Two American soldiers observe the field ahead by looking out from a captured Japanese dugout; July 14, 1944.

Concealed position

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, visited the American headquarters located in a small estate west of the town of Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin, 10-15 km from the English Channel coast in Normandy, France; July 7, 1944.
   U.S. General Omar Bradley led the 12th Army Group since its inception - from 1.08.1944. This army group became the largest American formation in US history, with nearly 1.3 million troops by the end of the war.

The Prime Minister pays a visit

An American medic at a stretcher with wounded French civilians at a field hospital at La Houssaye farm, northern France; June 21, 1944.