American communications corporal David Balberg poses at a road sign in Valognes, north-western France, in front of a sign for directions to Cherbourg (20 km north) and Montbourg (8 km south). On the sleeve of the corporal's jacket is the patch of a signal outfit. The corporal is armed with a Thompson M1 submachine gun, with a magazine for 30 rounds.

Under two road signs

The residents of the French city of Reims greet the American soldiers of Company B, 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 90th Infantry Division. The girls and children wear national costumes of Alsace and Lorraine (regions of France); 1944.

French greeting

Captured German medics carry one of their wounded under American escort into a Pow camp.