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.

Newcomers to down under

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

US troops negotiating the narrow sunken lanes of the bocage country in Normandy; summer 1944.
Most fields only had one gated entrance and were surrounded by high hedgerows, which were ideal for German ambushes.