Friends. Young soldiers of the Wehrmacht-Heer at Sebastopol, 1942

GERMAN ARMY (Wehrmacht) 1

U.S. Marines carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher to be taken to an aid station while the fighting raged on during the battle for the island of Saipan; Mariana Islands, South Pacific. - July 1944.

Save a wounded Marine

The crew of an M8 armored car pauses to search the Normandy countryside for signs of enemy activity. Colonel Raff’s Force included a pair of M8s and four jeeps of the 4th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron; France, 1945.

Colonel Raff's Force

The American paratroopers under Colonel Ed Raff met unexpected resistance on D-Day and watched a glider-borne reinforcement effort take heavy fire.

Paratroopers on D-Day

General Patton’s wife, Beatrice, follows his casket through the train station in Luxembourg City en route to the nearby cemetery in Hamm, also Luxemburg...

General Patton's Funeral

Troops of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division in a transport ship, bound for Sicily in June, 1943. 

Cheerful in tight quarters

Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., U.S. 4th Infantry Division - is laid to rest in a temporary American cemetery near Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France; July 12, 1944.

Temporary Resting Place

Soldiers with the U.S. 526th Armored Infantry Battalion; Somewhere in Germany, Spring 1945.

Taking a rest during the advance

Americans will always fight...

US Marine War Dogs and their handlers, Bougainville, Solomon Islands 1943 

In the South Pacific

Jeep mounted with a Browning M1919 machine gun, somewhere in the Pacific, 1943-1945; note hulk of a Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank. 

Somewhere in the Pacific Warzone

Tony Bennett during his service in Europe with the U.S. 63rd Infantry Division in WWII.

Famous singer, who also served his country

Under the shadow of Mt. Suribachi, Seabees with the 133rd NCB (Naval Construction Battalion) bury their dead; February, 1945. 

All quiet now on Iwo Jima...

Soviet and US Troops Meet at Torgau, April 25, 1945. 
A US 69th Division captain shows the Russians where Torgau, Germany is. - In the middle: Major Anatoly Mikhailovich Ivanov, Chief of the Soviet Division Artillery Staff.

This is where we are, you see...?

General Eisenhower visited Patton at Bad Tölz, Germany and found that Patton had left SS soldiers in charge of concentration camp security. This visit, along with Patton’s public statements, led to his dismissal as commander of the Third Army; 1945.

Post war reshuffle

General Patton visits his son-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel John Waters, while the latter recuperates in Walter Reed U.S. Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. Waters had been held in a German prison camp for three years. Patton was reported to have attempted a rescue operation at one time.

General Patton's son-in-law...

German soldiers surrender to American Forces in a small French village in December 1944.

Surrender

General George S. Patton, Jr., greets General Lucian K. Truscott, (right) one of his most trusted divisional commanders; 1944.

Two grat generals...

General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his generals, including Lt. General Omar Bradley (far left) and Maj. General Leonard T. Gerow (between them), and Lt. Gen. Lawton J. Collins (far right); July 26, 1944.

Generals

Two American soldiers examine a German parachute found in an area where German paratroopers were dropped at the beginning of the Ardennes offensive in December 1944.

Evidence found

Need of Lumber

 American soldiers dig hasty foxholes in snow covered terrain as enemy fire opens up near Berismenil, Belgium. A dead soldier lies in the foreground; 25 December 1944 - 28 January 1945

Allied Counter Attack in the Ardennes

Troops and armor of the Canadian First Army cautiously enter a French town on February 28, 1945. The Germans had previously evacuated the area, but they later stood and fought the Canadians viciously. 

Canadians in a ruined town

With the capture of the town of Goch, Germany, near the Dutch border and the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division holding the Goch-Calcar road, Operation Veritable came to an end having only reached the Second Phase of the operation. First Canadian Army would regroup and prepare for the launch of Operation Blockbuster and the continuation of Phase Three of Veritable.

Canadian Forces massing on a forest road

General George S. Patton, Jr., stands proudly in uniform. He wears the four stars of his rank along with the insignia of the Third and Seventh U.S. Armies on his helmet; April, 1945. 

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