A litter bearing jeep of the 27th Infantry Division carries wounded from the combat area on Makin atoll, the northernmost island of the Gilbert Islands, Pacific Ocean; November 1943.

Transport the wounded

An American tank rolls over a Nazi banner laid out in the street after its crew helped take the town of Lembach, north-eastern France, near the German border; spring 1945. 


Banner not flying

A Sherman tank from the 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, gets its tracks repaired in the ETO. Of interest are the crew's gear piled on top of the tank and material hung on the sides to camouflage the tank.
taken from fb/WW2 A war to be won