Category:United States in World War II

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This category has the following 42 subcategories, out of 42 total.

Media in category "United States in World War II"

The following 200 files are in this category, out of 4,105 total.

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  "Back to the hills" was the order, and "Nanny" the goat and her two kids had to bow before the needs of war. Saipan. January, 1945. (52305731742).jpg 5,446 × 4,104; 2.33 MB
  
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  "Butch", a Doberman Pinscher Marine War Dog stands guard as his partner, Pvt. Rez Hester, of Liberty, N.C., snatches a few winks in a sandy foxhole on Iwo Jima. (49482847102).jpg 5,733 × 4,629; 2.35 MB
  
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  "C" Co, 1st Bn, 7th Inf. Regt., 3rd Div., resting for a few minutes in the town of Faucogney. 20 September, 1944. (49355505616).jpg 3,600 × 4,857; 3.19 MB
  
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  "Coed" was loved and hated-----Depending upon the attentions which the General Sherman Tank, "Coed" gave to warriors on Iwo Jima, she was loved, by the Marines, and hated, by the enemy. (49483820297).jpg 5,766 × 4,251; 1.85 MB
  
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  "D" Co. of the 85th Inf. Regt., 10th Mtn. Div., forms in unusual pattern as it winds its way up the face of Mt. Belvedere carrying heavy mortars and ammunition to throw against the stubbornly resisting enemy... (52306582936).jpg 5,140 × 3,915; 2.08 MB
  
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  "H" Hour Marines hit the beach and the deck (fall flat) under fire of Jap guns on Saipan. (52307422416).jpg 5,599 × 4,443; 1.88 MB
  
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  "I'M GOING TO SEE THAT YOU GROW UP IN A BETTER WORLD, YOUNG FELLOW" - NARA - 535606.jpg 3,000 × 2,501; 2.11 MB
  
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  "Insignia for military police are being turned out in an eastern quartermaster corps depot where this young worker has o - NARA - 535807.jpg 3,000 × 2,409; 1.44 MB
  
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  "It's hard going when you have to climb the ridges after the Japs." (49479647516).jpg 6,598 × 5,289; 7.35 MB
  
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  "Lt. Andrew D. Marshall, pilot in a Negro fighter group of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force had his plane shot up by f - NARA - 535556.jpg 3,000 × 2,386; 1.24 MB
  
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  "Members of a `CHECKERBOARD' crew that brought a Liberty Ship from the U.S. to England, fondle their mascot `BOOKER.' (L - NARA - 531167.jpg 3,000 × 2,432; 1.38 MB
  
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  "Officer returns salute as he passes the cadets lined up during review.", ca. 1941 - ca. 1945 - NARA - 535831.jpg 3,000 × 2,417; 1.04 MB
  
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  "Pete," the mascot, seems to scent the stern business of bullets and bombs ahead as he prepares to board a U.S. Coast Guard-manned transport bound for action in the South Pacific (51241062575).jpg 4,770 × 5,608; 5.12 MB
  
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  "Sgt. Franklin Williams, home on leave from army duty, with his best girl Ellen Hardin, splitting a soda. They met at Do - NARA - 535838.jpg 3,000 × 2,241; 1.05 MB
  
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  "Surrounded by a veteran crew of Marines who have spent 15 months in the Southwest and Central Pacific, this gun, named - NARA - 532556.jpg 3,000 × 2,293; 1.05 MB
  
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  "War Correspondent Ted Stanford of The Pittsburgh Courier, a weekly, interviews 1st Sgt. Morris O. Harris...a tankman o - NARA - 535535.jpg 2,433 × 3,000; 1.48 MB
  
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  *Troops of the 162nd (163rd?) Infantry Regiment coming ashore at Aitape, 1944. (49624084016).jpg 3,856 × 3,168; 1.38 MB
  
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  1000 yards back of the frontlines, Marines of the 18th Assault Engineers commandeer native ox and cart for transportation. (52307997933).jpg 5,506 × 4,366; 3.1 MB
  
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  10th Mountain Division engineers set strings of TNT charges to detonate German mines, February 21, 1945 (49467881461).jpg 6,357 × 7,999; 3.68 MB
  
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  1139th Engineer Combat Group; Route Timetable, July 1 1944 – May 10 1945.pdf 1,279 × 1,445, 2 pages; 1.22 MB
  
