Pfc. Jerry Casillo, of Buffalo, N.Y., cleans his rifle during a rare moment of rest while his fellow soldiers catch some sleep on a beachhead at Normandy, France, some time after D-Day, but during the continuing Allied invasion. 


Resting on the beach

Members of the 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry, cross the Moselle river in an assault boat at the commune of Dornot, France; 1944.

Crossing the Moselle

Soldiers of the 41st Infantry Division, after emerging from the jungle, overcoming Japanese resistance, advance on an open field on the South Pacific island of Biak, off the New Guinea coast; May-August 1944.
