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| Bridge built at night had been shelled and partially destroyed by the Germans who could see it above Pisa, Italy about one and a half miles away. |
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| Dummy bridge erected by American engineer camouflage unit, of canvas and burlap. 18 August 1944. |
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| American infantrymen using footbridges to cross a river while Engineers complete a Bailey bridge in France in March 1945. |
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| African American soldiers early in World War II. Note the Colt M1917 revolver carried by the soldier in the foreground. |
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| Pfc. Edward E. Gladsford (left) of Chicago, Illinois, and Pfc. Oscar L. Lombardi of Los Angeles, California, soldiers from the American 9th Infantry Division, eat canned "C" rations in a doorway in Germany on 27 February 1945. The rations were heated over a small fire. |
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| Burdened with photo equipment, cameramen ordinarily could not carry a rifle and were nearly defenseless at the front. The American 163rd Signal Photo Company’s Fred Bonnard, shown here at his “home” in the entrance to a wine cellar at Anzio, carried only a .45-caliber automatic pistol and a knife, which were typical weapons for cameramen. |
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