Photos WW2 US Forces

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Grumman F6F-3 Hellcats in tricolor camouflage, sea blue, intermediate blue, and insignia white. Jan 1943

 

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44th Inf Division soldiers Pfc. Thomas Tully, of Ohio, and Pvt. George Bates, of North Carolina, examine a German Flammpanzer 38(t) that was abandoned by German forces outside Houffalize, France. January 13, 1945.

 

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OTD in 1944. A B-17 Flying Fortress called "Mon Tete Rouge II"

Failed to return, 4th Dec 44

 

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John F. Kennedy aboard PT-109 in the South Pacific 1943

 

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B-29 Superfortress “Sheer Madness- Abortin’ Norton and His Malfunction Ten”

 

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This day in 1943, American bombers accidentally bombed a residential area in Rotterdam close to shipyards and docks. At least 326 citizens were killed. The bombing remained relatively undiscussed until the 1990s, it is known as the "Forgotten Bombardment"

 

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USAAF armorers replenish the 0.50cal and 75 mm ammo in a North American B-25H Mitchell

 

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American GI wisely moving a souvenir remotely. I'd be all about a longer string, though.

I'm not sure what these structures are.

 

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Those are probably cold weather mobile work platforms for ground crew to service the engines in winter

 

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FM-2 Wildcat D-12. It has just crashed into the barrier on USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83). The date is August 27, 1944. The pilot was LT(JG) Bob Hambley of VC-79. He survived the crash

 

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M10 tank destroyer in an ambush position covers main road of Schiebenhardt (Germany) December30, 1944.

 

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M10, knocked out by German forces in Aprilia (Italy). March 1944

 

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9 Apr 1943: Lt Walter Haas in the cockpit of a F2A Buffalo, Miami, Florida, United States, 9 Apr 1943.

 

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U.S. Army Nurses from Bataan and Corregidor, freed after three years imprisonment in Santo Tomas Interment Compound, climb into trucks as they leave Manila on their way home to the U.S. in February, 1945.

 

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A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress flying past the Bagana volcano cone on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, on November 11, 1942.

 

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Boeing B-17G Wee-Willie 42-31333 LG-W, 323th squadron of 91st bombing group, over Kranenburg, Germany, after port wing blown off by flak. Only the pilot, Lieutenant Robert E. Fuller, survived. He was witnessed deploying his chute after being blown free of the cockpit. Unfortunately, he was listed KIA, having failed to have been located and seemingly not taken prisoner. 10th April 1945

 

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B-17G Flying Fortresses over Europe, January 1945

 

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P-51 Mustangs of the 375th FS, 8th Air Force, mid-1944.

 

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Some of the first assault troops to hit the Omaha beachhead in Normandy, France take cover behind enemy obstacles to fire on German forces as others follow the first tanks plunging through the water towards the German-held shore, June 6, 1944.

 

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Marines clearing a bunker with an M2-2 flame thrower at Iwo Jima, February 1945