Viewed from an elevated vantage point, soldiers line up with mess kits and canteen cups at a field kitchen while a supply wagon waits beneath leafy summer trees nearby. Scenes such as this, capturing the routine logistics of feeding troops in the field, represent the unglamorous but essential daily rhythm of campaign life for the 101st Airborne Division during its 1944 operations in Normandy and Holland, when meals were often taken wherever and whenever the tactical situation allowed. Project: 218667