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• Mar 27, 2021

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GIs in the rear area somewhere in the PTO.

 

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• Mar 27, 2021

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B-24 tail gunner

 

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B-17 crew. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Based at Amendola, Italy.

 

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• Mar 27, 2021

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Medics of the 118th Medical Battalion, 43rd Infantry Division carry wounded men out of the jungles of New Georgia to a waiting Ambo-Jeep.

 

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• Mar 29, 2021

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US warships and Fuji mountain.1945.

 

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• Mar 29, 2021

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A GI with his "homemade" washing machine.

 

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• Mar 29, 2021

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Men of Merrill’s Marauders cross a river with their pack horses on a recently constructed bridge. Burma, 1944.

 

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• Mar 29, 2021

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330th Bomb Group. Roy Westberg, standing 2nd from the right, was killed in action after being shot down in Combat near Truk Island in April of 1944.

 

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• Apr 3, 2021

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P-38 Lightning Lockheed P38 'Arkansas Traveler' at Clastres Airfield, France in October 1944

 

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• Apr 3, 2021

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B-24 of 786th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

 

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• Apr 11, 2021

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Japanese-held Wake Island under attack by U.S. carrier-based TBM Avengers in November 1943

B-29s dropping bombs over Japan, July/August 1945

 

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• Apr 17, 2021

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B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 398th Bombardment Group approaching their bombing run on Neumünster, Germany, 16 April1945

 

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Douglas SBD “Dauntless” scout/dive bombers heading for a raid on Japanese-held Wake Island. 5 Oct 1943

 

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• Apr 26, 2021

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The Battle of Saipan, 1944. Native islanders had been hiding to escape the fighting between US and Japanese forces. The sole living person among the hundreds of corpses in one cave was this baby who almost smothered before soldiers found him and rushed him to hospital.

 

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A U.S. Marine rests behind a cart on a rubble-strewn street during the battle to take Saipan from occupying Japanese forces. Battle of Saipan, 1944

 

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Marines followed tanks against the last Japanese defenders with machine gunners providing cover. Three men alongside the photographer were hit just before he took the picture. The Battle of Saipan, 1944

 

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• May 15, 2021

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B-17G from 379th Bomb Group, June 1944

A squadron of the 91st BG enroute to the target of the day over Oberfaffenhofen, Germany on March 18, 1944,

 

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• May 15, 2021

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Delivered W Palm Beach 8/1/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Biskra 28/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Naples 1/8/43 with Bob Rast, Alvarado, Ponemone, Bigelow, Dibble, Shea, Anderson, Nichols, Smith, Mathews; flak hit knocked off wing, crashed target area.

 

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• May 16, 2021

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Infantrymen in action during the fighting in Tunisia, February 1943. Image by Life Magazine photographer Eliot Elisofon.

 

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• May 23, 2021

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February 14, 1945, near Aboncourt, France, Sergeant Elvin Harley (Kalamazoo, Michigan) being kissed by a little French girl. This proud member of the 3rd Armored Division survived the rest of the war and returned to Michigan.