Antiaircraft gunners from the American tank landing ship LST-66 pose near markers displaying downed Japanese aircraft. During two Japanese air attacks off Cape Gloucester, New Guinea, on December 25-27, 1944, LST-66 sustained minor damage from two close-in bomb explosions.
Rudolph Broker, coxswain of the American tank landing ship LST-66, inspects the gun mount armor plate, which bears marks from a Japanese bomb fragment. Broker himself was slightly wounded by the fragment. During two Japanese air attacks off Cape Gloucester, New Guinea, from December 25 to 27, 1944
French soldiers of the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division (3e division d'infanterie algérienne, 3e DIA) of Army B under General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny board a British light tank landing ship (LCT) in Taranto for the landing in Provence. 1944
Asian-American '27 Nov 44. 5/MM-44-30638. Fifth Army, Italy. 2nd Lt. Carmen C. Marra, 41 Highland Ave., Pittsfield, Mass. [Massachusetts], (right), and S/Sgt. Dock C. Lin, (Left) look over the weapons
Sometimes, the trophy became a prime weapon. This GI clutches a fragmentation grenade in one hand and a captured Walther P38 pistol in the other during the bitter street fighting in Brest, France in September 1944. Photo: NARA
The Luger was a war trophy prized above all others. An airman of the 9th Air Force shows off his Luger at a forward airfield in France in the autumn of 1944. Photo: NARA