A US soldier carries an M1917 Browning heavy machine gun and ammunition near Utah Beach; Normandy, France – June 1944. 

Utah Beach area

Soldiers of Task Force Linden (Company I, 242nd Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division) prepare for action at their log-and-dirt bunker near the commune of Kauffenheim, north-eastern France; January 8, 1945. 

Shelter from the cold and the enemy

A US soldier is posing with two Soviet female soldiers at a sign, where the two sides - the Americans and the Soviets - first  met. The sign written in Russian indicates the "River Elbe"; near the city of Torgau, Germany, April 25, 1945.