An American version of a sidewalk cafe, in fallen La Haye du Puits, France on July 15, 1944, as Robert McCurty, left, from Newark, New Jersey, Sgt. Harold Smith, of Brush Creek, Tennessee, and Sgt. Richard Bennett, from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, raise their glasses in a toast. 

Break for a toast

American dead lie in a French field, a short distance from the allied beachhead in France on June 20, 1944. 

American dead

Near St. Jores, France, 90th Division infantrymen inch forward, while flanked by a tank, during the early stages of the push through Normandy - July 1944. texag57