Troops of the 5th Engineer Special Brigade are embarking onto Landing Craft Assault (LCT) at Weymouth, Dorset in southern England. From there, they were transferred to the troop transport ship USS Thurston (AP-77), destined to sail to Omaha Beach in Normandy, France; May 1944.

Loading into landing craft

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the 442nd Infantry Regiment of the United States Army (made up of "Nisei" Japanese-Americans and Caucasian Officers) at a tent in a forest near the town of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France in the Vosges Mountains. This unit was one of the most highly decorated American units of WWII; November 17, 1944.

Tent in a forest

US Military Police stands guard at the Remagen side of the one-way pontoon bridge Rhine crossing, about a mile south-east from the now collapsed Ludendorff bridge. In the background, on the other side is the small town of Linz on the Rhine. - Between the flags on the ground is the emblem of the US III. Corps; Germany, April, 1945.