Machine gun crew of the 3rd Raider Battalion engaging the Japanese enemy from a typical Bougainville foxhole during the Piva Road-Block action, 9 November 1943.(rudeerude)

Bougainville foxhole

Advancing into a coconut grove,men of the 2d Battalion, 21st Marines move forward supported by tanks of the 3d Tank Battalion.Bougainville

21st Marines move forward

A U.S. Marine cradles a baby, the only survivor among hundreds of dead Japanese in a Siapan cave during the fighting in the Summer of 1944...