Photos WW2 US Forces

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Loading LSTs at Oro Bay, New Guinea, on December 24, 1943, in preparation for the Cape Gloucester landings two days later. Photographed by Brenner. LSTs present include (from left to right): LST-202, LST-466, LST-468, LST-475, LST-474, and LST-18. Note Marines marching by jeep in foreground.
Catalog #: USMC 69080
Copyright Owner: National Archives

 

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Coast Guardsmen and Marines attend Religious Services on the deck of an LST while en route to Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in late December 1943. The invasion began with landings at Cape Gloucester on 26 December 1943. This LST was Coast Guard manned
Catalog #: 26-G-3060
Copyright Owner: National Archives

 

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USS Phoenix (CL-46) firing her 6/47 guns during the pre-invasion bombardment of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, circa 24-26 December 1943. Photographed from the ship's fantail, looking forward. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-57445

 

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USS LST-67 landing troops through the surf on a Cape Gloucester Beach.
Catalog #: SC 184422
Copyright Owner: National Archives

 

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Marines pull a Jeep ashore from an LST that had to be unloaded before a causeway could be prepared, circa late December 1943. In background is USS LST-67.
Catalog #: USMC 69003
Copyright Owner: National Archives

 

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Marines and Coast Guardmen landing on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, circa 26 December 1943. An LVT-1 leads the way as some men carry stretchers and others push a jeep toward the beach.
Catalog #: 26-G-3046
Copyright Owner: National Archives

 

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Dummy Japanese gun crew. To make Marines think the enemy was strong in one section on Cape Gloucester, the Japanese rigged up this scarecrow gun and crew. Photographed by Howard, 15 January 1944. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/7/9).
Accession #: 127-GW-970-71518

 

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A wounded solder receives blood plasma transfusion in the officer's wardroom of a Coast Guard-manned LST at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. The wardroom was converted to an emergency hospital to accommodate some of casualties.
Courtesy of the naval institute photo collection
Catalog #: NH 95062

 

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Aboard a Coast Guard-manned Landing Ship, Tank (LST), a Navy doctor and Coast Guard pharmacist's mate perform an emergency operation on a wounded man.
Courtesy of Naval Institute Photo Collection
Catalog #: NH 94755

 

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“Birthday Toast”. A toast is drunk in coconut juice on the occasion of the 24th birthday of Sergeant Milan A. Cicak, USMC. The birthday found him and his buddies on a patrol in the Cape Gloucester jungle. That’s Cicak in the center. Left to right: Gunnery Sergeant William E. Eisenhower; Private First Class Dominik D. Garogano. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/7/9).
Accession #: 127-GW-966-77431

 

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Japanese prisoners putting on clean clothes. Photographed by Howard, March 1944. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/7/9).
Accession #: 127-GW-971-89059

 

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Marines with Japanese prisoner on Cape Gloucester, January 1944. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/7/9).
Accession #: 127-GW-971-77192

 

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“Nipper,” a Japanese sentry dog, who voluntarily joined the Marines on Cape Gloucester, poses with Marine Master Technical Sergeant George E. Ausman, who had been a Marine since 1926. Photographed by Sergeant G.F. Koepplinger, 10 February 1944. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/7/9).
Accession #: 127-GW-966-77356

 

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Japanese Armed Small Craft wrecked at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, on January 14, 1944, with two Marines sun bathing on deck. It may have been used to escort Japanese coastal barges.
Catalog #: USMC 71644

 

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Christmas Dinner on Guadalcanal - December 1942
Note the zoomed screenshot of the menu
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer

 

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Lighted MERRY XMAS sign behind 65-ft. Christmas tree lit up by Italian bulbs strung up by Special Services & the 53rd Signal Battalion at the top of Radicosa Pass at 2500 ft. elevation, note direction signs to Bologna as MP stands guard, in the Apennine Mountains Italy - December 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Margaret Bourke-White Photographer

 

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US WACs Dorothy Carpenter, Dorothy Dittwald & Sgt. Crawford decorate their tent for Christmas on the Italian front in the Appennine Mountains - December 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Margaret Bourke-White Photographer

 

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Santa Claus arrives in Guadalcanal with a requisitioned Nissan sedan as his sleigh in December 1942
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer

 

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