Operation Dragoon - An M8 armored car sporting its 37-mm cannon and .50 caliber machine gun rolls onto the beach at the Bay of Pampelonne. - Ford and Chrysler developed the M8. More than 11,000 were used in Europe in support of infantry assaults.


Invasion of Southern France

Soldiers of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division clear a street of German defenders in Brest, France, August 1944.

House to house

Group of German PoWs carry a wounded buddy while under guard on their way to a POW camp.Germany,March 1945(rudeerude)