commune, north-eastern France; May 12, 1945.

Soldier carrying a machine gun 

Two American soldiers of the 16th Regiment, 1st Army, take cover, one in a doorway, the other next to a damaged German Pz.Kpfw tank. V "Panther" during the battles for the city of Bonn on the Rhine river, south of Cologne, Germany; March 9, 1945.

Strategic city

Medics from the American 101st Airborne Division and a British soldier from the XXXth Corps squat next to a wounded lying on stretchers in a ditch near the Dutch city of Son, close to Eindhoven. A convoy of trucks is standing nearby on the highway, and there is a battle ahead; September 20, 1944.