The United States and its allies in World War II (1943-1944)

American bombers at the airfield before taking off on a combat mission.

Pilots meeting to set the combat mission.

Map of Rome showing objects not subject to air attack, plotting objects on the map.

Bomber pilot walking toward the plane.

American bombers approaching the target.

Pilot at the controls.

Gunner at the machine gun.

Pilot and navigator in the cockpit.

Dropping bombs.

View of part of one of the quarters of Rome during the bombing (from above), bombers in flight.

Pilot at the controls.

Bombers approaching the target.

View of part of the Normandy coast after the Allied landings on June 6, 1944, wrecked landing craft, corpses of soldiers at the water's edge.

American soldiers evacuate a wounded comrade on a stretcher to a field medical center.

Medical orderlies provide assistance to the wounded, setting up an IV drip in the field.

One of the landing craft aground.

Providing medical assistance to wounded German prisoners.

German prisoners of war sitting on the pebbles of the beach, a seriously wounded German soldier.

Faces of German prisoners of war.

British soldiers landing on one of the sections of the coast from a landing barge.

American and British military leaders on board a warship, among them General D. Eisenhower.

Mooring side by side.

Meeting Field Marshal Montgomery on board an American ship.

German barges and ships with military cargo under fire from Allied aircraft during Operation Overlord (top).

Allied aircraft dropping bombs.

Burning napalm.

Forests and fields of France (panorama, top).

American paratroopers before the jump.