Typical U.S. soldier.
Typical U.S. soldier. Here is a typical American soldier, one of the thousands who helped rout the Axis in North Africa and Italy. He is Sergeant Estel Abel and he is shown wearing the Silver Star which he was awarded for braving enemy gunfire to carry out a mission during the fighting at El Guettar Valley in Tunisia, which U.S. Army forces captured in 1943.




