Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 132nd Infantry Regiment of the  US Army, landed on the island of Cebu, central Philippines. In the background are LVT-4 (Landing Vehicle Tracked) amphibious armored personnel carriers; March 26-April 8, 1945. 

On the beaches of the Philippines

Soldiers of Gen. George Patton's U.S. Third Army celebrate the capture of the commune of St. Avold, north-eastern France with a bottle of wine on Dec. 6 1944. 

Drink for the occasion

Operation Market Garden 1944, U.S. paratroopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 82nd Airborne Division, march on the Oranjesingel road in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, toward the Waal river; September 1944. 