Over Japanese-built foot bridge walk Americans on patrol. It connects Entrance Creek Island with Buna Mission (Buna Government Station). One end of it was blown up by the Japanese; Americans repaired it. December. 1942.

Papua New Guinea

Packed in a Navy LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) the US Third Army infantrymen cross the Rhine River near Boppard, Germany on March 25, 1945.
   The Navy would ferry more than 26 000 troops to the east bank of the river, greatly facilitating the Western Allies' drive to the heart of Nazi Germany.

Crossing the Rhine river

A U.S. soldier trudges along a muddy road to Metz, eastern France. Some of the most difficult fighting on the Western Front took place in and around Fort Driant; Autumn 1944.