U.S. infantrymen, backed by a column of M10 tank destroyers, wait in the tall grass of a field near Saint-Lô, July 1944

U.S. infantrymen get a lift from Sherman tanks during the breakout from Normandy, August 1944

Troops of the British 1st Corps filing through Pont l'Évêque, Fr., in the wake of the retreating German army, August 1944

Citizens of Paris fashion a barricade from cobblestones, August 1944

Charles de Gaulle in triumph, Paris, August 26, 1944

Sherman tank crosses a pontoon bridge over the Seine River, August 1944