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  127-N-5283 - Private First Class Homer J. Finley, Jr., USMC, and "Jan" stand regular sentry duty as must all Marine War Dogs and their trainer. March, 1943. (50156202327).jpg 4,933 × 5,371; 3.86 MB
  
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  127-N-5284A - Private First Class Homer J. Finley, Jr., USMC, is shown with canine Leatherneck buddy "Jan," spotting a make-believe sniper in a tree during the day's rugged training period. (50155980051).jpg 4,933 × 5,371; 3.51 MB
  
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  127-N-58381 - Guadalcanal. Jap killers all are these seven Marine fighter pilots who blazing guns have downed total of 45 Jap planes in less than three weeks of aerial fighting in the Solomons. (50155913836).jpg 2,773 × 2,191; 1.05 MB
  
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  127-N-64675 - Safety from enemy aerial attacks is required on this frontline Allied base in the Southwest Pacific, so even the hospital is constructed underground. (50155963191).jpg 2,772 × 2,130; 1.11 MB
  
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  127-N-65905 - Shown here with his two Marine Trainers is Thor, five year old German Shepherd messenger dog who was donated for war service to the Marine Corps by James Beplat (Flushing, New York). (50004634503).jpg 5,538 × 4,047; 3.62 MB
  
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  127-N-71319 - Bougainville. Pfc. H.J. Finley and war dog Pfc. Jack attached to the 2nd Marine Raider Regiment. (50004923383).jpg 3,615 × 2,865; 1.62 MB
  
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  127-N-76117 - Marine fighter pilots arrive at their newest base, the recently completed air strip on Green Island (50072319443).jpg 6,064 × 4,712; 3.87 MB
  
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  127-N-77814 - A MARINE TORPEDO BOMBER gets an overhaul in its revetment on Bougainville by its mechanics. In foreground is a 2,000 pounder waiting to be put in place. (50156130927).jpg 4,572 × 6,047; 4.38 MB
  
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  127-N-77840 - WHEN ENEMY PLANES ARE REPORTED IN THE AREA Marine fighter pilots "scramble" to their Corsair fighter planes in this fashion (50156122277).jpg 5,860 × 4,554; 3.11 MB
  
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  127-N-77863 - IN A READY ROOM ON BOUGAINVILLE, Marine fighter pilots gather around their flight leader to get some last minute pointers before they take off on a bomber escort mission against Rabaul. (50155907036).jpg 5,876 × 4,539; 3.66 MB
  
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  1940s Plymouth P10 (Deluxe) Army Sedan front 3.16.18.jpg 4,552 × 2,303; 1.34 MB
  
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  1st Division Marines rest behind the cover of an LVT at Peleliu, while others take shots at the enemy from on top. (49490369877).jpg 5,733 × 4,497; 1.83 MB
  
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  1st Lieutenant. Alvin Anderson, one of the many repatriated Prisoners of War to return home aboard the USNS Marine... - NARA - 531433.tif 3,000 × 2,406; 6.88 MB
  
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  1st Lt. Clarence E. Coggins in Grenoble, France, 25 August, 1944. (49617772611).jpg 3,600 × 4,718; 2.39 MB
  
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  1st Lt. Goden T. Wright, Biggott, Ark., Mine Platoon Leader, checks a captured German half-track for booby traps, at Ederen, Germany. 5 December, 1944. (49455968501).jpg 3,600 × 4,562; 3.27 MB
  
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  1st Lt. Xavier N. Benziger, Jr., commanding officer of Unit 6485-G, 1157th Signal Service Company, consisting of 2 officers and 96 Chinese enlisted men on Pier 6, about to embark on HMS Empress of Scotland (49658592422).jpg 7,849 × 6,474; 5.59 MB
  
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  1st Platoon, Co. A, 710th Tank Bn., Camp Cooke, Calif. Group shot. During 7 day problem. 28 March, 1944. (49609693106).jpg 3,600 × 2,890; 1.81 MB
  
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  1st Platoon, Co. A, 710th Tank Bn., Camp Cooke, Calif. Group shot. During 7 day problem. 28 March, 1944. (49609931167).jpg 3,600 × 2,816; 2.16 MB
  
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  1st Section, Battery B, 158th Field Artillery Battalion, near Pozzilli, takes a break sitting around the natural rock cave in which they live. 18 December, 1943. (52271382637).jpg 5,422 × 4,243; 8.25 MB
  
