Soldiers of the US Army march German POWs through the town of Hameln (20 miles south-west of the city of Hanover, Germany); April 7, 1945. 

In a town on the Weser

Soldiers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, US 82nd Airborne Division, at the Aid Station No. 2 with wounded, waiting on stretchers to be attended; In the first liberated town of Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France, June 1944. 

Wounded paratroopers

Ernest Taylor Pyle was a Pulitzer Prize - winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa; April 18, 1945.
In tribute to their friend, the men of the 77th Infantry Division - with whom he served - erected a monument that still stands at the site of his death.[