Gun crew of an M15 half-track from the 834th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion of the US Army, protecting the Yomitan airfield in Okinawa. The M15 is based on the M3 armored personnel carrier armed with two Browning M2 heavy machine guns and a 37-mm M1 automatic cannon; June 7, 1945.

Protecting the airfield

American soldiers make their way through the barbed wire in Normandy, France. The soldier in the foreground on the right is armed with an M1A1 flamethrower; June-July 1944.

Through the barbed wire

An American Army medic bandages the wound of a captured German SS soldier; 1944.