Photos WW2 US Forces

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LST-1 landing troops onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943.

 

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A-20s doing a low flyby at the Marston Experimental Strip in the Fall of 1941, some 2 months prior to Pearl Harbor.
Image thanks, Bob Merritt & www.vintagewings .ca

 

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During a tropical rainstorm, General A.A. Vandegrift (left), U.S. Marine commander on Guadalcanal, confers with Colonel Merritt A. “Red Mike” Edson, whose 1st Marine Raider Battalion played a key role in the defense of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. 1942.

 

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Pre war training on Hawai.

 

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That's what the Japanese hoped to find: Battle Ship Row in 1940.

 

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Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.

 

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Consolidated PBY Catalina photographed from USS President Jackson APA-18 during the Rendova Landings - July 1943
LIFE Magazine Archives - William C Shrout Photographer

 

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Apra Harbor Guam as USS Balao SS-285 arrives to be tied off alongside other submarines - April 8, 1945
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer

 

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B-17C #40-2049 from the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron. The aircraft was piloted by 1st Lt Robert H. Richards & it crash landed at Bellows Army Airfield on Oahu’s windward coast during the attack on December 7, 1941.

 

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American pilot and Commander of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (or WAFS, which was later absorbed into the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP) Nancy Harkness Love (1914 - 1976) carries her helmet, goggles, and parachute as she walks across the tarmac of an unidentified airfield in England, September 1942. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)