Pfc. Hugo J. Wagner (left), Ferdernan, Indiana, and Pfc. Albert W. Weaver, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., in a pillow which had been occupied by Japs a few hours earlier.

Pfc. Hugo J. Wagner (left), Ferdernan, Indiana, and Pfc. Albert W. Weaver, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., in a pillbox which had been occupied by Japs a few hours earlier.

SC 192129-S - Left- Pfc. Hugo J. Wagner, Ferdinand, Indiana, and Pfc. Albert W. Weaver, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., in "pill box" occupied by Japs only a few hours earlier

Two tired US infantrymen undisturbed by the noises of war at nearby Cisterna, find peace and sleep in an open dugout after their first night of fighting in the new beachhead offensive. 25 May, 1944.

U.S. Marines help a Japanese soldier from a dugout on Tinian after they convinced him that life as a prisoner was more desirable than death for the Emperor

The U.S. Marines salute the U.S. Coast Guard after the fury of battle had subsided and the Japs on Guam had been defeated.

SC 192009 - Pvt. Peter M.N. Patti, 765 E. 225th St., Bronx, N.Y., right, an infantry medic, gives a light to a German prisoner on the front lines of the battle for Marigny, France. 29 July

"Negro assault troops await orders D-day to attack enemy shortly after they had come ashore at Saipan in the Marianas."

SC 192028 - Pvt. Gerard H. Murtha, 87 Winter St., New Britain, Conn.; Pfc. Jack A. Linsmayer, 1206 Carlisle Ave., Dayton, Ohio; Pfc. Belsey Connelley, Salyersville, Ky., and Pvt. Allen D. Schein, 1003 W. 71st St., Chicago, Ill