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.


Sunny South Pacific island

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

On the demarcation line between the American and Soviet zones of the occupation of Germany. May 25, 1945.