Photos WW2 US Forces

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A group of US soldiers and two dispatch riders of the New Zealand Division on the 5th Army Front in Southern Italy, 10 February 1944.
Photo by George Frederick Kaye

 

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Operation Shoestring - Combat Jump at Tagaytay
Time Over Target: 0815, 03FEB1945. Location: Tagaytay Ridge, Luzon, Philippines Islands. By 1500, the 511th PIR linked up with 187th GIR and 188th GIR and the 11th A/B Div were formed again as a Division.
Story credit: 11th Airborne Division Association Official Facebook site
Photo Credit: Jeremy Holm

 

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This is most likely Torokina and Piva, on Empress Augusta Bay. The Americans only held the land around the airstrips and did not try to take the entire island. Australian and New Zealand forces were still fighting on Bougainville when Japan surrendered.

 

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A crewman on USS Wainwright DD-419 brings coffee to the open bridge during a 2 hour lull between German air attacks on Arctic Convoy PQ-17 - July 4, 1942
LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer

 

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EDIT: BUGGER! Eyesight to the blind and all......Can one of the Mods put the following posts into the US Forces thread please? THX!

USN Submarine S-42 (SS-153) at Dutch Harbor Alaska - 1943
Launched in 1920, this old S-Boat, despite her age, served throughout the Pacific and earned One Battle Star in WW2, scrapped in 1946
LIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer

 

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The “Robbers Roost” tent, on Adak during the Aleutian Islands Campaign - 1943
The skulls are not Japanese, but from Aleut remains found during airfield construction
LIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer

 

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Two sailors throw a baseball to each other on USS Texas BB-35 during North Atlantic Convoy Escort Duty in 1942
The Photographer was on top of turret #5 looking towards the bow
LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer

 

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During WW2 GIs made countless field-mods to their Jeeps to make them more "soldier friendly" using what materials were to hand coupled with the ingenuity of the men charged with doing the job.
This Jeep has had some side panels fitted.
Note the insignia of the 34th Infantry Division and crossed cannons of the artillery applied to the panel....actually the 125th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm) which was attached to the 34th ID.
The print is annotated.
(Image courtesy of the Minnesota Military Museum)

 

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Surplus WW2 US materiel on flatcars at the Port of Philadelphia destined for export as military aid to Chiang Kai-Chek's Chinese Nationalist Formosa ( today's Taiwan) circa 1950.
M5A1 light tanks and M3A1 scout cars figure prominently.
All US serial numbers and markings have been painted over.
Preumably the crates lashed to their engine decks contain replacement engines and/ or spare parts?
(LIFE / Thomas McAvoy)

 

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This image illustrates just how difficult and unpleasant conditions could be on Guadalcanal during the rainy season.
These US Marines are keeping their feet dry by travelling in an International Harvester M-3-4 4x4 truck, numbers of which were widely used by the USMC and USN.
(LIFE / Morse 08-42)

 

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Full Field Display on 20 May 1942 and another picture of GIs pitching tents. These were taken at Fort Jackson, SC

 

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66th Engineer Topographic Company in Italy during WWII.

 

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Members of the Seventh Air Force adjust battle gear on the Rose's Beau in the Gilbert Islands.
The campaign in the Gilbert Islands—a series of 16 coral islands and atolls in the South Pacific—was part of the same siege series as the nearby Marshall Islands, which included an American force of 35,000 troops. It also included 6,000 vehicles, among them fighting planes like Rose's Beau. The Japanese had occupied the Gilbert Islands three days after Pearl Harbor. American troops went in on November 20, 1943. By the 23rd, they had overtaken the island chain.
Painting familiar or fierce images on a war plane's nose was popular in both world wars, and on both the Allied and Axis sides. The sketches of torpedoes lined up near the cockpit window represent bombs dropped on enemy targets.
PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE

 

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"Battalion leaders plan movement of the 311th Medical Battalion collecting station." U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph.