An 81-mm mortar battery of the 30th Infantry Division on the outskirts of Magdeburg, Germany. Prepared for firing on German positions.

81 mm mortars

US Major General Ralph Royce (holding the map), with military engineers on the beach in Normandy, the day after the Allied landings.
Ralph Royce (June 28, 1890 – August 7, 1965) was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II. 

Map conference

A column of German prisoners of war under the escort of US soldiers on the outskirts of the Italian city of Anzio.