Paratroopers from the US 101st Airborne Division move through the town of Carentan, Normandy, France immediately after the D-Day invasion; June 1944.

War damage noticeable

Soldiers of the US 1st Army are sitting on a German self-propelled assault gun (Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G), knocked out as a result of the bombing by aircraft of the 9th US Air Force, near the German village of Mödrath, 10 miles west of Cologne. 
In the background on the left is the same German self-propelled fighting vehicle; 1945.

Fun on top of a fearsome monster

 A US Army patrol in the Aitape area move up along a beach across the mouth of a river to locate and eliminate trapped Japanese forces in the area; 7 August 1944.