Photos WW2 US Forces

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Men of Merrill’s Marauders cross a river with their pack horses on a recently constructed bridge. Burma, 1944.

 

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330th Bomb Group. Roy Westberg, standing 2nd from the right, was killed in action after being shot down in Combat near Truk Island in April of 1944.

 

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P-38 Lightning Lockheed P38 'Arkansas Traveler' at Clastres Airfield, France in October 1944

 

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B-24 of 786th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

 

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Japanese-held Wake Island under attack by U.S. carrier-based TBM Avengers in November 1943

B-29s dropping bombs over Japan, July/August 1945

 

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B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 398th Bombardment Group approaching their bombing run on Neumünster, Germany, 16 April1945

 

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Douglas SBD “Dauntless” scout/dive bombers heading for a raid on Japanese-held Wake Island. 5 Oct 1943

 

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The Battle of Saipan, 1944. Native islanders had been hiding to escape the fighting between US and Japanese forces. The sole living person among the hundreds of corpses in one cave was this baby who almost smothered before soldiers found him and rushed him to hospital.

 

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A U.S. Marine rests behind a cart on a rubble-strewn street during the battle to take Saipan from occupying Japanese forces. Battle of Saipan, 1944

 

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Marines followed tanks against the last Japanese defenders with machine gunners providing cover. Three men alongside the photographer were hit just before he took the picture. The Battle of Saipan, 1944

 

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B-17G from 379th Bomb Group, June 1944

A squadron of the 91st BG enroute to the target of the day over Oberfaffenhofen, Germany on March 18, 1944,

 

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Delivered W Palm Beach 8/1/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Biskra 28/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Naples 1/8/43 with Bob Rast, Alvarado, Ponemone, Bigelow, Dibble, Shea, Anderson, Nichols, Smith, Mathews; flak hit knocked off wing, crashed target area.

 

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Infantrymen in action during the fighting in Tunisia, February 1943. Image by Life Magazine photographer Eliot Elisofon.

 

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February 14, 1945, near Aboncourt, France, Sergeant Elvin Harley (Kalamazoo, Michigan) being kissed by a little French girl. This proud member of the 3rd Armored Division survived the rest of the war and returned to Michigan.

 

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Marines in the PTO.

 

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Combat medic at work, Battle for Saipan, 1944

 

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Omaha Beach, Dog White sector, D-Day + 1.

 

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January 1945, Belgium, 331th regiment of the 83rd ID. A company C doughboy flinches at the sound of an exploding shell.
The 331th regiment of the 83rd ID was in Belgium until the 24th of February, according to the After Action Reports. They were practicing all kinds of tactics in Berneau/ Belgium, like attacks in open terrain, attacks on tanks and attacks on villages.
Look again at the Jack Rose picture: The company C doughboy flinches slightly for….a smoke grenade? Are we looking at a soldier who is practising an assault situation?

http://www.battle-of-the-bulge.be/jack-w-rose/

 

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P-47 "Arkansas Traveler" Of The 353Rd Fighter Group loaded with bombs in preparation for D-Day.