United States Army personnel from the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), after arriving at the Dufferin Dock/ Spencer Dock area of Belfast Harbour. January 1942.

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Members of Company E, 2nd Bn., 30th Infantry Division crawl prone while crossing the open terrain near Pont, Belgium. Battle of the Bulge 1/17/1945.


Near Malmedy

Pathfinders, drop zone markers of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division; 1944.
  The pathfinder teams dropped approximately thirty minutes before the main body in order to locate designated drop zones and provide radio and visual guides for the main force in order to improve the accuracy of the jump. These navigational aids included compass beacons, colored panels, Eureka radar sets, and colored smoke.  When they jumped, the pathfinders often would encounter less resistance than the follow up waves of paratroopers, simply because they had the element of surprise on their side;   Once the main body jumped, the pathfinders then joined their original units and fought as standard airborne infantry.