American soldiers lie on stretchers and sit propped against a sea wall on a secured part of the landing beaches, awaiting transportation back to England for treatment, after being wounded in the Normandy invasion; northern France, June 6, 1944.  
 

On the sand of Normandy beach

U.S. 29th Infantry Division troops move into the nearly fully destroyed German city of Jülich, located in the Rur (Roer) valley on the banks of the river Rur (Roer); Spring 1945.  


City of Jülich in ruin

A soldier of the US Army is clearing a German mine-field in Normandy, France; 1944.