In June of 1944, soldiers of the 27th Infantry Division move inland to meet the enemy, after landing on Saipan. 🪖

Pfc. Floyd Rogers of the 2nd Infantry Division with his BAR in France during the Normandy Campaign. 🪖

The great Tom Selleck in his California National Guard days.

2nd Lt. Karl Timmerman of the 9th Armored Division, the 1st officer of an invading army to set foot across the Rhine into German territory since the days of Napoleon. 🪖

-Distinguished Service Cross🇺🇸
- Bronze Star 🎖️
- Purple Heart 💜

Never forget who who Bulldozed the road to Victory during World War II. ⚓️🐝

“There are two kinds of soldiers on this beach—those who are dead and those who are going to die! So let’s get the hell off this damned beach!”

- Colonel George Taylor 🪖

In August of 1944, Pvt. Don Doornkaat of the 6th Armored Division moves in on a German aircraft listening device outside near Brest, France. 🪖

Dog Green on Omaha Beach 🪖

If you can place this photograph, you’re my kind of people. 😎

In July of 1944, Marines take cover behind an M4 Sherman tank while clearing Japanese forces in northern Saipan. 🪖

Pfc. Robert Leigh, a rifleman with the 83rd Infantry Division, and his collection of enemy weapons taken from the Germans during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest. 🪖

During the Battle of the Bulge, a tank crew from the 761st Tank Battalion sits in their M24 Chaffee tank in a snowy field around Bastogne, waiting to engage German forces. 🪖

In 1944, Private Richard LaRock of the 30th Infantry Division plays the piano to distract his platoon from the horrors of war they have witnessed as they pursue the enemy through Germany. 🪖

He was killed in action two days later during the fighting near Aachen, Germany. 🪦

In April of 1945, Captain James Barron of the 96th Infantry Division is given plasma after being wounded by a Japanese sniper on Okinawa. 🪖

In 1945, a Marine with the 1st Marine Division examines an Okinawan idol found in the courtyard of Shuri Castle during the Battle of Okinawa. 🪖

In July of 1944, the USS Alaska off the Philadelphia Navy Yard…the last frontier really is a sight to behold ⚓️

In September of 1944, Marines enjoy some captured Japanese goods in the Palau Islands. 🪖

General George S. Patton sits on a fence & smokes a pipe while observing 1941 maneuvers in Louisiana. 🪖

In late 1944, American soldiers accompany young Dutch children on a morning walk through the grounds of Hoensbroek Castle in Limburg, Netherlands. 🪖

Colourised Piece of Jake on the colorization 🎨

In June of 1944, American troops loaded down with their weapons, personal kits & Bangalore torpedoes make their way to the embarkation point on the south coast of England in preparation for the invasion of Europe. 🪖