Third Army troops move into Angers, France on the 10th of August, 1944 after a successful attack that netted 2,000 prisoners.
 


Mop up

One of many Life’s photos of the Italian Campaign: American soldiers on a completely destroyed Apennines little Italian town flooded by mud after a storm. Victor Sierra

Mud and ruins

Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) meets on July 5th 1944 in Normandy with the men who planned and executed the Allied breakout: Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley (center), the commander of the American ground forces, and Major General J. Lawton Collins, the commander of the VII. Corps.
 
 
