Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division standing on the ruins of a house after the Battle of Carentan, France, not far from Cherbourg; 15 June 1944. 

After the battle of Carentan

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

Fallen comrade

An LST is landing 32nd Infantry Division troops.
   It was an Allied amphibious landing at Saidor, a village on the north coast of Papua New Guinea on 2 January 1944.
   Papua New Guinea, is the eastern half of the island of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.