Bodies of fallen American soldiers lie on the ground in Normandy, France as graves are dug.

Far away from home...

Two soldiers of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division guard a group of teenage German POW's near Dausfeld, vicinity of Prüm area, west of Cologne, Germany. 1945


Former defenders of the Fatherland, now POWs

Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast.