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M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage, also known as the M16 half-track, was a US self-propelled anti-aircraft and infantry support weapon. It was equipped with four .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns on an M45 Quadmount. 2700 were produced by White Motor Company. Normandy, June 9, 1944.
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Marines and an M4 Sherman under mortar fire on Iwo Jima, March 1945.
Refrigerator units keeping blood at desired temperatures at the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945
US Marine who paid the ultimate price during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945
Refrigerator units keeping blood at desired temperatures at the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945
US Marine who paid the ultimate price during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945
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B-24H Liberator “Scrappy” with the 725th Bomb Squadron trails smoke and is losing altitude east of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 22 August 1944
It seems most of the crew bailed out and was captured. The pilot, co-pilot, and left waist gunner were not captured and made it back to base. The last question on the third page (part of a questionnaire filled out by returning crewmen after the war) I uploaded provides these details from another crew member:
I believe the left-waist gunner was Clinton E Cross who was killed a few months later in November of 1944.
A few other crew members I was able to find graves for were Loren Urseth -- Tail Gunner (passed away in 1971) and Jerome B Finegold -- Bombardier (passed away in 2009)
It seems most of the crew bailed out and was captured. The pilot, co-pilot, and left waist gunner were not captured and made it back to base. The last question on the third page (part of a questionnaire filled out by returning crewmen after the war) I uploaded provides these details from another crew member:
This is again shown on the list of crew on the fourth page where the pilot, co-pilot and Cpl Cross (the tail gunner) are listed as "fugitive, has been returned"
I believe the left-waist gunner was Clinton E Cross who was killed a few months later in November of 1944.
A few other crew members I was able to find graves for were Loren Urseth -- Tail Gunner (passed away in 1971) and Jerome B Finegold -- Bombardier (passed away in 2009)
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Men of the 7th Infantry Division, US Army move a 37 mm gun up to the front line during the Battle of Kwajalein which was fought in the Marshall Islands from January 31 - February 3, 1944.
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P-47 Thunderbolts from the 318th Fighter Group taking off from USS Manila Bay (CVE-61).
On 23 June, Manila Bay came under enemy air attack during refueling operations east of Saipan. Four Aichi D3A Val dive bombers attacked her from dead ahead, dropping their bombs which exploded wide to port. As a precautionary and rather unusual move which Raymond A. Spruance later characterized as "commendable initiative", Manila Bay launched four of the P-47 Thunderbolts she was ferrying to fly protective CAP until radar screens were clear of contacts. The Army fighters then flew to Saipan, their intended destination. Manila Bay launched the remaining planes the next day and returned to Eniwetok, arriving on 27 June. After embarking 207 wounded troops, she departed on 1 July, touched Pearl Harbor on the 8th, and reached San Diego on 16 July.
On 23 June, Manila Bay came under enemy air attack during refueling operations east of Saipan. Four Aichi D3A Val dive bombers attacked her from dead ahead, dropping their bombs which exploded wide to port. As a precautionary and rather unusual move which Raymond A. Spruance later characterized as "commendable initiative", Manila Bay launched four of the P-47 Thunderbolts she was ferrying to fly protective CAP until radar screens were clear of contacts. The Army fighters then flew to Saipan, their intended destination. Manila Bay launched the remaining planes the next day and returned to Eniwetok, arriving on 27 June. After embarking 207 wounded troops, she departed on 1 July, touched Pearl Harbor on the 8th, and reached San Diego on 16 July.
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