Photos WW2 US Forces

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He fought on Guadalcanal as a Carlson Raider, received a Purple Heart on Okinawa, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Korea . . . .
Semper Fi, Sgt Red Cloud!

Sgt. Mitchell Red Cloud, USMC, after returning from WWII. (PC: wikipedia)

A group of Marine Raiders stand in front of a captured Japanese dugout on Bougainville, 1944. (PC: USMC Archives)

Lillian “Nellie” Red Cloud, the mother of Cpl. Red Cloud, is presented her son’s Medal of Honor by General of the Army Omar Bradley at a Pentagon ceremony in April 1951. Red Cloud's younger brother is at his mother’s side.(PC: US Army)

The USNS RED CLOUD (T-AKR-313). (PC: wikipedia)

 

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Airfield mishaps involving USN Carrier Aircraft in Safi Morocco during Operation Torch - November 1942
The planes are from USS Santee CVE-29, a USN Sangamon class escort carrier
LIFE Magazine Archives - Eliot Elisofon Photographer

 

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US Coast Guard personnel transporting supplies to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, circa Nov 20-23,1943; note the wreck of an American LCM in center of photo. She had been carrying a Marine medium Sherman tank to the beach but took a direct hit from Japanese shore batteries on Betio.

 

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U.S. Marine Corps detachment on USS Texas (BB-35) in early 1941 peace time era.
The colors are original.

 

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US Navy destroyer launches depth charges to protect a convoy from German U-Boats.

 

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The Sullivan brothers, George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert aboard the USS Juneau. Tragically all 5 died when the Juneau was torpedoed and sunk in 1942. This tragedy led the US government to impose a law to separate brothers and ensure that a brother always survives in case the others fall in combat. In the movie "Saving Private Ryan" this law goes into effect and is the main point of the plot.

 

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Men of Co. D, Provisional Anti-Tank Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, fire 81mm mortars during the Carolina Manuevers. November 1941.

 

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USS Cole DD-155 off of Safi Morocco during Operation Torch - November 1942
Picture taken from USS Philadelphia CL-41
On November 8, 1942, USS Cole landed 175 men of the 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, under enemy fire on a pier at Safi, Morocco
USS Cole received the Presidential Unit Citation for her performance in this mission
USS Cole was a Wickes-class destroyer launched in 1919, she was named for Edward B. Cole, a United States Marine Corps officer who died as a result of the wounds he received at the Battle of Belleau Wood in WW1
In addition to the Presidential Unit Citation, USS Cole received three battle stars for her WW2 service, sold for scrap October 1947
LIFE Magazine Archives - Eliot Elisofon Photographer

 

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USS Missouri (BB-63) (left) transferring personnel to USS Iowa (BB-61) on 20 Aug 1945 off the coast of Japan

USS Enterprise en route to New York for Navy Day Fleet Review, October 1945

 

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Photo by W. Eugene Smith. World War II, The Pacific Campaign, The Battle of Iwo Jima. US Marine demolition team blasting out a cave on hill 382, February 1945.

 

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Fired unexploded Battleship rounds recovered at Iwo Jima and piled in a munitions scrap area - March 1945
Most of these are 14” HE shells, Note the nose fuses have been removed
LIFE Magazine Archives - W. Eugene Smith Photographer

 

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In the first shot, North American B-25 PBJ Mitchell aircraft are seen here at either Bomber #1 or Bomber #2 airfield on Espiritu Santo, March 1944.
What's remarkable about this and many other shots of Santo was it was taken by renowned photographer Horace Bristol, who was one of Life magazine's founding photographers in 1936.
In 1941 he was recruited to the U.S. Naval Aviation Photographic Unit documenting WWII throughout the South Pacific. The second photo shows Horace in what could be Base Button on Santo.
His work has been displayed around the world including the J Paul Getty Museum and LA County Museum of Art.

 

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Paul Newman.

 

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WARNING! Picture of fallen personnel
Knocked-out M3 Lee near Sened Tunisia - February 1943
It appears the M3 got hit, the one poor soul bailed, then it kept rolling for a short distance over that tree
LIFE Magazine Archives - Eliot Elisofon Photographer