A convoy of jeeps pause on a road built by the U.S. Seabees on the island of Bougainville,  Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific ocean;  
A U.S. Marine pays tribute to one of the Seabees in front of the sign with a handshake.

A Marine thanks a Seabee

U.S. Marines take Japanese soldiers hiding in a cave POW, after coaxed them to surrender; Island of Tinian, Northern Marianas, 5-6 miles south of the island of Saipan; 1944.

Better to surrender

U.S. Marine M4A2 Sherman tanks of the 3rd Battalion advance inland from the beach on Iwo Jima; 1945.