LSTs form a graceful curve, as Army reinforcements - to strengthen the Marines - disembark and proceed across coral reef toward the beach on the island of Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, western Pacific Ocean; June/July 1944.

Reinforcements landing

Everybody wants to go to Paris (France), including these American GIs... Why not, that's where a different kind of action is!

Where do you guys want to go?

US Army Private Lloyd Culuck of A Company, 1st Battalion, 172nd Regiment eating a can of Ration B, using the lid as spoon while wearing 12-day-old dirty clothes, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, July 1943.
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