Young Soldier
Injured while storming Omaha Beach on D-Day, these US army soldiers sat to recover after the landings in Normandy, France. Taken on June 6, 1944, none of the men in this photograph have ever been identified. It's unknown whether they lived to tell their stories, or perished in the battles. Not many people left the fighting unscathed, several retained injuries for years.
Writing on Bombs
Obviously, there was a lot of contempt for the enemy. Here, a group of Soviet and American soldiers sit side by side with the bombs the wrote on, addressed to the Axis Powers. One soldier poses with a bomb that reads: "To the Axis, from U.S.S.R and U.S.A." Soviets and Americans were bounded by their distrust and hate for Germany during this unsettling time.
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