American and Russian soldiers meet and examine a map on the hood of a jeep at the Elbe River linkup in Torgau, Germany on April 25, 1945. - Note the 69th Infantry Division patch on the U.S. soldier, and that he is carrying his service .45 M1911A1 "cocked and locked" in an issue shoulder holster. 


Finding Torgau on the map

An LST is landing 32nd Infantry Division troops.
   It was an Allied amphibious landing at Saidor, a village on the north coast of Papua New Guinea on 2 January 1944.
   Papua New Guinea, is the eastern half of the island of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

LST landing troops

Major Dick Winters , Captain Lewis Nixon & Lieutenant Harry Welsh Austria 1945.
Taken from fb/War History Online