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  23rd Marines routing out Japs from pillboxes. 1000 yards from Yellow 2. Iwo Jima. February, 1945. (53409936501).jpg 5,447 × 4,323; 1.74 MB
  
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  23rd Marines routing out Japs in pillbox 1000 yards off yellow -2. Iwo Jima. February, 1945. (53410301733).jpg 5,436 × 4,382; 1.71 MB
  
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  2nd Battalion, 27th Marines landing on Iwo Jima. (49675588113).jpg 3,746 × 2,969; 1.48 MB
  
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  2nd Lieutenant Frances Bullock applies a dressing to a wounded soldier's hand in an Army hospital. - NARA - 196364.jpg 3,000 × 2,419; 2.99 MB
  
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  2nd Lt. Carmen C. Marra, 41 Highland Ave., Pittsfield, Mass., (right), and S Sgt. Dock C. Lin, 13 Bayard St., N.Y., (Left) look over the weapons Lt. Marra used to force the surrender of a German (49616699303).jpg 3,600 × 4,616; 2.11 MB
  
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  2nd Lt. Kathryn Friedrich, ANC, of Flushing, Long Island, makes a patient comfortable aboard a C-47 enroute to a base hospital somewhere in England. 811th Med. Air Evac Sqd., Toul, France, 24 September, 1944. (49777383056).jpg 3,600 × 4,533; 2.08 MB
  
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  2nd Lt. Offa Cosey, Selma, 168th Infantry has his hair cut by a barber of San Benedetto, Italy, 11 October, 1944. (49356087081).jpg 3,600 × 4,531; 2.26 MB
  
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  2nd Lt. Paul V. Barnes of Bakersfield, Calif., moves cautiously through a narrow grimy street of an Italian village with carbine in readiness for signs of the enemy. 30 November, 1944. (49382105726).jpg 3,600 × 4,618; 2.85 MB
  
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  2nd Lt. Richard E. Smith, 55 Mill St., Athens, Ohio, reads the Athens Messenger during a lull in the fighting on the Fifth Army front in Italy. (52611467261).jpg 3,959 × 5,264; 1.79 MB
  
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  2nd Marine Division replacements move up to the front lines on Saipan, 2 July, 1944. (49482215246).jpg 5,755 × 4,398; 2.94 MB
  
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  326th Bombardment Squadron - Emblem.png 300 × 253; 144 KB
  
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  336-H-02-L387 - Troops lined up on Pier 4 before boarding HR-66 for service overseas. 20 December, 1942. (50911299813).jpg 8,612 × 6,901; 2.15 MB
  
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  336-H-03-O1706 - Interior of M-4 tank taken from above, showing steering wheel and inner mechanism of tank. (51575274812).jpg 8,961 × 7,250; 2.19 MB
  
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  336-H-04-P2436 - Italian prisoner of war, Pvt. Cesare Faggioni, of Verona, Italy, on Pier 5, Newport News, with Port Historian, Capt. W. R. Wheeler, 0-917814. (51575282137).jpg 8,961 × 7,306; 2.58 MB
  
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  336-H-05-L2092 - On HR-190 (SS Neo Helas) 21 WAACs sailing for service overseas at Blot. 9 May, 1943. (50911998596).jpg 11,744 × 9,582; 5.34 MB
  
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  336-H-05-L2116 - Colored troops of the 24th Chemical Company decontamination unit, boarding transport AP-13 at Pier X, Newport News. 9 May, 1943. (50912141932).jpg 11,691 × 9,564; 5.43 MB
  
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  336-H-06-P4909 - Informal group of American pilots just after debarking from Empress of Scotland at Pier 6 after nine months' service in Africa, Sicily, and Italy. (51576806604).jpg 11,761 × 9,652; 4.04 MB
  
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  336-H-07-F4175 - M-4 Tanks on Pier 3 before being loaded for overseas service. Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News Virginia. 9 May, 1943. (50911365593).jpg 8,858 × 7,201; 6.46 MB
  
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  336-H-07-L4232 - Two Chinese non-commissioned officers in the American Air Corps, 48th Station Complement Squadron, about to sail for overseas service. 4 September, 1943. (50912076711).jpg 7,293 × 8,914; 5.3 MB
  
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  336-H-07-L4611 - Noted war correspondents and newsreel men shown aboard HR 573, docked at northside of Pier 5, ready to leave for overseas assignments. 4 October, 1943. (50911402548).jpg 8,875 × 7,201; 6.58 MB
  
