Dead Japanese litter the landscape after their attack was repelled by soldiers of the U.S. 27th Infantry Division on the island of Saipan. In the background are a couple of American M3 Stewart tanks.

Attack repelled

U.S. Army troops rejoice upon reaching Italian soil after their beachhead landings at Anzio (Operation Shingle) during the Italian Campaign. The Battle of Anzio would commence on 22 January 1944 following the Allied amphibious landings at Anzio, engaging German forces in and around Anzio and Nettuno, with the intent of outflanking the Germans at the Winter Line and enabling an Allied attack on Rome. Anzio, Lazio, Italy. January 1944.  


Happy to have landed

Two American soldiers pause with a dead comrade; St. Lô, France, 1944.