A U.S. M10 Wolverine tank destroyer of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion fires its 76mm cannon at point-blank range to silence a German pillbox blocking the Allies' path through a Brest (France) street (summer 1944).

Battle for Brest

Townspeople of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany (France) welcome the crew of a Third Army tank, still bearing steel blades for slicing through Normandy hedgerows.
 


Third Army tank

Another Life’s photo of the Italian Campaign: Central Italy, August 1944, an US Army’s M5 Stuart light tank advances on a dusty way of a destroyed village followed by a DUKW amphibious truck likely during the operations against the Gothic Line. Notice the Jeep marching backwards sign that the village is already conquered by the Allied forces. Victor Sierra