Lieutenant General Omar Bradley (US Army) on the navigation bridge of USS Ancon (AGC-4), en route to the invasion of Sicily, 7 July 1943. With him is Captain Timothy Wellings, USN. US Naval History and Heritage Command

Oversee the landings

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.

During Operation Market Garden

Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, U.S. Army (left),
Commanding General, Fifth Army, and
Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN,
Commander Task Force 85
On board USS Ancon (AGC-4) during the Sicily operation, July 1943.
In the right background is Captain Paul L. Mather, USN, Ancon's Commanding Officer.