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  336-H-09-L5002 - This unit 4265-A has been trained for ranger and guerilla fighting by the Office of Strategic Services. (50875355652).jpg 7,934 × 6,559; 6.86 MB
  
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  336-H-09-L5951 - 100th Signal Company, 96th Service Group, Air Corps, on Pier 5 about to board SS Mohawk. They transferred to troop transport at Norfolk Army Base. 3 January, 1944. (50912138946).jpg 7,934 × 6,474; 6.25 MB
  
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  336-H-09-L6237 - Colored enlisted men of unit 5891-E (A detachment of the 9th Cavalry) are shown on pier 2 with Red Cross Canteen Worker, Helen Alston, before sailing overseas. (50875270276).jpg 7,948 × 6,488; 4.44 MB
  
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  336-H-20-F10029 - Pfc. Ken Card, 39554613, Air Corps Special Service, home Canoga Park, California, formerly of Radio-Keith Orpheum, Hollywood, California, is shown entertaining troops (50914504887).jpg 8,123 × 6,691; 5.65 MB
  
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  336-H-24-E10498 - Enlisted men of the Newport News Command, HRPE, are shown in their barracks with shoulder patch collection, and rugs which are woven by them as a hobby. 23 October, 1944. (50914521712).jpg 6,389 × 5,226; 3.39 MB
  
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  3rd Battalion of the 87th Mtn. Inf., 10th Mtn. Div., previously in regimental reserve, moves up to take over positions won by the 1st Bn., 87th Mtn. Inf., during the attack the night of 19-20 Feb. 1945. (49788398506).jpg 7,999 × 6,328; 4 MB
  
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  3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines, and oxen pulling their ammunition, march along road toward Jap positions. Saipan. June, 1944. (52306966423).jpg 5,512 × 4,293; 1.75 MB
  
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  3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines, with oxen utilized to carry their gear and ammunition, march along road towards Jap positions. Saipan. June, 1944. (52309232582).jpg 5,456 × 4,180; 1.67 MB
  
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  3rd Bn., 5th Marines unloading from trucks to move into the hills. Peleliu. October, 1944. (53399497921).jpg 5,498 × 4,457; 3.29 MB
  
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  3rd Division GIs patrol the streets of Mignano, which was leveled by U.S. and German artillery fire. 15 November, 1943. (49382272952).jpg 3,600 × 2,798; 1.87 MB
  
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  3rd ID GIs delivering Christmas gifts in Italy, 1943 (49353346296).jpg 3,600 × 2,820; 2.19 MB
  
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  3rd ID troops prepare for amphibious landing practice in Italy, July 1944 (49349888473) (cropped).jpg 3,461 × 2,427; 1.52 MB
  
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  3rd ID troops prepare for amphibious landing practice in Italy, July 1944 (49349888473).jpg 3,600 × 2,787; 1.72 MB
  
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  3rd Infantry Division on parade, Austria, 1945 (49440928206).jpg 3,600 × 2,994; 1.94 MB
  
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  3rd Infantry Division troops board LCIs prior to Operation Shingle, January 1944 (49353637487).jpg 3,600 × 2,963; 2.23 MB
  
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  3rd wave going in and naval gun fire in the back. September, 1944. Peleliu. (53397037932).jpg 5,244 × 4,196; 1.61 MB
  
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  45th Division GIs take cover from German artillery in the street of Niederbronn Les Bains, France, 10 December, 1944. (49384414117).jpg 3,600 × 2,812; 1.99 MB
  
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  655th Engineer Topographic Battalion map of battalion movements, 17 December 1943 – 6 October 1945.jpg 3,128 × 2,088; 2.93 MB
  
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  6th Armored Div. GIs decorate a Christmas tree in Saarbrücken, Germany, 1944 (49350614327).jpg 3,600 × 2,934; 2.55 MB
  
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  7th Army American medics caring for a soldier wounded on D-Day, lying on a litter on the beachhead, 17 August, 1944. (49355486831).jpg 3,600 × 3,064; 2.24 MB
  
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  7th Army American shore party of Negro African-American and white soldiers digging foxholes in sand after D-Day landing. August, 1944. (49617768841).jpg 3,600 × 2,799; 1.75 MB
  
