American soldiers taking cover from German machine gun fire during the battle for Cisterna (30 Jan.-2 Fe. 1944), near Anzio, Italy; 1944.

Taking cover

U.S. Army 83rd Infantry, France 1944

En route to England, the men of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry found and rescued this pup, Smokey, in Iceland. The troops brought him to England, and he’s seen here with one of the 503rd’s members as he chats with Lt. John Timothy, the British liaison officer to the 2/503. The 503rd was the first American ground unit to reach England after Pearl Harbor.