An American soldier, sitting on a horseback, has a friendly chat with a Red Army junior lieutenant (2nd Lt.), as the two sides meet near the town of Torgau, Germany, by the Elbe river; April, 1945.

Chat from a horseback

U.S. 37th Infantry Division soldiers unload ammunition from landing craft on Bougainville beachhead, Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific Ocean; November, 1943.

Unloading ammo

American soldiers unload on the island of Kiska, one of the Aleutian islands.
Following the recapture the island of Attu in May of 1943, Allied planners prepared to retake what they believed to the more heavily defended island of Kiska. Prior to the joint American-Canadian landings on August 15th, the Japanese abandoned the island, evacuating the entire garrison in secret. Despite landing on the empty island, casualties for the operation were high, with a number of friendly fire incidents, as well as accidents and triggering of mines left behind by the Japanese. Aside from the landing itself, 71 sailors died on the USS Abner Read when it struck a sea-mine off shore. 
