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U.S. soldiers of Japanese descent in Italy. Soldiers of the U.S. Army infantry battalion composed for Americans of Japanese origin march across a bridge on their way to the front lines in Italy (September 1943). The battalion which was recruited in Hawaii, took part in a four-day battle at Benevento, and some of its members rescued a party of American parachutists who had been isolated behind the German ...

German soldiers ford river. German soldiers fording a river in Poland after a bridge had been destroyed by the retreating Poles.

Italian soldiers tend pack animals. Pack mules much hay as Italian soldiers rub down the weary animals which carried supplies to forward positions on the Allied Fifth Army front in Western Italy.

Swiss soldiers are busy. A long line of Swiss soldiers climbing an Alpine slope to the spot where some of their comrades are digging an emplacement in the snow. The big army which Switzerland has in readliness to protect her neutrality should it be threatened keeps at the pack of officieny by means of constant exercises.

Bravest soldier in Italian Army. Abrahim Adare, bravest Italian soldier, with his regimental banner on the northern front.

Typical U.S. soldier. Here is a typical American soldier, one of the thousands who helped rout the Axis in North Africa and Italy. He is Sergeant Estel Abel and he is shown wearing the Silver Star which he was awarded for braving enemy gunfire to carry out a mission during the fighting at El Guettar Valley in Tunisia, which U.S. Army forces captured in 1943.

A German soldier surrenders. With hands held high above his head, a German soldier gives himself up to an American paratrooper of the Allied Expeditionary Force which made the initial landings in Northern France June 6, 1944.

A French soldier's grave. The grave of a French machine-gunner; his last resting place is decorated with his steel-helmet, gun and the tripod of his machine-gun.

Parachute soldiers after their victory. Hermann Goering viewing a division of parachute soldiers, everyone of which is the proud bearer of the Iron Cross and several of the Iron Cross I Class.

Presentations to French soldiers. The British Commander-in-Chief, General Lord Gort, decorating a French Sergeant-Major for his bravery with a British patrol.

Notice to the allied soldiers. The people of the Netherlands have been instructed by their government to accept only their own money in exchange for goods and services. You can help by paying only in Netherlands money which you can obtain from your paymas

Britse jongen in militair uniform van de Royal Artillery. De jongen is N.F. Howell. Onderschrift: "Boy soldier 1937".