A Feldwebel (segeant) with binoculars and a submachine gun and a soldier with a portable field radio in a foxhole; somewhere in the Soviet Union; 1943.

Advanced Forward Position

Wounded men wait at Buna, for evacuation after the battle of Buna–Gona - part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific Theatre. 1942.

Southwestern Pacific Ocean

Armor and vehicles roll on, while alomg the road infantry advances. Some of the soldiers carry Panzerfausts.

Activity on the Eastern Front

Sgt. Howard Snyder (left) and Cpl. Harold Keller (right) on Mt Suribachi, February 23, 1945. 
  It would be discovered years later that Keller was in the photo of the second flag raising. Howard Snyder was killed later in the battle for Iwo Jima.

Flagraising heroes

Journalist Ernie Pyle (third from left) trudges along with First Division Marines on a patrol in the interior of Okinawa; 8 April 1945. 
   Ten days later, the noted writer was killed by Japanese machine gun fire on the island of Ie Shima.

With his Marines

Soldiers dragging a small field gun (105 mm howitzer) ashore during the Nasugbu Beach (approx. 65 miles south of Manila) landings; 1945.

Invasion of the Philippines

A U.S. Marine sniper with a Springfield 1903A1 and Unertl 8-power scope

Enemy in cross-fire

Waiting for the next frequent kamikaze attack... Aircraft Carrier USS Essex; April 1945.

Near the the Japanese homeland

German soldiers in an anti-tank ditch at Lohshtedskogo forest. One of the many lines of defense in front of the sea fortress Pillau, Baltic Sea (Prussia,  the former Koenigsberg


Anticipating Soviet attack...

German soldiers in the shelters dug in the slopes of the anti-tank ditch in Lohshtedskogo forest, near the Fortress of Pillau; Baltic Sea (former Konigsberg)

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