he first wave of Marines at Saipan, on the Marianas - summer of 1944.

 Marines at Saipan

Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) meets on July 5th 1944 in Normandy with the men who planned and executed the Allied breakout: Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley (center), the commander of the American ground forces, and Major General J. Lawton Collins, the commander of the VII. Corps.
 
 


Commanders

Fifth Army engineers finish a bridge across a streambed in central Italy to replace the span destroyed by German demolitionists. In twenty months of fighting in Italy, the Allies would erect three thousand spans, with a combined length of fifty-five miles. This one took ten hours to build.