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  7th Division men entering the troop transport with their barracks bags and equipment for the Marshalls invasion. 21 January, 1944. (49781540236).jpg 3,600 × 4,429; 2.47 MB
  
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  7th Division men looking down at dead Japanese soldiers in a ditch on Kwajalein (49350186136).jpg 3,600 × 4,396; 3.38 MB
  
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  7th Division troops board LSTs to leave Kwajalein, 4 February, 1944. (49350164121).jpg 3,600 × 2,990; 1.8 MB
  
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  7th Infantry division soldiers directing local population for evacuation of island, Kwajalein, 1944 (49350162441).jpg 3,600 × 2,951; 2.57 MB
  
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  80-G-218124 - Anti-aircraft gun crew aboard a Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier in the Central Pacific. 6 March, 1944. (51194403632).jpg 5,531 × 4,424; 2.98 MB
  
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  80-G-37984 - Official press party at time of USS Alabama's first battle practice. December, 1942. (51196192975).jpg 2,768 × 2,211; 995 KB
  
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  80-G-468652 - Officer on Duty Aboard the USS Batfish, May, 1945. (51195330083).jpg 4,671 × 4,743; 7.69 MB
  
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  85th Infantry Division troops pass dead Germans in Verona, Italy, April 1945 (49368787978).jpg 3,600 × 2,923; 1.49 MB
  
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  A 10th Mountain Division soldier watches from a distance as Germans are being taken prisoner, March 3, 1945 (49468016302).jpg 7,999 × 6,410; 3.55 MB
  
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  A 40mm Bofors gun guarding the air on one of the streets of Paris. In the background is the Trocadero. (53067784139).jpg 6,280 × 7,953; 5.66 MB
  
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  A band aboard the USS Iowa performs for the crew on deck, 26 October, 1944. (49773476252).jpg 3,600 × 2,953; 1.79 MB
  
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  A battery of a field artillery unit in action against the German lines near St. Lo, France. (49384181541).jpg 3,600 × 2,797; 2.39 MB
  
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  A Bazar that Isn't Thar. Just back of the Normandy invasion beach, a French bazar is knocked out of business -- a casualty of the heavy naval bombardment that accompanied the assault upon the French coast. (51215091503).jpg 5,625 × 4,762; 5.42 MB
  
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  A Chance Vought F4U Corsair makes a jet assisted take-off. (50835076021).jpg 3,600 × 2,960; 1.05 MB
  
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  A Christmas package is opened by Pfc. Joseph C. Ray, of Owsley, Kansas, a ranger fighting in Germany. 8 December, 1944. (49349926828).jpg 3,600 × 4,577; 2.79 MB
  
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  A Coast Guard LCI lists sharply after being fatally hit during the invasion of the coast of France. One man clings to a life raft (at left), another lies wounded on a stretcher, and a third sprawls dead on the deck. (51244136608).jpg 4,807 × 5,653; 5.95 MB
  
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  A Coast Guard pharmacist's mate gives first aid to an American fighter who has just returned from the liberation beach (51214297640).jpg 5,660 × 4,780; 4.75 MB
  
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  A Coast Guardsman and an Army medic interview a German warrant officer (right) who was captured in the storming of the Southern French coast on D-Day. (51224697803).jpg 5,627 × 4,784; 5.03 MB
  
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  A couple of Marine war dogs and their masters taking a walk along the front lines on Peleliu. September, 1944. (53398630952).jpg 5,435 × 4,311; 2.81 MB
  
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  A deceased American soldier is carried to a collection station near San Pietro, Italy, 31 December 1943 (49449048183).jpg 3,600 × 2,939; 3.38 MB
  
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  A destroyed Japanese AA emplacement on Iwo Jima. (49672368303).jpg 3,802 × 2,833; 2.59 MB
  
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  A father and son, both serving in the army, bid farewell to each other at Anzio, 6 March, 1944. (49353806217).jpg 3,600 × 2,899; 1.91 MB
  
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  A Filipino woman scurries for cover in this unusual picture by a Coast Guard combat photographer at the height of the first-day assault on the beaches of Luzon. (51201939466).jpg 5,640 × 4,753; 6.39 MB
  
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  A French partisan, one of the many springing into action with the arrival of the Allies, fondles a rifle handed him by a US soldier out of a battle-area salvage pile in southern France. August, 1944. (49389507991).jpg 3,600 × 2,940; 1.73 MB
  
