A First Sergeant of the U.S. Army uses a harness to carry his Division's mascot dog above the muddy ground somewhere on the western front; 1945.

Mascot of the Unit

Two U.S. soldiers escort a group of German prisoners to ships to take them back to England to POW camp; Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944.
 


POWs under escort

A local Italian resident, with upraised hands, greets the first GIs into Troina - a village approximately 20 miles south of the northern coast of Sicily - after a brutal battle in the vicinity, lasting nearly a week in early August 1943.