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Friday night and it's Liberty Call. This week, we're dancing in Honolulu. Have a great weekend! LIFE Archive Photo by Ralph Morse, 1942.
Photos WW2 US Forces
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A lone 105mm howitzer lurking in dense foliage on the island of Oahu, Ha., circa 1942.
(LIFE / Morse)
(LIFE / Morse)
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USS Woolsey DD-437 refuels from USS Mattaponi AO-41 in early 1943
Pictures taken from USS Nicholson DD-442 during a convoy to Casablanca
USS Woolsey was a Gleaves-class Destroyer which spent most of WW2 in the Atlantic on convoy escort duty, she was credited with the sinking of German Submarine U-73, and assisting in the sinking of U-960 & U-173
Wooley was also credited with breaking up an enemy tank formation during the Salerno Italy landings with USS Bristol DD-453 and also knocking out two German tanks during the Southern France landings near Saint-Raphaël
USS Woolsey earned seven battle stars for her WW2 service, she was decommissioned in 1947 and sold for scrapping in 1974
LIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer
Pictures taken from USS Nicholson DD-442 during a convoy to Casablanca
USS Woolsey was a Gleaves-class Destroyer which spent most of WW2 in the Atlantic on convoy escort duty, she was credited with the sinking of German Submarine U-73, and assisting in the sinking of U-960 & U-173
Wooley was also credited with breaking up an enemy tank formation during the Salerno Italy landings with USS Bristol DD-453 and also knocking out two German tanks during the Southern France landings near Saint-Raphaël
USS Woolsey earned seven battle stars for her WW2 service, she was decommissioned in 1947 and sold for scrapping in 1974
LIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer
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Lieutenant-General Mark W. Clark, GOC US 5th Army in conversation with senior officers of the Italian Co-beligerent Army (Esercito Cobelligerante Italiano) which came over to the Allied side following the armistice of September 8th, 1943.
Leading the Italian delegation is commander of the ECI, General Vincenzo Dapino.
Among the US senior officers present was Lieutenant-General Fred L. Walker, GOC 36th (Texas) Division.
December 9th, 1943.
Leading the Italian delegation is commander of the ECI, General Vincenzo Dapino.
Among the US senior officers present was Lieutenant-General Fred L. Walker, GOC 36th (Texas) Division.
December 9th, 1943.
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SBD Dauntless’ from Guadalcanal bomb the Japanese airfield on Munda, New Georgia in February/March 1943
The only individual we were able to identify in the pictures so far was USN Officer Norwood Axtel Campbell
LIFE Magazine Archives - Scherschel Photographer
The only individual we were able to identify in the pictures so far was USN Officer Norwood Axtel Campbell
LIFE Magazine Archives - Scherschel Photographer
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"Cautiously advancing through the jungle, while on patrol in Japanese territory off the Numa-Numa Trail, this member of the 93rd Infantry Division is among the first Negro foot soldiers to go into action in the South Pacific theater.", 1st May,1944
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Salvage crews work to raise the minelayer USS Oglala (CM-4) which was sunk during Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Following completion of salvage and initial repairs at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, she left for the West Coast December 23rd 1942.
As rebuilt, USS Oglala (ARG-1) is seen here in Southwestern Pacific area in 1944 and painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 6d.
Striken from Navy list in 1946 and mothballed until 1965, Ex-Oglala (ARG-1) who was built in 1907, met her faith and was scrapped on December the same year at the Joffe Brothers Shipbreaking Yard inRichmond, California.
As rebuilt, USS Oglala (ARG-1) is seen here in Southwestern Pacific area in 1944 and painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 6d.
Striken from Navy list in 1946 and mothballed until 1965, Ex-Oglala (ARG-1) who was built in 1907, met her faith and was scrapped on December the same year at the Joffe Brothers Shipbreaking Yard inRichmond, California.
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"A Craig Field Cadet in the Advanced Flying School climbing into the cockpit of his training ship just before going on an altitude mission into the skies over Selma, Alabama."
Image thanks to Alabama Department of Archives and History
Image thanks to Alabama Department of Archives and History
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2nd Battalion, 27th Marines landing on Iwo Jima.
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