A Sicilian peasant shows a soldier from the US 1st Infantry Division the direction of withdrawal of German units in the area of Troina, a village less than 20 miles south of the northern coast of Sicily, Italy; April 8, 1943. 


They went thataway...

US Army photographers are filming the historic meeting of American and Soviet soldiers on the Elbe river in Germany;  April 25, 1945.

Commemorating the event

101st Airborne Troops cover the approach on a strategic road with a 57-mm quick firing 6-pounder anti-tank gun in the Carentan, Normandy, France area; June 10, 1944.
   In the background, a GI is looking over a captured German StuG IV self-propelled gun.