44th Infantry Division soldiers are in position and waiting with a 57 mm anti-tank gun, near a cemetery, in the town of Siersthal, north-eastern France.

Anti-tank gun and crew

Artillerymen from the 12th Armored Division take a break next to their 57-mm anti-tank weapon in north-eastern France, near the German border.

Anti-tank gun

155-MM. HOWITZER Ml ON CARRIAGE M1, on Tinian in the Marianas, 28 July 1944. The assault on Tinian was made on the morning of 24 July. By evening o£ the 27th the two divisions ashore had control of half the island. Enemy resistance, light at first, increased as the high ground in central part of the island was reached. On 1 August the remaining part of the island was overrun.