A Japanese soldier on Tarawa atoll is willing to surrender rather than to commit suicide as two Marines pull him out of the bunker, while others have their weapons at the ready.

Surrender to stay alive

A group of 2nd Armored Division GIs find the time to relax and sing along, while one of them plays the piano in the occupied French town of Barenton, about 20 miles south-east of  Saint Lô, Normandy; summer of 1944.

Gather around the piano

A group of fighters, led by a Marine with a wounded hand, charging from the shore around opened barbed-wire entanglement to battle firmly entrenched Japanese troops in pillboxes on Tarawa atoll, Gilbert Islands, north-east of Australia; 21 November, 1943. 
