Indian Infantry

An Indian infantry section of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment, 4th Indian Infantry Brigade, 26th Indian Infantry Division about to go on patrol on the Arakan front, Burma. May, 1944.  Colorization by Doug Banks.

Home Guard

A Kodachrome color photograph of Howard Crane wearing a Home Guard uniform and carrying a Tommy gun, taken by JCA Redhead (1886-1954) during World War Two. Crane is photographed wearing the uniform of a corporal in the Home Guard. Established in 1940 to protect Britain from invasion, they were 1.8 million strong by March 1943. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images).

War Mule

An American soldier attends to a mule while the animals were being loaded onto LST boats in preparation for the invasion of Italy, 1944.

Field Marshals

Marshal Erwin Rommel & Marshal of Italy, Ettore Bastico.

Gigant

A Marder II being loaded onto a Messerschmitt Gigant.

Keep That Lumber Coming

An American poster, from the home front.

A Toast

An American version of a sidewalk cafe, in fallen La Haye du Puits, France on July 15, 1944, as Robert McCurty, left, from Newark, New Jersey, Sgt. Harold Smith, of Brush Creek, Tennessee, and Sgt. Richard Bennett, from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, raise their glasses in a toast.

Pagoda Hill

British soldiers look down from Pagoda Hill on the battle raging below for possession of Fort Dufferin, Burma, 1945. 

Scouts

Kübelwagen scout car in southern Russia, 1941-1943.

On the Normandy Coast

Canadian soldiers on a DUKW craft on the Normandy coast,  June, 1944.

Medics of the 100th Infantry Battalion

Medics of the 100th Infantry Battalion, composed of Japanese-Americans, use a jeep as an ambulance vehicle during fighting in Italy.

Assault Column

German Sturmgeschütz (assault gun) column in Russia.  Colorization by Lex.

Mass

Sixth German army soldiers celebrating mass, summer 1942.

Mortar Crew

A mortar crew fires at a Japanese position on Bouganville Island. April. 1944.