An M4A3 Sherman medium tank of the 66th Tank Battalion, 2nd Armored Division backs aboard a U.S. Navy Landing Ship, Tank (LST) in England during the embarkation phase that necessarily preceeded crossing the English Channel. Note the U.S. Navy officer perched on the upper hinge of the ship's port side bow door.


Preparation for invasion

A long column of German POWs captured on the outskirts of Münster, (North Rhine-Westphalia) April 2, 1945.  The US 17th Airborne Division, employed in a standard infantry role and not in a parachute capacity, attacked Münster with the British 6th Guards Tank Brigade in a ground assault and fought its way into the contested city centre, which was cleared in urban combat on the following day.

Long line

T-4 Joseph F. Gorenc of Headquarters Company, 3rd Battaglion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division boards a C-47 Skytrain from the 98th Troop Carrier Squadron at Exeter in Devon, England.
