U.S. Army paratroopers climb into a C-47 transport plane en route to their jump into the Netherlands during September 1944's Operation Market Garden.

Destination Dutch drop one

Miserable autumn weather forced many in Patton’s Third Army to seek shelter - even if that shelter was  only a muddy foxhole under canvas. Somewhere in France; November 1944.

Keep out of rain and wind

Soldiers of the 32nd Infantry Division with the M1 Garand and M1903 Springfield rifles ready to disembark in Australia; 1942. 
   The 32nd was a National Guard unit from Michigan and Wisconsin and would initially fight in New Guinea and later in the Philippines. It spent more days in combat than any other unit.