13031 "Shore Leave" U.S.N. Sailor on Liberty With Date, 1942-45 K&C Operation Marker Garden While serving as Company Gunnery

While serving as Company Gunnery Sergeant

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel made use of several different vehicles to get around the battlefield – both German and captured British

defend a fallen Legionary

A crouching infantryman prepares to fire the Type 89 ‘Knee Mortar’

part of his family’s coat-of-arms

13031 "Shore Leave" U.S.N. Sailor on Liberty With Date, 1942-45 K&C Operation Marker Garden While serving as Company GunneryThe term Shore Leave is defined as when sailors got permission to go ashore to take leave of their ship and spend time on dry land. It is also known as liberty because of the freedom it presented. Join the Navy and see the World as the recruiting posters said, and far away ports offered exotic sight seeing. Those closer to home were allowed the opportunity to see family and loved ones. Above all, Shore Leave meant a respite from day to day shipboard