American soldiers sharing cigarettes to residents of the port city of Arzew, Algeria, during the Allied invasion of North Africa, code named Operation Torch; November 1942. 

Have a smoke on us

Troops of the 30th Infantry Division crossing the Weser river near the town of Hamelin (20 miles south-west of the city of Hanover) during mopping up operations. German officers and soldiers wait to surrender to them; Germany, April 7, 1945.

Weser river crossing

Soldiers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, US 82nd Airborne Division, at the Aid Station No. 2 with wounded, waiting on stretchers to be attended; In the first liberated town of Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France, June 1944. 