M3 Lee Medium Tank equipped with the longer 75mm M3 cannon with Company I, 3rd Bn, 13th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division in Tunisia - Feb/Mar 1943
7th Army M35 Prime Mover towing an M1 8” / 203mm gun with the 575th Field Artillery Battalion through Mommenheim, France on the way to the front - February 26, 1945
The M35 was a turretless M10 Tank Destroyer used as an artillery tractor
M3 Lee medium tanks with the short 75mm M2 cannon in Tunisia - Early 1943. Note the counterweights on the end of the 75mm barrels
"I" Company (the slanted "L" tactical marking), 3rd Battalion, 13th Armored Regiment, U.S. 1st Armored Division.
Dazed US Soldiers injured by a hand grenade dropped by a German prisoner (Centre, dead on the ground) they had been escorting along the banks of the Rur/Roer river near Jülich Germany - February 1945
Note the US Soldier on the ground on the left trying to get up…LIFE Magazine Photographer George Silk was injured during this incident
USS LCI(G)-441, alongside USS Nevada (BB-36) recovering the dead (S1/c J.R. Scott of Macon, GA. killed at his GQ station) and wounded crew members after being hit by enemy fire off the invasion beaches of Iwo Jima on 17 February 1945.
A Marine Corps Grumman TBF Avenger gets an overhaul in its revetment on Bougainville by its mechanics. In the foreground is a 2,000 pound bomb waiting to be loaded. 16 February 1944
In July of 1943, Sgt. Norwood Dorman, tired & weary from his march to Brolo, Sicily, imitates the pose of an Italian statue dedicated to Italian World War I soldiers.
Troops en route to Oran, Algeria, 15 June 1943 before the invasion of Sicily studying guidebooks for North Africa and otherwise passing the time in their bunks on board a U. S. Navy transport.
The ship may be USS James O'Hara (APA-90). Note that these men are armed with bolt-action Springfield rifles. They are from the 45th Infantry Division.
A convoy of lorries under enemy artillery and mortar fire on the road between Son and Eindhoven, 20 September 1944. In the foreground American paratroopers shelter in a ditch. Operation Market Garden
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