US commissary troops manufacture ice cream with home-made ice cream machine, Bougainville.  Best regards, JR.

Ice cream !

Men of US Marines, Second Battalion, Seventh Regiment waited to move inland on Iwo Jima, soon after going ashore, 19 Feb 1945.

Iwo Jima landings

U.S. Marines of the first Marine Division stand by the corpses of two of their comrades, who were killed by Japanese soldiers on a beach on Peleliu island, Republic of Palau, in September of 1944. After the end of the invasion, 10,695 of the 11,000 Japanese soldiers stationed on the island had been killed, only some 200 captured. U.S. forces suffered some 9,800 casualties, including 1,794 killed. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal/Pool) #  