Members of a machine-gun crew load a pack mule with machine gun and ammunition for the long trek up a mountain pass in the Venafro sector, just east of Monte Cassino; Venafro, Italy, 12 December 1943.

Best transportation for the location

Five Texans of the U.S. 96th Infantry Division, each credited with killing five or more Japanese soldiers on Okinawa; 30 June, 1945.

Don't mess with Texas

A U.S. soldier stumbles upon the dead body of a fallen American paratrooper.
Bastogne, Belgium. January 12, 1945.