Pfc Joseph E. Day (of Bellaire, Ohio) is holding a puppy named "Invasion" in a German helmet.
Photo taken July 14, 1944.

Unit mascot

These are the GIs of the US 35th Infantry Division who landed at Omaha Beach on 5-7 July 1944 and moved up to the front.  Photo taken before their first battles in Normandy on 11 July 1944 with the XIX Corps.

Moving to the front

A badly battered German soldier of a gun nest on the beach of northern France staggers out of his bunker under the watchful eye of a burly U.S. Army M.P. on June 10, 1944.