A German grave near Chartres, France. The hat on the stick is German and has a bullet hole. To the right of the grave is a German motorcycle sidecar. The grave most likely belongs to a dispatch rider. If it had been a GI, there would have been flowers or a flag.

War grave

A Central Italy’s cemetery, exact location unknown, battered by bombardments photographed by an American serviceman, 1944. Victor Sierra

Italian cemetery

Austrian women committed suicide out of fear of the advancing Red Army, April 1945