Two First Sergeants of the US Fifth Army having a brief conversation with one of the members of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican; Rome, Italy, 1944.


US soldiers and the guard of the Pope

An American medic at a stretcher with wounded French civilians at a field hospital at La Houssaye farm, northern France; June 21, 1944.

Army medic checks wounded civilians

American soldiers and pilots at a German Pz.Kpfw. V "Panther" on the road to  Pont-Hébert, 5 miles north of Saint-Lô, France. Next to the tank are the pilots of the P-47 Thunderbolt fighters  At the beginning of the battle for Normandy, the pilots asked to point out to them the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of German tanks; July 1944.