American soldiers pinned down on beach on Leyte Island, Philippines, by Japanese mortar and machine gun fire; 20 October, 1944.

Rough going on the beach

A Tommy-gun toting GI with a war dog named Bolo, somewhere on a Pacific island, on guard duty...

The dog alerts approaching enemy

Members of a U.S. Army engineer unit stand on “dragon’s teeth” antitank obstacles in a portion of the West Wall during the Saar Offensive; November 1944.

Getting a better view ahead

American soldiers inspect a metal German pillbox pulled out of the ground, installed on the Gustav line between the Tyrrhenian sea (on the west) to the Adriatic sea (on the east) with the focal point being Cassino; Italy; February 15, 1944.

Fortification from which to fire

Soldiers of the 244th Infantry Regiment, of the US 70th Infantry Division receive letters in the French commune of Wingen-sur-Moder, after recapturing it from German troops; January 7, 1945.

Good to hear  from home

An American soldier searches a prisoner of war from the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"; Normandy, France, August 1944.

An officer POW

Baseball-great Joe DiMaggio (left) stands at attention with his fellow US Army recruits after receiving his uniform on Feb. 18, 1943.

You're in the Army, now...

Tanks and GIs from the US 2nd Armored Division advance near Lemgo, 70 kms south-west of Hanover, Germany, while escorting a captured POW; April 1945.

Closing in on the town of Lemgo

American Soldier who was awarded the most Medals of WW2

Audey Murphy

Soldiers

Medical personnel are preparing a casualty for evacuation, to be transported by a 1/4-ton truck (aka jeep) to an off-shore hospital ship destined for England;  Summer of 1944, somewhere in Normandy, France.

One of the many wounded

101st Airborne troops posing with a captured Nazi flag two days after landing at Normandy, June 8, 1944.

Souvenir to take back home

 A US Army patrol in the Aitape area move up along a beach across the mouth of a river to locate and eliminate trapped Japanese forces in the area; 7 August 1944.

New Guinea Campaign

Paratroopers from the US 101st Airborne Division move through the town of Carentan, Normandy, France immediately after the D-Day invasion; June 1944.

War damage noticeable

Soldiers of the US 1st Army are sitting on a German self-propelled assault gun (Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G), knocked out as a result of the bombing by aircraft of the 9th US Air Force, near the German village of Mödrath, 10 miles west of Cologne. 
In the background on the left is the same German self-propelled fighting vehicle; 1945.

Fun on top of a fearsome monster

American troops pause on a snowy road near St. Vith, Belgium; January, 1945.

In the middle of the Bulge

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment of the 29th US Infantry Division on a destroyed street in the liberated French town of Isigny-sur-Mer; June 9, 1944.

Battle-scarred town

A captured, wounded young SS soldier lies on the hood of an American jeep in the Ardennes, south-eastern Belgium, waiting to be transported to a first aid station; January 6, 1945.

Alive, but out of the war

Soldiers of the 165 Infantry Regiment (New York National Guard, "Fighting 69th") wade ashore through jagged coral boulders along the beach of Butaritari Island, Makin Atoll, Gilbert Islands; November 20, 1944. 

Commander: "Makin Taken"

German anti tank gun emplacement in the port of Cherbourg, Manche, France. The Battle of Cherbourg was fought as part of the Normandy Campaign in June 1944. The battle was an Allied victory, but the Germans destroyed the port before the Allies could take control of the city.

Fortification to protect the port

President Truman awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor to Corporal Desmond Doss in 1945. 
   During the Battle of Okinawa, Doss saved the lives of 75 wounded infantrymen atop Hacksaw Ridge despite being wounded four times himself.

Recognition of heroic deed

Soldiers of Company I stand guard over exhausted and cold German POW veterans of the Hurtgen Forest campaign. Captured at Junkersdorf, Germany (10-15 miles east of Aachen) on December 12, 1945, they were assembled and marched out of the front lines that morning by the equally exhausted survivors of Company I, 39th Infantry Regiment, US 9th Infantry Division.

Guarding German POWs

A US Army Captain inspects a Willis jeep, equipped with a stretcher to transport the wounded; Australia, October 1942.

Jeep modified to carry the wounded

American troops come ashore on the south bank of the Pasig River during the assault on the Walled City in Manila, the Philippines; February 23, 1945. 

Battle of Manila.

An American soldier with a Soviet-made Maxim machine gun captured in a German trench in the commune of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines area, Alsace, France; November 26, 1944. 

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