A 57mm anti-tank gun and a patrol of American GIs from the 30th Infantry Division peer eastward toward Maastricht, Holland from the outskirts of the community of Cadier-en-Keer in mid-September of 1944. The men belong to Company C, 1st Battalion, 117th Infantry Regiment.


Patrol at road junction

US soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division landing on the shores of Okinawa in LVT (Landing Vehicles Tracked) Amtracs (Amphibious Tracked) vehicles; April 1945.
 


Storming the beaches

American soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 9th Infantry Division pass through the center of the small village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont during the Battle of Normandy as a French teenager in the background shows off his collection of U.S. Army pins, given to him by passing soldiers. Sainte-Marie-du-Mont was the first French village liberated on D-Day (6 June 1944), by elements of the U.S. Army’s 8th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division and the 506th and 501st Parachute Infantry Regiments of the 101st Airborne Division. Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Manche, Lower Normandy, France. 11 June 1944. 