Photos WW2 US Forces

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Despite receiving a bomb hit which severed the left tail stabilizer, the pilot of this 392 BG B24 was able to fly it back to England. A landing was impossible so the crew succesfully bailed out.

 

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B24 of 98th BG received a direct flak hit over Wiener Neustadt on 2.November 1943. Surviving crewmembers bailed out.

 

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B24 of 460BG over Germany hit by flak. See the crew member trying to escape through the forward watch before the upper turret in the third pic.

 

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Doomed B24 Liberators, seen from a German fighter gun camera.

 

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Pvt. A. B. Duncan (left) and Cpl. A. R. Perry, both Nashville marines, stand with their rifles after being relieved from front line action during the battle of Iwo Jima.
Private Duncan, husband of Mrs. Mary Ella Midgett Duncan of 332 Vivelle Street, participated in the taking of Hill 382 on Iwo Jima with the Fourth Marine Division recently. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Duncan, 308 Boscoble Heights, the former employee of the Union Ice Cream Company is father of a daughter, Linda Sue, aged two and a half.
Corporal Perry, 19, is the son of Mrs. A. R. Perry, 2108 Gladstone Avenue. He recently was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action with a marine rifle platoon during the invasion of Saipan. Perry is a veteran of the Marshall Islands and Tinian invasions. He was employed in Detroit, Mich., prior to entering the service in March 1943.

 

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Rescue boats being built at Peterson's Boat Yard in Nyack, NY on The Hudson River. The Boat Yard is still in existence.

 

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1) M3 Lee U.S.A. # W-309490, D Company, 2/13 Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division. Souk el Arba, Tunisia, 23 Nov 1942.
2) F Company, 2nd Battalion, 13th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division. Medjez el Bab, Tunisia. Nov 1942

 

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Colonel Doolittle and his crews just before the air raid over japan . April 1942

 

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First Marine Air Wing Thanksgiving Day Dinner on Nov. 24, 1943

 

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Before the breakout, life within the Anzio beach-head was tough and frequently downright dangerous!
However, this evidently did not prevent the American Red Cross from setting up camp in order to provide the troops with coffee and doughnuts!
(LIFE / George Silk, 04-1944)

 

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M31TRV somewhere in Italy - May 1944
The M31 Tank Recovery Vehicle was based on the M3 Lee chassis, with a dummy turret & dummy 75mm gun, a 60,000 lb winch was also installed
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer

 

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US mortarmen of the 45th "Thunderbird" Division in action in the Anzio beachead, April 1944.
Their mortar is an M1 81mm...a derivative of the French Brandt mortar.
(LIFE / Silk)

 

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As dugouts go, this one looks like some care was taken in its construction.
It was probably previously occupied by the Germans as a part of their defence line but hastily abandoned in the face of the northward advance of the US 5th Army / 36th ID, to which these men belonged.
In the wake of their retreat the Germans laid thousands of mines and booby-traps which caused many deaths and serious injuries among Allied troops.
Thus, anyone wanting to avail themselves of the cover provided by this dugout before it was checked out did so at potentially great risk to themselves.
Note the variety of weaponry carried by these men. L to R: M1 carbine....M1 Thompson SMG...M1 rifle.
(LIFE / Mydans)

 

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In the kind of scene that would be replicated in S.E. Asia a thousand times over some 25 years later, infantrymen of the US 33rd Division slog through the dense and humid Filipino undergrowth on the advance to Baguio, Luzon, April 1945.
(LIFE / Mydans)

 

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Aerial picture of a former German position near Anzio that was overrun and captured by British troops - April 1944
Note pillboxes connected by trenches
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer

 

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US personnel decorating a huge mirror in a club for Thanksgiving day, somewhere in the United Kingdom - November 1943
LIFE Magazine Archives - Hans Wild Photographer

 

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On the deck of USS Sargent Bay a Casablanca-class escort carrier, on 2 June 1945.
She is seen here shortly after returning from Guam for repairs.. She rejoined operations off Okinawa providing invaluable air cover.
TBM Avengers and FM Wildcats are in the background, while two F4U FG-ID Corsairs, of Marine Fighting Squadron 512 with wings unfolded are being readied.
Photo Source Pinterest.

 

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"The American flag being raised over Betio, Tarawa Atoll, 24 Nov 1943" (United States Marine Corps)