American soldiers are waiting to board a troop transport ship on the island of New Caledonia, east of Papua New Guinea, to take them to the Solomon Islands to augment the Marines there.

Bound for the Solomon Islands

Men of the 1st Battalion, 183rd Infantry Regiment, embarking aboard USS LCI(L)-74 at the village of Aitape, the island of New Guinea in the South Pacific; 15 to 18, May 1944.


Boarding Landing Craft

A Victory Parade was held in Tunis, capital of Tunisia, north Africa, on May 20, 1943, in which units of the British First and Eighth Armies and representative detachments of the American (U.S. II. Corps) and French forces marched past, with bands playing and generals Eisenhower, Alexander and Giraud taking the salute. 