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  A GI of the 3rd Infantry Division, 30th IR, investigates a German fort near Mutzig, France, 1944 (49350515472).jpg 3,600 × 2,832; 1.89 MB
  
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  A Jap prisoner who had been hiding in water alongside large pier on Kwajalein, is now being brought in by members of 7th Division. 4 February, 1944. (49350138386).jpg 3,600 × 2,990; 2.06 MB
  
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  A Jap sniper has been cornered in a dugout on the front lines. Man with rifle on the left has just thrown a smoke grenade into hole in center foreground. Iwo Jima. February-March, 1945. (53408175870).jpg 4,563 × 3,577; 1.55 MB
  
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  A Little Chapel Not Far From Hell. It is only a couple miles from the French invasion beach — the little chapel to which American soldiers, sailors and Coast Guardsmen trooped for services the first Sunday after D Day. (51214349555).jpg 5,647 × 4,737; 6.31 MB
  
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  A Marine aboard ship enroute to Okinawa with the Second Division is shown placing his lifejacket on his "pal". (52310753595).jpg 4,084 × 5,348; 2.59 MB
  
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  A Marine assault squad on beach at Iwo Jima awaits orders to move out. Wrecked planes on landing strip in background. (53409940181).jpg 5,368 × 4,073; 1.44 MB
  
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  A Marine automatic rifleman fires his weapon 3-400 yards beyond our frontline to protect some wounded Marines in the same hole with him, who are being fired upon by the Japs. Saipan. June, 1944. (52337191193).jpg 5,105 × 4,154; 2.75 MB
  
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  A Marine automatic rifleman fires his weapon to protect some wounded Marines in same hole with him, who are being fired upon by the Japs. (49479969393).jpg 5,706 × 4,586; 3.32 MB
  
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  A Marine bazooka team in the ruins of Garapan, Saipan. (49479939413).jpg 5,581 × 4,525; 3.17 MB
  
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  A Marine flamethrowing LVT paves the way for a Leatherneck advance by burning out enemy points of resistance on the small ridges of Peleliu. (49479720491).jpg 5,605 × 4,129; 2.84 MB
  
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  A Marine is pulled aboard a Coast Guard transport after returning from battle on Eniwetok, 1944. (49681120791).jpg 3,600 × 4,421; 4.14 MB
  
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  A Marine light flame-throwing tank cuts loose on some Japanese holed up in a cave at the edge of a wood on Saipan. Leatherneck riflemen standby to account for any of the Japs who make a run for it. (49482465972).jpg 5,685 × 4,457; 3.35 MB
  
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  A Marine machine gun nest on Bougainville, near Hill 600. (49685842291).jpg 5,825 × 4,668; 2.91 MB
  
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  A Marine milking a cow. Saipan. June, 1944. (52348621827).jpg 5,229 × 4,260; 3.25 MB
  
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  A Marine operates an M1917 machine gun on Iwo Jima. (49482454006).jpg 5,589 × 4,229; 1.91 MB
  
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  A Marine patrol with a Japanese prisoner on Guadalcanal. (49686158317).jpg 5,869 × 4,690; 2.5 MB
  
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  A Marine signals his comrade to hold fire as a Japanese civilian emerges from a cave on Okinawa. (49685458348).jpg 5,663 × 4,342; 2.55 MB
  
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  A Marine sniper and his spotter on Okinawa. (49685978276).jpg 5,603 × 4,462; 2.74 MB
  
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  A Marine spotter yells out coordinates of a Japanese machine gun nest to be relayed to artillery units. (49482378106).jpg 5,865 × 4,633; 2.52 MB
  
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  A Marine stands near the bodies of recently-killed Japanese troops on Cape Gloucester. (49670660298).jpg 5,816 × 4,595; 3.56 MB
  
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  A Marine takes a drink of milk just obtained from the cow beside him. Saipan. June, 1944. (52306758137).jpg 5,410 × 4,367; 2.55 MB
  
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  A mortarman of the 17th Inf., 12th Armored Division, digs an emplacement near Rohrbach, France, December 1944 (49350693372).jpg 3,600 × 2,820; 1.9 MB
  
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  A native woman is given medical attention by 7th Div. medics on Kwajalein Island. 3 February, 1944. (49349710378).jpg 3,600 × 2,965; 1.91 MB
  
