A destroyed German self-propelled gun smolders along the road leading from Neuville-au-Plain to Sainte-Mère-Église. Private John E. Atchley, H Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, was credited with destroying the assault gun with a 57mm antitank gun - the first time he had ever fired one. His courageous stand caused the Germans to halt their armored counter-attack against Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France; June 1944.

Knocked out German gun

A captain (right) in an 82nd Airborne Division medical unit  gives a cigarette to a wounded German soldier; near the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, north-western France; June 1944.

Kind-hearted captain

U.S. soldiers inspect a self propelled anti-aircraft gun: Panzerflak-Selbstfahrlafette (3,7 cm FlaK 43) mounted on a  PzKpfw IV « Möbelwagen » (Sd.Kfz. 161/3)  
The 3.7 cm Flak auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen IV (sf) (Sd.Kfz. 161/3), nicknamed Möbelwagen ("Moving Van") because of its boxy shape, was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun built from the chassis of the Panzer IV tank.