"A platoon of Negro troops surrounds a farm house in a town in France, as they prepare to eliminate a German sniper holding up an advance. Omaha Beachhead, near Vierville-sur-Mer, France."

"A platoon of Negro troops surrounds a farm house in a town in France, as they prepare to eliminate a German sniper holding up an advance. Omaha Beachhead, near Vierville-sur-Mer, France.", 06/10/1944

"Negro assault troops await orders D-day to attack enemy shortly after they had come ashore at Saipan in the Marianas.", 06/1944

WWII: Europe: France; "U.S> Troops land at Normandy"

SC 190266 - American assault troops set up a command post in the shadow of a silenced enemy pillbox, one of the obstacles that had to be overcome in the invasion of the French coast. Omaha Beach, France.

SC 192096 - A patrol of American infantrymen scout through the town of Coutances, France, while it is still under German 88mm fire. 29 July, 1944

Photograph of a BAR Gunner Entering a Building Suspected of Housing Snipers in Percy, France

SC 191912 - Hidden behind a hedgerow on the outskirts of St. Lo, where American forces are engaged in a fierce offensive to win the German stronghold, a Yankee infantryman wields a light machine gun against infiltrating Germans

SC 192156 - Infantry patrol hugs hedgerow by lane in St. Lo, France, as German artillery shells burst overhead. Germans were using timed fire from gun emplacements south of city. 23 July, 1944