 Lieutenant General George Patton watches operations from a Sicilian town in the front line accompanied by his staff; 1943. 


Town on the front line in Sicily

Soldiers of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division captured and inspect a StuG IV assault gun, that belonged to the SS Das Reich Division, in a French town named Marigny, a few miles west of  Saint-Lô; July1944.


Inspect a captured assault gun

American soldiers check for identifications on the bodies of dead U.S. troops, massacred by the Germans, on December 17, 1944, after they laid down their arms, near Malmedy, Belgium, during the battle of the Bulge.