American soldiers advancing past jeeps on a road toward Cherbourg, France; 30 June 1944.

Cherbourg, here we come

A small group of US soldiers walk through a badly damaged street in a small town named Weisweiler, Germany, a few miles east of Aachen; 1944.

Small town in ruins

US troops move out of "Bocage" country during Operation Cobra, breakout from Normandy.
Operation Cobra was the codename for an offensive launched by the First United States Army (Lieutenant General Omar Bradley) seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy Campaign of World War II.