Pfc. H. J. Finley and his war dog named Pfc. Jack, attached to the 2nd Marine Raider Regiment. - Photo by a fellow Marine, Pfc. P. Scheer; Bougainville, Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Islands Group, Pacific ocean, 8 December, 1943.

Recon and messenger companion

US Marines pose on top of Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima with the American flag; February 23, 1945.

At the "height" of victory

A US Marine Corps dog handler and his K9 partner, staying close to one another in the foxhole, so close, that the dog licks him on his face; The island of Saipan, Mariana Islands in the Pacific ocean, circa 1944.