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  A Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat lands on its carrier following a strike at Jap installations in the Philippines. 6 February, 1945 (50832779701).jpg 3,600 × 2,965; 1.32 MB
  
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  A relaxing U.S. paratrooper tells two U.S. Coast Guardsmen what happened when his unit dropped on Sicilian soil. The paratrooper, his work done, is aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport, disembarking troops. (51238762784).jpg 5,651 × 4,766; 5.39 MB
  
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  A sergeant at Fort Myer, Virginia demonstrates a "walkie-talkie" in the field. August, 1942. (49750489543).jpg 5,136 × 4,939; 1.84 MB
  
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  A serviceman with his date outside of the entrance to Kansas Hall, Arlington Farms, on Sunday afternoon. May, 1943. (49746968748).jpg 4,980 × 5,244; 2.42 MB
  
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  A Sig Corps pigeon has a message capsule attached to its leg. (50835862797).jpg 3,600 × 4,504; 2.41 MB
  
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  A Sig Corps pigeon is placed into a cage with 5 other pigeons. (50835873342).jpg 3,600 × 2,778; 1.8 MB
  
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  A small unit of American infantrymen advances double-time through battle-scarred town of Echtz, Germany, December, 1944 (49348074987).jpg 3,600 × 2,823; 2.85 MB
  
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  A soldier of the 29th Infantry Division digs out a furrow in which a telephone cable will be laid, Engelsdorf, Germany, Dec. 1944 (49383735608).jpg 3,600 × 4,416; 3 MB
  
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  A U.S. Coast Guardsman extends a helping hand to a Marine*, loaded down with equipment, as he comes aboard a Coast Guard manned combat transport in a South Pacific Port (51205455367).jpg 3,947 × 4,818; 3.24 MB
  
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  A U.S. Coast Guardsman quenches the thirst worked up while standing a gun watch under the hot Pacific sun. (49681449332).jpg 3,600 × 4,431; 2.67 MB
  
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  A warbird takes off for battle. Guadalcanal. February, 1943. (52303851890).jpg 5,671 × 4,283; 2.11 MB
  
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  A Weasel is used to pack supplies to an outpost of the 87th Regiment, about 4 miles north of Maresca, Italy, February 6, 1945. (49468048112).jpg 7,999 × 6,317; 3.42 MB
  
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  A wounded Marine is brought to the Fourth Division evacuation hospital by his comrades on Iwo Jima. (49673135522).jpg 2,896 × 3,794; 2.14 MB
  
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  A wounded Marine is lifted onto a jeep converted into an ambulance on Cape Glouchester. (51052646773).jpg 6,315 × 5,030; 14.46 MB
  
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  A wounded Marine keeps a lonely vigil over the poncho-covered forms of dead buddies as he awaits evacuation to a rear base at Saipan (49479922868).jpg 5,693 × 4,529; 3 MB
  
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  A wounded Marine receives a blood transfusion behind the lines on Iwo Jima. (49487570117).jpg 5,746 × 4,552; 1.98 MB
  
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  A wounded Marine receives a double transfusion of blood at an aid station on Iwo Jima. (49486877228).jpg 5,724 × 4,471; 1.76 MB
  
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  Aboard a Coast Guard 'sub-buster' on convoy patrol as a new load of death-dealing bullets are placed in the bandoliers. (51439090541).jpg 5,648 × 4,765; 4.94 MB
  
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  Aboard a Coast Guard 'sub-buster' on convoy patrol as a new load of death-dealing bullets are placed in the bandoliers. (51439314743).jpg 5,651 × 4,770; 4.97 MB
  
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  Aboard a Coast Guard LCI headed to the beach of France, these Army men find "standing room only" in a troop compartment. (51215104483).jpg 4,826 × 3,900; 4.21 MB
  
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  Aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport off Southern France, Army paratrooper Odis P. Powell (left) of Seaside, Calif., who broke his leg in the landing there, shows Navy pharmacist's mate first class... (51237291697).jpg 3,970 × 4,797; 3.53 MB
  
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  Aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport somewhere in the Atlantic, a Coast Guard gun crew mans a 40 mm anti-aircraft battery. (51439804994).jpg 5,657 × 4,774; 5.09 MB
  
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  Aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport somewhere in the Pacific, American fighting men lighten the hours of waiting before combat with a jam session on deck (51207244050).jpg 5,629 × 4,728; 5.25 MB