The ship Robert Rowan (K-40) explodes after being hit by a German bomber off Gela, Sicily, July 11…

 Grave of the first American casualty on the beach, Gela, Sicily. July 12, 1943.

Crew from the tank "Eternity" check their vehicle after landing at Red Beach 2, Sicily. July 10, 194…

American soldiers looking at a dead German pilot and his wrecked plane near Gela, Sicily. July 12, 1…

Pvt. George Katere, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Pfc. Wm. Mosa, Wheeling, W. Va., and Jessie A. Hampton of Lo…

Cartoon on the Jeep of Cpl. Paul F. Penn with the face of Mussolini crossed out, two more to go! "Si…

Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery is bid a jolly farewell by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton at the Palermo, Sic…

Americans of Japanese ancestry with 100th Infantry Battalion, rest on a street in Leghorn, Italy, af…

Japanese-American infantrymen with 2nd Battalion, 442nd Combat Team, hike up a muddy French road to …

A team of Japanese-American G.I.'s fire 105mm Howitzer at Germans troops in support Infantry attack …

A Japanese-American unit moves out of its old command post. The unit-company F, 2nd Bn., 442nd Regim…

US Troop looking for German movements in the valley 200 yards away. Snow, rain and mud make life mis…

Members of Company I, 3d Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, U.S. First Army ride on a …

Churchill visited the American 9th Army, which formed a part of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's T…

American troops with 39th Infantry, 9th Division, 3rd Armored Division riding on the back of Sherman…

Troops and tanks with C Company, 27th Armored Infantry, 9th Armored Division, 1st U.S. Army enter En…

Halftrack with 9th Armored Division, 1st U.S. Army, move through Engers, Germany. Town was heavily m…

SS Panzer 103 Assault gun tank of the 4th Company moving to the Eastern Front with German SS combat …

Soldiers with 1st Army move across the Remagen Bridge into Germany, two knocked out jeeps in foregro…

Canadian infantry "Le Régiment de Maisonneuve" moving through Holten to Rijssen, Netherlands. Apr…

 Two anti-tank Infantrymen with 101st Airborne Infantry, dash past a blazing German gasoline traile…

American soldier, 2nd Lt. William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko with the Russian Army, show…

American and Russian officers dance with Red Army girls following dinner celebrating the meeting of …

Bavarian city of Nuremberg, following the cessation of organized resistance. In the distance, the tw…