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Infantry
"Dig a hole in your backyard while it is raining. Sit in the hole while the water climbs up around your ankles. Pour cold mud down your shirt collar. Sit there for forty-eight hours, and so there is no danger of your dozing off, imagine that a guy is sneaking around waiting for a chance to club you on the head or set your house on fire. Get out of the hole, fill a suitcase full of rocks, pick it up, put a shotgun in your other hand, and walk on the muddiest road you can find. Fall flat on your face every few minutes, as you imagine big meteors streaking down to sock you. If you repeat this performance every three days for several months you may begin to understand why an infantryman gets out of breath. But you still won't understand how he feels when things get tough." -Bill Mauldin
"Dig a hole in your backyard while it is raining. Sit in the hole while the water climbs up around your ankles. Pour cold mud down your shirt collar. Sit there for forty-eight hours, and so there is no danger of your dozing off, imagine that a guy is sneaking around waiting for a chance to club you on the head or set your house on fire. Get out of the hole, fill a suitcase full of rocks, pick it up, put a shotgun in your other hand, and walk on the muddiest road you can find. Fall flat on your face every few minutes, as you imagine big meteors streaking down to sock you. If you repeat this performance every three days for several months you may begin to understand why an infantryman gets out of breath. But you still won't understand how he feels when things get tough." -Bill Mauldin
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Weary Japanese-American soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion -- Daniel Inouye's unit -- take a rest in Leghorn, Italy. July 19, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-192071)
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Near Velletri, Italy, Japanese-Americans of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 34th Division advance along a dusty road. May 28, 1944
Source: National Archives (111-SC-186637)
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Bundled Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT gather in front of a tent pitched in a snowy, wooded area in France. November 13, 1944
Source: National Archives (111-SC-341438)
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Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT, 2nd Battalion. November 11, 1944
Source: National Archives (111-SC-196516)
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Two Japanese-American color guard and color bearers of the 442nd RCT stand at attention while their citation is read for saving the lost battalion in France. November 12, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-196716)
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Members of the 442nd RCT, 100th Infantry Battalion on the chow line. Charmois area, France, October 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-340904)
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Japanese-American soldiers of Battery A, 522nd Field Artillery, 442nd RCT prepare shells. France, November 9, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-340947)
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Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT, 2nd Battalion on a muddy road in the Chambois Sector of France. October 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-253983)
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Soldier of the 141st Infantry Regiment -- the lost battalion -- rests after being rescued by the 442nd RCT in France. October 31, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-196052)
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Japanese-American infantrymen of the 442nd RCT run for cover from a German artillery shelling. Italy, April 4, 1945.
Source: National Archives (WC-1031)
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Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT advance up a steep hillside in France. November 4, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-195666)
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Front line infantrymen of the lost battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment relax around a camp fire after being rescued by 442nd RCT in France. October 31, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-196053)
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Japanese-American soldiers of Co. E, 442nd RCT train at Camp Shelby, MS. May 13, 1943. Daniel Inouye is in the right column, second from the front.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-176302)
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Line of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment-- Eugene Sledge's unit -- march, gear on their backs, through the hills at Peleliu. Oct. 1944.
Source: National Archives (127-N-97412)
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A cautious soldier, Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-131973)
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A soldier tries to keep warm as the weather turns in France. November 3, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-195939-S)
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Infantryman of the 121st Infantry Regiment during a lull in the fighting near Hürtgen, Germany. December 5, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-196969)
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A Marine in combat on Peleliu. September 1944.
Source: National Archives
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A private examines the damage to the altar of a Catholic Church in Acerno, Italy as light pours through the bomb-shattered roof. September 23, 1943.
Source: National Archives (WC-1033)
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A soldier from Jersey City, New Jersey offers candy to two French girls. July 4, 1944.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 7073 no neg#)
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