This photo was taken in late July 1944 after the liberation of St.Lo, Normandie. The American forces soon nicknamed this town 'The Capital of Ruins'. 

St.Lo.

Like the ancient Roman legionnaires once did, Private William Jerabek from Chicago enjoys the hot springs in the empirial bath cubicle of the Cornelius Baths of captured Aachen, late 1944.

Like the Roman legionnaires

During the morning of 6th June 1944, the war is now over for this German soldier. A medic from the 82nd Airborne Division offers him a cigarette.