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 …