USS LST-603, USS LST-74 and USS LST-141 load soldiers of the US 3rd Infantry Division at Bagnoli harbor, 4 miles from Naples, Italy, 31 July, 1944, during an embarkation exercise prior to Operation Dragoon, the Invasion of Southern France.

Embarkation into LSTs

US soldiers pose with a captured Japanese anti-aircraft gun; Japanese island of Okinawa, East China sea; 1945.


Captured from Japanese

Command of US forces in Cricqueville en Bessin, Normandy, north-western France. From left to right: the commander of the 20th US Air Army, General Henry Arnold (June 25, 1886 - January 15, 1950), Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Western Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower, (October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969 ), Commander of the 19th US Corps, Major General Charles Corlett (07/31/1889 - 10/13/1971), Chief of Staff of the US Army, General George Marshall (31.12.1880 - 16.10.1959), Commander of the 1st US Army Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley (partially visible) (02/12/1893 - 04/08/1981), Commander of the US Navy Admiral Ernest King (23.11.1878 - 25.06.1956). 
