Local residents cheer US Forces entering their town of Barneville (25 miles south-west of Cherbourg), France; June, 1944.

Welcome to our town

A  US 7th Infantry Division soldier takes cover behind a Japanese Type 41 75mm mountain gun on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean. The body of a killed Japanese soldier lies at the cannon; January 31, 1944.

Enemy gun for defensive purpose

Young German soldiers - hungry and cold - taken captive by US Forces in the early part of 1945.