A machine gunner watching for snipers as a combat engineer crew bathes in the river below; Guadalcanal, South Pacific, 1943.



Snipers beware!

Major General Manton S. Eddy, Division Commander (seated in the jeep with his hand on the windshield) pauses to get information from US 9th Division infantrymen in La Cour Miette near Les Champs de Losque,Marigny, Normandy. The frontline for 'Operation Cobra' July 26, 1944
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Major General Manton S. Eddy

Judged by the semi-relaxed faces and suppressed smile, this could be a posed photo. American sergeant Maurice Parker, in his left hand points a "Walther P-38" pistol, in his right hand holds an M1A1 Thompson submachine gun at two harmless looking German prisoners; Italy, 1944. 
