Brave American soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The Allied Invasion of Normandy, France was the largest seaborne invasion in history 

Storming The Beaches of Normandy

General Omar Bradley (center) with General George Patton  (left) and General Bernard Law Montgomery (right); 1944.

Meeting on further strategy

Captured German Infiltrator, December 1944. These German soldiers wearing GI uniforms were summarily shot. They caused havoc behind allied lines. That was their mission...

Captured in the Battle of the Bulge

U.S. infantrymen of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division,  U.S. First Army, crouch in a snow-filled ditch, taking shelter from a German artillery barrage during the Battle of Heartbreak Crossroads in the Krinkelter woods on 14 December 1944.

Preceeding the Ardennes Offensive

Pvt. Roy McDaniels, of Hartford City, Indiana, keeps a lookout for enemy activity from a 30th Infantry Division observation post in Stavelot, Belgium; December 1944.

Battle of the Bulge Offensive

A U.S. soldier trudges along a muddy road to Metz, eastern France. Some of the most difficult fighting on the Western Front took place in and around Fort Driant; Autumn 1944.

The Fort, that halted the Third Army

Over Japanese-built foot bridge walk Americans on patrol. It connects Entrance Creek Island with Buna Mission (Buna Government Station). One end of it was blown up by the Japanese; Americans repaired it. December. 1942.

Papua New Guinea

Packed in a Navy LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) the US Third Army infantrymen cross the Rhine River near Boppard, Germany on March 25, 1945.
   The Navy would ferry more than 26 000 troops to the east bank of the river, greatly facilitating the Western Allies' drive to the heart of Nazi Germany.

Crossing the Rhine river

Wounded men wait at Buna, for evacuation after the battle of Buna–Gona - part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific Theatre. 1942.

Southwestern Pacific Ocean

Soldiers dragging a small field gun (105 mm howitzer) ashore during the Nasugbu Beach (approx. 65 miles south of Manila) landings; 1945.

Invasion of the Philippines

A US truck towing a field kitchen drives aboard an LST (Landing Ship Tank) at Brixham in Devon during preparations for the invasion of Europe, June 1944.

Normandy bound field kitchen

Two paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division wait for takeoff on their C-46 during Operation Varsity. March 23, 1945. One of them is holding a "grease gun"

Stern faced young guys

U.S. soldiers keep an eye as a group of German prisoners are marched to the ships to take them back to England to POW camp; Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944.

POWs heading to ships

After crossing the English Channel and dropping anchors off Normandy from 3:15 am, the USS Samuel Chase took the men on board and transferred them to LCVP landing crafts, bound for Omaha Beach, including photographer Robert Capa; June 6, 1944. - These crafts then return with wounded soldiers to be taken back to Weymouth, England, the next day...

Onward to Omaha Beach

A DUKW - 6-wheel amphibious vehicle - and a jeep with MPs at the entrance of the commune of Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France. June 1944.

In the heart of Omaha Beach

Right at the water's edge, Army doctors administering first aid to this - one of the many - young soldier. Fox Green sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, France; June 6, 1944.

One of the combat casualties

American soldiers, mainly from the 29th Infantry Division, that landed with the initial waves, take shelter at the relative safety of some cliffs on Fox Green section of Omaha Beach. Available medics treat them for minor injuries as needed; Normandy, June 6, 1944.


Set foot on French soil

American soldiers posing with a captured mortar they used to knock out a German 85mm gun; 25 February, 1945.

New owners of a formerly enemy weapon

Two American soldiers guarding a road junction with a .50 caliber M2 machine gun. Somewhere in the Ardennes; Belgium, 2 January, 1945.

During the Battle of the Bulge

A Sicilian resident welcomes two US soldiers with a pitcher of wine, in the town of Gela; July 1943.

Get rewarded by friendly locals

Three American soldiers laying one of their fellow soldiers to rest in an American cemetery in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium; March 1945.

May he rest in peace

Soldiers of the 322nd RCT, 81st "Wildcat" Infantry Division, holding a captured Japanese Flag on Angaur Island, Marianas Group, Pacific Theater of Operations; October, 1944.

A Prize to show off with...

Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, flanked by two unidentified airborne officers; His reply - to the German commander's demand, that the 101st Airborne Division surrender at besieged Bastogne - was a resounding "NUTS".

Belgium, December 1944.

US Soldier opens a Christmas package; Ardennes, Belgium 1944.

Gift to lift the fighting spirit

Flight Nurse 2nd Lt. Reba Whittle, the only American female POW in Europe, flew with troops from the front lines of Europe back to the safety of the English countryside.

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