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

First aid to a wounded foe

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

An American GI rescues an injured Filipino girl In February 1945. The Japanese forces in Manila defied their orders from General Yamashita to withdraw and in all just a little over 10,000 Japanese Marines and Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) stragglers remained in the city. These soldiers then went on a killing spree that spared no one and became known as the Manila Massacre.