Photo of the Day
No. 352
These battle-weary Americans, shown on July 4, 1944, are fighting to liberate the French village of La-Haye-du-Puits from entrenched German occupiers.
Four more days of house-to-house fighting lay ahead before they will prevail.
These men will then advance towards Saint-Lo, a strategic crossroads and the door to central France, fighting across hedgerows …
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