Photos WW2 US Forces

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4th Infantry Division Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. is laid to rest in a temporary American cemetery near Sainte-Mère-Église, July 12, 1944.

 

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12 December 1943 - Private Ernest Wilson, Baltimore, Maryland, L Company, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, sipping coffee after completing a mule trip up a mountain with the pack mule train. He was killed two days later.

 

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Oberhofen (Alsace) February 9, 1945: A Tank Destroyer M10 from 636th TD Battalion passes before a Sherman M4 that has just been destroyed. In the center, medics treat an injured GI

 

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Two German prisoners being taken to the 6th Division Prisoner of War Encampment in Brest, France, on August 28, 1944

 

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TBM-1C Avengers of VT-2 with wheels and arrester hooks down above the carrier Hornet (Essex-class) after a strike on Guam, 18 Jul 1944. Note rocket rails and ASB radar antennas under the wings.

 

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Shermans of the 21st Tank Battalion, 10th Armored Division disabled by panzers of the 17th Volksgrenadier Division, 1945

 

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A US Marine armed with a BAR automatic rifle, inspects a Japanese position on Guam, 1944.

 

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24-foot self-righting rescue motor launch dropped from an RAF Hudson rescue aircraft to the crew of a US B-17 Fortress that ditched in the North Sea, 26 Jul 1943.

 

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Captured at the split-second it cleared a Japanese merchant ship, this A-20 Havoc from the 89th Squadron, 3rd Bomb Group completes a precise low-level attack over Wewak, New Guinea, in March 1944.
The A-20G had been hit in the engine while attacking. The pilot decided to press on with the attack … The wingtip and propeller of the A-20G clipped the mast of the Japanese freighter TAIEI MARU which was hit and sank… The A-20G had to ditch and only the pilot survived - the gunner went down with the plane.

 

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Pictures taken during the US 2nd Armored Division advance towards Avranches Normandy - July 30, 1944
Most of these pictures were taken along the D49 road at "La Lande des Morts" (Land of the Dead)
During the night of July 29/30, 1944, fierce fighting broke out at La Lande des Morts, where the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment caught up with and destroyed a retreating German armored column.

 

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Japanese-American soldiers of 2nd Battalion, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team playing taps after riflemen fired salute, memorial ceremony for the fallen, Cecina area, Italy, 30 Jul 1944
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697th Field Artillery Battalion firing a 240mm howitzer in Mignano, Italy, on January 30, 1944.

 

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A pair of M8 'Greyhound' Armored Cars of 'C' Company, 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd US Armored Division, turn from Rue de Vire into Rue de la Forêt, Saint-Sever-Calvados, Normandy. 3 August 1944

 

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Sgt. John C. Clark and S/Sgt. Ford M. Shaw (left to right) clean their rifles in bivouac area alongside the East West Trail, Bougainville. They are members of Co. E, 25th Combat Team, 93rd Division..." April 4, 1944.

 

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August 9, 1943
Administering blood plasma to Pvt. Roy W. Humphrey (from Toledo, Ohio) at the 7th Infantry Regiment (3d Infantry Division) Aid Station, Sant’Agata, Sicily, after he was wounded by shrapnel.
(Pvt. Humphrey died the next day, August 10, 1943, at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in San Stefano, close to where the photo was taken.)

 

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13 August 1943. B-17 Fortresses of the 91st Bomb Group nearing the Dornier Assembly Plant at Meulan, France at dawn.

 

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Men of Company K, 3rd Battalion, US 27th Infantry Regiment along the Zieta Trail, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 12 Aug 1943

 

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A German soldier passes a knocked out M3 Lee of the 2nd Battalion, 13th Armored Regiment, US 1st Armored Division in Tunisia, 1942. 2 frontal penetrations are visible

 

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A U.S. Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 Warhawk of the 11th Fighter Squadron, 343rd Fighter Group undergoes engine warm-up at Adak Airfield, Alaska. 1943

 

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Soldiers celebrate with a captured German flag in front of a destroyed Panther tank. The group of infantrymen were left behind to "mop-up" in Chambois, France, last stronghold of the Germans in the Falaise Gap area. 20 Aug 1944