Photos WW2 US Forces

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USS Hammann DD-412 off of Hawaii in 1940
USS Hammann was sunk by the Japanese Submarine I-168 on June 6, 1942 during the Battle of Midway, while assisting the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-5
B/W & Original Color Picture
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans
Photographer

 

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US Army engineers practise their demolition skills on the hulk of an obsolete M1917 tank...the US-made version of the French Renault FT17, March 1942.
The men still wear the M1917A1 helmet pending the issue if the new M1 which would so change the appearance of the WW2 GI!
(LIFE / Vandivert)

 

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Great photos mate.........love it!!

 

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Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP's) train at Avenger Field West of Sweetwater Texas in 1943
LIFE Magazine Archives - Peter Stackpole Photographer

 

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USS Alabama BB-60 and USS South Dakota BB-57 photographed from HMS Anson (79) during combined fleet exercises - June 24, 1943
IWM - Hampton, J A (Lt) Photographer

 

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US Second Marine Division Cemetery on Saipan - July/August 1944
WARNING - Pictures of fallen soldiers awaiting burial
LIFE Magazine Archives - W. Eugene Smith Photographer

 

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" So, is this where the bullet comes out honey?"
Yet another M1902 3" field gun and caisson /limber displayed in the vicinity of Fort Bragg, N.C.
In the March 1942 issue, LIFE magazine published a photo-essay featuring a typical GI...one Private Teed of the 9th Infantry Division.
This is he on the cover...and with his sweetheart.
(LIFE / Strock

 

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WW2, shot of a P-47 pilot flying though the trouble he has wrought when he hit an ammunition truck.

 

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284th Engineer Combat Battalion
"On 21 October 1944 we put on our packs and assembled all equipment at 2200 hours, so we would be sure to be aboard the midnight train. As usual, the train was late and at 0035 hours 22 October 1944 we left Camp Shanks for New York Harbor. It was in this harbor that we boarded the good ship S.S. Marine Raven and pulled out into the harbor from which we sailed at 1130 hours on this same day. This boarding ship was not such a simple matter as this tends to convey. CPL. Tony Palumbo was impressed with the work of the Red Cross in connection with the service that was rendered to departing soldiers. We all remember trying to struggle through the act of managing a duffle bag, a pack and a bedroll all while trying to dunk a doughnut at the same time. It really was brutal. The gang plank was also a force to be reckoned with and the ascent was maneuvered in several ways. Some of the boys used the drag ‘em type of ascent with duffel bag afar to the rear and gently coaxed along with the strap for a towline. Others took a firm grasp around the bag as a “GI” would hold his best girl, after a year’s absence. No matter what methods were used the desired results were achieved. Once you were aboard ship reaching your quarters was quite a simple matter as it was a case of struggling to the nearest stairs leading to your hold, tossing yourself bodily into the abyss and gravity took care of the rest. Now an assignment to a little bunk that was to be your abode for the long trip over the ocean. The bags were wide, the aisles were narrow and after you reached the correct spot you were hoisted almost bodily and laid or squeezed into a crevice and told to make yourself comfortable. Can you imagine anyone settling down to a comfortable position under such conditions? There were twelve hundred men in a hold that could accommodate three hundred comfortably."

 

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Two Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment during fighting at Wana Ridge during the Battle of Okinawa, May 1945.
Colour by Royston Leonard

 

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Sheet metal workers repair a damaged tail rudder from a B-24. England.

 

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Michigan National Guard- March 1942