Germany, 1945
An American soldier, PFC Douglas Page, offers a mocking Nazi salute inside the crumbling ruins of the Berlin Sportpalast, or Sports Palace. The venue, destroyed during an Allied bombing raid in January 1944, was where the Third Reich often held political rallies.
June 6, 1944
On D-Day, apprehensive GIs load onto a British landing craft for the invasion of Normandy. The Normandy landings, also known as Operation Neptune, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France and helped to secure an Allied victory on the Western Front.