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The medical evacuation of wounded ground troops by crew of the escort carrier USS Manila Bay. 1st July 1944 Saipan
Photos WW2 US Forces
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The GIs are walking in two columns, well-spaced, though not necessarily to the right as advised by the sign!
Okinawa, June 1945.
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Okinawa, June 1945.
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All three of the New Mexico Class Battleships off of Hawaii in 1940
Front to back;
USS New Mexico BB-40
USS Mississippi BB-41
USS Idaho BB-42
Original Color and B/W Pictures
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer
Front to back;
USS New Mexico BB-40
USS Mississippi BB-41
USS Idaho BB-42
Original Color and B/W Pictures
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer
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USS Mississippi BB-41 off of Hawaii in 1940
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer
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29 October 1942, The Alaska Highway officially opens to military traffic.
With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, coupled with their military incursions into the Aleutian Islands, Alaska became a potential Japanese invasion route to Canada and the USA, so both the US and Canadian governments agreed that the road should be built.
With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, coupled with their military incursions into the Aleutian Islands, Alaska became a potential Japanese invasion route to Canada and the USA, so both the US and Canadian governments agreed that the road should be built.
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March 1944 and ground crews attach a tow bar to a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber at Bomber #2 airfield on Espiritu Santo. US Archives photo.
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US Navy Sailors at the Black Cat Café for a night out in Honolulu Hawaii – Summer 1940
Ideally situated at the corner of Hotel and Richards streets, the Cat provided servicemen with drinks, food, slot machines, and various other types of entertainment, but the food at the Cat was the major draw, prices were rock-bottom - the menu in 1941 listed hot dogs for 10 cents, hamburgers for 15 cents, a roast turkey dinner for 50 cents, and the most expensive item was the porterhouse steak with mushrooms for a dollar
LIFE Magazine Archives – Carl Mydans Photographer
Ideally situated at the corner of Hotel and Richards streets, the Cat provided servicemen with drinks, food, slot machines, and various other types of entertainment, but the food at the Cat was the major draw, prices were rock-bottom - the menu in 1941 listed hot dogs for 10 cents, hamburgers for 15 cents, a roast turkey dinner for 50 cents, and the most expensive item was the porterhouse steak with mushrooms for a dollar
LIFE Magazine Archives – Carl Mydans Photographer
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WWII. Kweilen, China. c 1943/44. A USAAF Curtiss P-40N Warhawk of the 74th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group.
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There's a reason for the puzzled expression exhibited by Major Loren W Herway, Indianola, Iowa, shown examining the damage inflicted on his 9th Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt by a direct hit from 88mm. flak. He's still wondering how the P-47, with supercharger, hydraulic system and rudder controls battered, held together to permit a belly landing. Major Herway managed the crippled plane back to his base, circled the field for fifteen minutes while ambulances, crash trucks, and firemen assembled, then made a belly landing, skidding 500 yards. As service men were towing the plane away, the entire tail assembly fell away.
Served in the Army/Air Force for 28 years. Died age 68, killed by a falling tree he had been chopping down
Served in the Army/Air Force for 28 years. Died age 68, killed by a falling tree he had been chopping down
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USS Cocopa ATF-101 under the command of Lieutenant Commander James B. Johnson accepts the surrender and rescues 19 Japanese holdouts on the island of Anatahan, North of Saipan on June 30, 1951
Originally numbering 30, the holdouts were survivors from 2-3 Japanese shipwrecks in the area during 1944
It seems they fought over a lone Japanese woman, Kazuko Higa, who was the Widow of Kikuichiro Higa, a Japanese Overseer who had vanished in 1944 while on a trip to a neighboring island
She ruled over the men and supposedly kept a rotating "harem" of five men. Eleven of the holdouts had died under "mysterious" circumstances before the rescue
Kazuka Higa had already been rescued separately when these pictures were taken
LIFE Magazine Archives - Michael Rougier Photographer
Originally numbering 30, the holdouts were survivors from 2-3 Japanese shipwrecks in the area during 1944
It seems they fought over a lone Japanese woman, Kazuko Higa, who was the Widow of Kikuichiro Higa, a Japanese Overseer who had vanished in 1944 while on a trip to a neighboring island
She ruled over the men and supposedly kept a rotating "harem" of five men. Eleven of the holdouts had died under "mysterious" circumstances before the rescue
Kazuka Higa had already been rescued separately when these pictures were taken
LIFE Magazine Archives - Michael Rougier Photographer
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