Elderly lady, as a gratitude, pours milk for US soldiers in the Normandy area of France; 1944.

Grandmotherly gesture

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. 

Through a small French village

Colonel (soon later General) James Van Fleet pins a 2nd Silver Star on a soldier by the name of Howard Pemberton, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division; 1944.