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Infantry, Fort Benning, Ga Date taken: February 02, 1950 Photographer: Ralph Morse

US Marines climbing over coconut log seawall to attack Japanese positions during the battle to take the Tarawa Atoll Location: Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert...

Soldiers taking rifle practice combat training. Location: Ft Benning, GA, US Date taken: 1943 Photographer: Myron Davis

Us Army Uniforms US Army enlisted man in field uniform w. rifle slung over his shoulder. Location: US Date taken: 1941 Photographer: Dmitri...

Jungle Warfare Training Center Port Sherman, Panama Date taken: 1962 Photographer: Carl Mydans larger image LIFE: Jungle Warfare...

Draftees attending basic training camp. Location: Fort Carson, CO, US Date taken: May 1955 Photographer: Michael Rougier Larger image ...

Paratroopers get final instructions before leaving for Normandy. RG-208-MO-10H, National Archives. Looks like they are jumping with rifles ready....

American paratroopers, among the first to make successful landings on the continent, hold a Nazi flag captured in village assault. Invasion of...

A group of paratroopers in a French village at St. Marcouf, Utah Beach, France. From here they will move on into the continent, accomplishing their...

(SC 344569) American troops planting demolition charge to destroy a small bridge somewhere in Korea. 25 Jul 1950. Note Muzzle Cover

Sgt. Tommy Lyons just back from a week in the front lines near the town of Murrigen during the Battle of the Bulge. Location: Belgium Date taken:...

SC381830) Men of the 2nd Platoon, B Co 10th Engineer Battalion check a tank for booby-traps and the area for mines. 8 Oct 1951. Thanks to Snafu...

This Airborne Yank has solved his personal transportation problem over the areas flooded by retreating Germans near the French coast. 11 June 1944....

Boot marine on rifle range getting William S. Trope's effective cure for not being able to squint his left eye, by making cap awry. Location: Parris...

Mark asked me to fill in Two for one tonight While hundreds of others move towards the beach in landing craft, American assault troops, with full...

From newly-captured town, members of the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, cross the Weser River in assault boats to take Furstenberg....

American soldiers of 289th Infantry Regiment marching along snow-covered road on their way to cut off St. Vith-Houffalize road in Belgium, during...