US Army Sgt John P. Gallagher- South Pacific- WWII- Island of Biak 1945

 US Army WWII -Biak South Pacific

General Omar Bradley, commander of the U.S. First Army had asked his aide to keep photographers away from him while he was wearing a Band-Aid over a lanced boil but Robert Capa didn't take no for an answer. Normandy, June, 1944.

Bradley's boil

Landing boats pouring soldiers and their equipment onto the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu Island, Alaska. This is the southern landing force on May 11, 1943. The American and Canadian troops took control of Attu within two weeks, after fierce fighting with the Japanese occupying forces. Of the allied troops, 549 were killed and 1,148 wounded -- of the Japanese troops, only 29 men survived. U.S. burial teams counted 2,351 Japanese dead, and presumed hundreds more were unaccounted for.