Photos WW2 US Forces

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The caption reads "A wrecked 105mm gun stands by the side of a road near Manhay, Belgium, where troops of the 83rd U.S. Infantry Division are advancing against the northern flank of the Nazi wedge. Manhay was wrested from enemy control December 28, 1944, by Allied forces driving toward the German St. Vith-Laroche supply road which was severed in several places by January 8, 1945, when 15 miles of the vital highway was under U.S. and British control. The Germans were thus left with only one major supply highway into their salient." (U.S. Signal Corps)

 

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Consolidated B-24D Liberator 41-23941 “Little Buck” over the Aleutians - 1943

 

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December 26, 1943. New Britain, Papua New Guinea. USN light cruiser USS Phoenix conducts 4-hour long shelling of the Japanese positions located at the Cape Gloucester.

 

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B-17 Flying Fortress, flying through exploding flak over Merseburg, Germany

 

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Engineer of the 184th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division, Walter Kuhn, is clearing the road with the SCR-625 mine detector with knocked out Type 95 Ha-Guo in the background on the island of Leyte, Philippines. 24th Dec 1944

 

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Capt. James T. Kolb of Company A, 147th Infantry, assisted by Sgt. Keogh, uses a flamethrower against dug-in Japanese troops on Iwo Jima, April 20, 1945.

 

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Troops of U.S. 90th Infantry Division aboard LCI(L)-326 en route to Utah Beach. 6 June 1944

 

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A stunning colour image taken by Captain Edward F. Wilson from the pilot's seat of his B-24 Liberator serving with the 853rd BS, 491st BG in 1944

 

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USS Wahoo Giving food, water, and chart to starving Malayans fleeing the Japanese. Jan 1943; three fishermen had already died before being discovered by Wahoo.

 

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A tank-infantry team from the U.S. 4th Marines advances slowly under enemy fire through the dense scrub growth on Orote Peninsula, Guam (July 1944)

 

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OTD 1944, American troops land on Guam. Of the 18,000 Japanese soldiers dug in on the island, all but 400 will be killed in 20 days of heavy fighting.

 

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Sherman M4A2 on Betio, Tarawa Atoll, named “Commando” took multiple hits to the side

 

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Douglas A-20G-30-DO Havoc "Tobias the Terrible" serial number 43-9477 of the 89th Bomb Squadron, 3rd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force, pulls out after skip bombing Taiei Maru off Wewak on 19 March 1944

Pilot Lieutenant John Soloc's engine was shot out as he came around to attack; losing power, he elected to continue the attack. As he delivered his bomb amidships, his wingtip and propeller struck the ship's mast. The hydraulics were shot out and the bomb bay doors could not be closed. Unable to gain altitude or speed, the A-20 crashed a few miles away. Soloc survived; his gunner, John L. Bradley, went down with the plane. After seventeen hours in the water, he was spotted by Lieutenant John P. "Jock" Henebry of the 90th Bomb Squadron. A US Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat picked him up. Soloc was given a week's leave and returned to combat; he flew 61 missions by the end of the war.

After 5 years with the Air Force, he spent 15 years with the Reserves before retiring as a Major. He passed away in 2011, aged 90

 

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A rifleman of the 70th Division batters down a house door in a sniper search in the town of Wingen, France. German troops infiltrated American lines after the town was first captured, then they were driven out a second time. 17 January 1945.

 

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26 January 1945. Near the Luxembourg-German border. An M8 Greyhound of U.S. 80th Infantry Division.

 

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After crossing the Danube River, a task force of the US Seventh Army encountered resistance from a group of German OCS students dug into positions on the slopes of the Alps, Austria, 1 May 1945. The Germans surrendered to the Americans, with raised hands.

 

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Members of the 101st Airborne Div. Next to an 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 guard one of the outposts of Bastogne where their division was besieged for ten days. 26 December 1944.

 

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11th Airborne Division meets up with 37th Infantry Division. Manila, Philippine Islands, February 1945

 

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American MP cleans a G-41 rifle somewhere in France, 1944. (A great souvenir!)

 

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A M4A3E8 “Easy Eight” Sherman Tank of the US 10th Armored Division. Rosswalden, Germany. 1945.