US troops coming ashore on the artificial harbor of Mulberry "A" (American) on D-Day+12 (June 18) on Omaha Beach at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, 1944.

Not quite on French soil...yet

American soldiers buying ice cream from a push-cart vendor in front of Notre Dame cathedral. Local Parisians look on with glee; Paris, France, September 1944.

Parisian ice cream

An American soldier poses at the wrecked German Panther tank (Pz. Kpfw. V) in front of the Cologne Cathedral.
 The Panther was hit on March 6, 1945 by the fire of an American tank during a battle in front of the Cathedral. 