A detachment from the 101st Airborne Division with a tracked vehicle occupies the first of many French villages and towns to come.

101st Airborne troops

Jan. 21, 1943:  Native stretcher bearers rest in the shade of a coconut grove as they and the wounded American soldiers they are carrying from the front lines at Buna, New Guinea take the opportunity to relax. The wounded are on their way to makeshift hospitals in the rear.


The wounded

May 11, 1943: American invasion troops of the 7th Infantry Division approach a landing area code-named Beach Red in the western arm of Holtz Bay, on Japanese-occupied Attu island in Alaska. 
