U.S. Army medics run from the field with a wounded soldier as artillery smoke rounds cover their presence from German observation. The typical batallion aid station was normally no more than five hundred yards behind the front lines.

U.S. Army medics

Two American officers enjoy a hometown newspaper that somebody mailed them. For most front-line soldiers in World War II, their knowledge of the world around them was restricted to a few thousand yards around their current position.

Hometown newspaper

Under fire, American soldiers hug the ground in the ruins of Rennes, the capital city of Brittany, France in August 1944.