American soldiers are preparing to celebrate Christmas of 1942 in Buna, Papua New Guinea. The improvised palm Christmas tree is decorated with surgical cotton wool, ration cans, cigarette cartons and packs, post cards...

Finding joy far away

Officers of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division pose for a group picture, before getting ready to board their planes to jump into Normandy, France; June 5, 1944.


Before boarding

This is an expanded photo of the one already posted: The military commandant of the city of Saint-Malo (Brittany, north-western France), Wehrmacht colonel Andreas von Aulock (1893-1968) exits the American jeep upon his return from US Headquarters, where he surrendered his unit to American Forces; June 1944. 