Mine-topped posts planted on Utah Beach for D-Day. These were intended to be triggered by incoming ships and landing craft.

Attack at low tide ✔️

If you know your stuff, you’ll be able to place this photograph. 😎

The personal effects of Easy Company’s CO on D-Day, Lt. Thomas Meehan, that were recovered in Normandy. 🪂

Meehan and the men in his plane were all killed after their plane was hit by German anti-aircraft fire. 🪦

Wearing a WWI-style helmet, an American soldier crouches in his foxhole on Bataan in April 1942. 🪖

Making use of every available weapon, he has an improvised Molotov cocktail at the ready to hurl towards the advancing Japanese Army. 🍾

In 1945, a Marine crouches low to the beach, holding his flame-thrower during amphibious training at Chigasaki. 🪖

80 years ago today, two American soldiers examine an Italian Semovente da 75/34 used by the Germans in Castelforte, Italy. 🪖

During the Battle of Okinawa, American soldiers advance on the Japanese in the early months of the campaign. 🪖

Coast Guardsman Cesar Romero, aka “The Joker”, proudly exhibits his wartime souvenirs to his mother. 🇺🇸

The Japanese cap and gun came from the Saipan and Tinian invasions in the Marianas.⚓️

If the scene with Mrs. Ryan in Saving Private Ryan doesn’t move you on Mother’s Day, you’re dead on the inside.

In a May 1943 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, a mother welcomes her son home on furlough in 1943. 🇺🇸

Abe’s✉️to Mrs. Bixby hits harder on Mother’s Day
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of ur bereavement, & leave u only the cherished memory of the loved & lost, & the solemn pride that must be urs to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom🇺🇸

Anna Matthees of Goodhue, Minnesota was the mother of 7 sons that served in WW2 and returned home.

3 Army, 2 Navy, and 2 Army Air Force. Happy Mother’s Day 🇺🇸

“I wish that every soldier would write a letter home on Mother’s Day. This is a little thing, but these letters will carry back our courage & our affection to the patriotic women whose love & prayers inspire us & cheer us on to victory.”

-Gen. John Pershing 🪖

After the conclusion of World War I, American legend Alvin York is greeted by his mother upon his return to Pall Mall, Tennessee. 🇺🇸

Happy Mother’s Day!

A stern view of the USS Missouri 😎

At a cost of only 5 cents and with over 20 heroes from a tank destroyer team in France on the cover, you're paying well under a penny per hero to view this issue of Yank Magazine. 😎

The great Joe DiMaggio played for three teams in his life 😎

1. San Francisco Seals 🦭
(1932-1935)

2. New York Yankees ⚾️
(1936-1942, 1946-1951)

3. US Army 🪖
(1943-1945)

In April of 1945, Navy personnel on the USS Missouri shoot down multiple Kamikaze attempts on their ship, staving off all but the one pictured here. ⚓️

During WWII, T/Sgt. James Holmes, an engineer & waist gunner on a B-24 Liberator with the 8th Air Force in England. ✈️