Infantry and armor of 411th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division, move on in the vicinity of the village of St. Michel, southern France.

Village in Southern France

The French Tricolour floats over a street in Carentan, the first French town to be liberated by the Americans. French civilians wave their hands in welcome as men of the US 7th Corps pass through the streets after two days of bitter fighting The capture of Carentan materially strengthened the link between the two American beachheads.

French inhabitants show welcome

An M4 Sherman medium tank moves down a street in Brouvelieures, France, 29 October 1944. An M-8 Armored Car appears to be behind the tank.
   Brouvelieures is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France, near the German border, just west of Strasbourg.
 
