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• Sep 18, 2021

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USS Wachapreague (AGP-8) refuels a PT boat on 20 October 1944 during the voyage from Palau to Leyte

 

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USS Wisconsin BB-64 firing her 16”/50 guns during her shakedown - August 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer

 

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John Robinson Robbins (left) from Harrison, Maine. Douglas Dauntless Tailgunner/radioman USMC enlisted 1943 "for the duration of the national emergency"

 

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US Army Sterling T26 8 x 8 12-ton Tank Transporter with an M26 Pershing tank - 1944

 

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US Navy flight attendants attached to the new US Navy air evacuation squadrons near an R5D aircraft in the Mariana Islands. From left to right: Lieutenant Lydia Masserine; Lieutenant Stella Maker, Lieutenant Dorothy Waud; Lieutenant Hope Toone; Lieutenant Wimmifrea Jennings and Lieutenant Mae Hancock, April 1945. Photo: US Navy National Museum.

 

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The real "Band of Brothers" of Easy Company, 506th PIR, in Eindhoven, September 1944. Gordon Carson and Frank Perconte with Dutch souvenirs, "klompen" (clogs).

 

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VERY COOL......More great pics of the Salerno invasion and again another first I've never seen.....USN PT boats running the coastline during the invasion!! THANKS for posting all those--Great stuff!!
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AWESOME photos of the USS WISCONSIN battleship and the big guns firing........GREAT STUFF!! Thanks for posting those to.

 

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USAAF Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters photographed during the Aleutian Islands Campaign - 1943
Planes Identified by José-Daniel Cabanilles;
“74" Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning
“80" named "Itsy Bitsy"
Original Color & BW Pictures
LIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer

 

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Bitish Army General J. L. Hawksworth and Rear Admiral Richard L. Connolly aboard the Biscayne, September 6, 1943, as they prepared for landings in Salerno, Italyr

 

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Japanese Personnel surrender to US Marines at Kurihara Naval base, Honshu, Japan - September 1945
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer

 

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