Photos WW2 US Forces

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USS Helena (CL-50) view of the starboard side amidships, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 27 June 1942, following repair of combat damage and an overhaul.

 

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U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division sharing rationed tobacco, chewing-gum, chocolate, tooth powder, etc. Boulogne, France, August 1944.

A U.S. soldier samples a batch of C-Rations during the Louisiana Maneuvers in the fall of 1941

 

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USS Helena (CL 50) At a South Pacific base, between battles, circa 1943

 

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USS Prichett (DD-561) coming alongside USS Essex (CV-9) 1944

 

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'Major Monsoon'. B-26-A in Australia, 1942, 22nd Bomb Group, 33rd Squadron, USAAF.

 

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USS Hancock (CV-19) on July 31, 1944, wearing camouflage 32/3A.

 

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USS Enterprise is hit by a Kamikaze pilot on May, 14, 1945, blowing its forward elevator about 400 feet into the air.

That strike killed 14 and wounded 34 more

The Big E’s burned-out 40 mm flak guns after the strike on May 14, 1945.

 

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Evarts Class Destroyer Escorts
The Evarts-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1942–44. They served in World War II as convoy escorts and anti-submarine warfare ships. They were also known as the GMT or "short hull" DE class, with GMT standing for General Motors Tandem Diesel drive.
DE-302 USS Lyman
DE-44 USS Donaldson
DE-42 USS Reynolds
DE-43 USS Mitchell
DE-303 USS Crowley
DE-301 USS Lake

 

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Crewmen at port side midships 5/25, 20 mm and 40 mm guns aboard USS Phoenix (CL-46) strain to identify a plane flying overhead, Mindoro invasion, 18 December 1944

USS Guam (CB-2) a halftone photo of the ship's commissioning ceremony, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 17 Sept. 1944. Copied from the ship's wartime cruise book, U.S.S. Guam: Her Story, 1944-1945

 

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These infantrymen proudly display the sign taken in Munich, one of the last large cities to fall before the advance of the Seventh United States Army. / Seventh Army, 9th Tank Bn., 20th Arm'd. Div., 30th Inf. Regt., 3rd Inf. Div., XV Corps, Munich, Ger." Munich, Germany. 30 April 1945

 

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This photo, taken on November 26, 1944, in the Philippine Sea, shows a burial at sea ceremony aboard USS Intrepid. The previous day, the ship was attacked by two Japanese kamikaze, killing 69 U.S. Navy sailors. May they rest in eternal peace, and never be forgotten.

 

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USS Indiana (BB-58) in 1942

USS New Jersey (BB-62), Sept 7, 1943

 

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USS Houston (CL-81) showing damage to the ship's starboard quarter, resulting from a Japanese aerial torpedo hit received off Formosa on 16 October 1944. Photographed in a floating drydock at Ulithi Atoll, circa November 1944

 

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Crew No. 1 in front of B-25 #40-2344 on the deck of the USS Hornet before the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan. April 18, 1942.

A B-25 taking off from USS Hornet for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, Japan. April 18, 1942

 

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This day in 1943, while arming B-17 bombers of the US 92nd Bombardment Group at RAF Alconbury, UK, a 500-pound bomb exploded, killing 19 men, destroying 4 B-17s, and damaging 11 others

 

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B-24D Liberator bomber ‘First Sergeant’ in flames just before take-off at RAF Horsham St. Faiths, Norfolk, England, after an accidental discharge of a box of flares, 27 May 1944.

 

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USS Hornet seen moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, following deployment with Task Force 17 to the Battle of the Coral Sea (which she just missed).