U.S. troops advancing in Normandy, France, pause in a battle-scarred area to scan the road with field glasses before moving forward in their M-8 Greyhound 6x6 Light Armored Car, circa June-July 1944.

What is ahead?

US Fifth Army vehicles - jeeps, 3/4 ton Weapon Carrier (WC-51) truck, M8 armored car, trucks - on the Appian Way, passing through the bomb damaged city of Formia, Italy; 19 May 1944.
   Formia is a city and commune in the Mediterranean coast of Italy, halfway between Rome and Naples.   
It was badly damaged in 1943–44 in bombing operations and during Battle of Anzio.


Passing through what was a city

An M8 Greyhound armored car of the 30th Infantry Division passes through the small village of Leinsweiler, Germany. At left, a disabled German Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G (or StuG) - meaning "assault gun" - was pushed off the road into a ditch; 21 November, 1944.
