U.S. soldiers fire mortar shells over a ridge onto a Japanese position in Attu, Aleutian Islands, Alaska on 4 June 1943.

Mortar crew bombarding the enemy 

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.

An American GI rescues a girl

An American soldier receives a kiss from a Belgian woman shortly after U.S. troops enter - and liberate - Liege, Belgium; Sept. 17, 1944