American infantrymen who came ashore at Utah Beach go house to house in a Normandy village looking for Germans lying in ambush, June 1944. After the men of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6 were forced to pull back from Ste.-Mère-Église to St.-Côme-du-Mont, they made a “last stand” at Carentan, not far from Cherbourg, France. 


Clearing village from snipers

Rows and rows of tough and determined looking American soldiers marching along the quayside after disembarking at a North Ireland port on May 16, 1942.
