This is the 30 cal machine gun , 100 infantry Division, 399th reg. 2nd Bn , anti tank crew Pfc Serry Gouveia

100 Inf. Div. 399 reg ,30 cal machine gunGermany, 

The great Ernie Pyle. U.S. War Correspondent who gave us the true story of the U.S. G.I. He died from a sniper's bullet on Okinawa, shortly before the end of WWII.  “I love the infantry because they are the underdogs.  They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.” — Ernie Pyle,  “The God-Damned Infantry,” 1943 
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Ernie Pyle

G.I.'s of 78th Infantry Division in a -former German- trench near Raffelsbrand/Germany, autumn 1944.