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Tigers of the 501st Schwere Panzer Abteilung in what was known as the 'graveyard' in Beja, Tunisia 1943.
Credit IWM.
Credit IWM.
Photos WW2 US Forces
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After the aggression on Pearl Harbor, somewhere in Delaware is this bunker to protect civilans against Axis air raids.
The year is unknown.
The year is unknown.
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Man working on hull of U.S. submarine at Electric Boat Co. Groton Connecticut by Charles Fenno Jacobs in 1943. American workers made a staggering contribution to victory during WWII building 5,777 merchant ships and 1,556 naval vessels.
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USMC tank crew member takes a break on Saipan.
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Japanese prisoners are marched away from the front, past an LVT, by soldiers of the 27th Infantry Division. Saipan. June 18, 1944.
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Wasps Ann Mc Clellan (in the cockpit, 1921-2005) et Ann Johnson (to the left).
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United States Army ground and air generals confer with their Chief, Lieutenant General Millard F. Harmon, commanding Army forces in the South Pacific area, at the close of the successful Guadalcanal campaign. Major General Alexander M. Patch, Jr., left, who commanded the Guadalcanal ground action; General Harmon and Major General Nathan F. Twining, commanding the Army's Air Forces in the South Pacific
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"Eat my dust!"
An M4A1 of the US 1st Armored Division at speed during the fighting at El Guettar, Tunisia, April 1943.
(LIFE / Eliot Elisofon)
An M4A1 of the US 1st Armored Division at speed during the fighting at El Guettar, Tunisia, April 1943.
(LIFE / Eliot Elisofon)
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The White Motor Company took out this ad in the Saturday Evening Post, circa 1943.
The vehicle is a 75mm M3 Gun Motor Carriage / tank destroyer.
They were actually built by the Autocar Company, but the basic half-track on which it was based evolved from White's M3 Scout car.
They were rightly proud of their contribution towards the US war effort.
The vehicle is a 75mm M3 Gun Motor Carriage / tank destroyer.
They were actually built by the Autocar Company, but the basic half-track on which it was based evolved from White's M3 Scout car.
They were rightly proud of their contribution towards the US war effort.
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Sailors on the USS Indianapolis CA-35 off of Hawaii in 1940 watch the movie “His Girl Friday" starring Cary Grant
My wife Stacey identified the Movie
USS Indianapolis had a “box” for the movie speakers underneath the screen, her sister-ship USS Portland didn’t have this set-up
The speakers had hinged covers that covered them up when not in use
The USS Indianapolis builders plaque is visible on the left catapult support
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer
My wife Stacey identified the Movie
USS Indianapolis had a “box” for the movie speakers underneath the screen, her sister-ship USS Portland didn’t have this set-up
The speakers had hinged covers that covered them up when not in use
The USS Indianapolis builders plaque is visible on the left catapult support
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer
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Grumman's radical XF5F Skyrocket always looks to me like it's in the process of eating its own wing!
A late 30s design to fulfill a USN requirement for a carrier-borne interceptor it was plagued with technical problems which were never fully resolved so it never progresed beyond the prototype stage.
(LIFE Collections)
A late 30s design to fulfill a USN requirement for a carrier-borne interceptor it was plagued with technical problems which were never fully resolved so it never progresed beyond the prototype stage.
(LIFE Collections)
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An M4 of the US 1st Armored Division moves up to the front during the battle for Cassino, Italy, circa 1944.
Note the narrow early pattern "Combination Gun Mount, M34" and the helmet and musette to hand, attached to the service light brush guard.
The tracks are actually British pattern, solid rubber "double I" WE210s.
(LIFE / George Rodger)
Note the narrow early pattern "Combination Gun Mount, M34" and the helmet and musette to hand, attached to the service light brush guard.
The tracks are actually British pattern, solid rubber "double I" WE210s.
(LIFE / George Rodger)
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"Merci mademoiselle ... mais juste un peu s'il vous plaît!"
A grateful ma'mselle shares some "Vin de Victoire" with her American liberators from the 3rd Infantry Division, Provence, August 1944.
A grateful ma'mselle shares some "Vin de Victoire" with her American liberators from the 3rd Infantry Division, Provence, August 1944.
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Portrait of a soldier of the US 88th Infantry Division ...aka "Fightin' Blue Devils"...photographed in the Northern Italian Appennine mountains, April 1945.
The 88th commonly applied their divisional SSI to their helmets, as seen here.
He is holding an SCR-536 "Handie-Talkie" ( the "Walkie-Talkie" was the back-pack SCR-300 radio)
The 88th commonly applied their divisional SSI to their helmets, as seen here.
He is holding an SCR-536 "Handie-Talkie" ( the "Walkie-Talkie" was the back-pack SCR-300 radio)
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WASPs at Foster Field, Victoria, Texas. Mai 1944. Wasps : Pauline S. Cutler,Dorothy Ehrhardt, Jennie M. Hill, Etta Mae Hollinger, Lucille R. Cary, Jane B. Shirley, Dorothy H. Beard, Kathryn L. Boyd.
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Topping up the oil in a Jeep. I believe the GIs called the jerrycan extension nozzle a "Donkey d***".
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“Crewmen of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier banish post-battle nervous strain by taking a swim in the warm waters of a lagoon in the Marshalls only a few days after laying siege to and conquering Roi Island in the Kwajalein atoll," read the notes of this official U.S. Navy photo, bought by National Geographic in 1946.
Thirty-five thousand troops had been sent to Roi Island and its neighbor Namur Island—part of the Marshall Island chain in the Pacific theater—for an assault on January 31, 1944. The islands, part of a former base for Japanese operations, were won in a day.
Thirty-five thousand troops had been sent to Roi Island and its neighbor Namur Island—part of the Marshall Island chain in the Pacific theater—for an assault on January 31, 1944. The islands, part of a former base for Japanese operations, were won in a day.
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Capt. Don Gentile of the 4th FG with his P-51. One of the top 8th AF aces he wrecked this aircraft while flying too low showing off for photographers.
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