This photo was taken on board a Coast Guard ship bound for the United States. On the left is a German Luftwaffe soldier, captured in Normandy; he is a former American, who moved to Germany before the war.  He previously worked in a butcher shop in Brooklyn, New York. - Beside him, is a Military Police officer. 

POW 

German prisoners of war carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher under the supervision of US soldiers in the foothills of the Aurunci mountains, in the vicinity of the Italian town of Itri; 1944.
 


Wounded comrade

The invasion of Leyte, October - December 1944; American infantry wade ashore on Leyte, the Philippines.