The French Tricolour floats over a street in Carentan, the first French town to be liberated by the Americans. French civilians wave their hands in welcome as men of the US 7th Corps pass through the streets after two days of bitter fighting The capture of Carentan materially strengthened the link between the two American beachheads.

French inhabitants show welcome

Soldiers and armor of the 35th Infantry Division cross the shallow Marne-Rhine Canal in northern France, west of Strasbourg; September 16, 1944.

Wet feet in shallow water

Infantry and armor of 411th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division, move on in the vicinity of the village of St. Michel, southern France.