Photos WW2 US Forces

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A burning M4A1(76)W Sherman tank knocked out by German artillery at Bergerhausen, Kerpen, Germany - 1 March, 1945

 

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Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters warm up on the flight deck of USS Cowpens. Marshall Islands, 1944.

 

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Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) during the Marcus Island raid on 31 August 1943: Lt. Comdr. James H. "Jimmy" Flatley, Commander of Air Group 5 (CAG-5), sits in his Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat (code "00"), painted in a tricolor-scheme (certainly an "in the field" application) before takeoff. An Aviation Boatswain Mate stands ready to remove chock from wheels. A non-specular insignia white diagonal stripe on the tail and the green propeller hub signified CAG-5 aboard the Yorktown.

 

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M3 GMC leaves a landing ship on the shore of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, January 1943.

 

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Infantrymen of Co. "I" deep in the mangrove forests patiently waiting for the word to advance in pursuit of retreating Japanese forces. Solomon Islands, Southwest Pacific. 1943

 

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OTD in 1944, men of the US 504th PIR, 82nd Airborne, cross the Waal river. 48 paratroopers were killed during the crossing, others successfully captured the north end of the Nijmegen road bridge.

 

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Ground crew from the 553rd BS, 386th BG hand painting invasion stripes prior to D-Day.

 

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P-51A Mustangs at the North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, California plant, 1942

 

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4 April 1943. USAAF B-24D Liberator 'Lady be Good' disappeared with its 9 crew on its first WW2 combat mission. The wreck was discovered 440 mi inland in the Libyan Desert on 9 November 1958. The crew died of thirst trying to walk out.

 

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F6F-3 Hellcat flown by Butch O'Hare with over 200 bullet holes from combat was brought to the production plant to show the workers what they are building

 

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Marine Raiders conduct PT on the deck of their troop transport submarine on the way to conduct the raid on Makin Island, a Japanese seaplane base in August of 1942

 

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That's not a Seaplane Tender mate, that's the deck of a pre-war USN submarine, either the USS Argonaut or the USS Nautilus.

"The Marines were transported there by U.S. Navy Narwahl-class submarines SS-166 USS Argonaut and SS-168 USS Nautilus."

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That's not a Seaplane Tender mate, that's the deck of a pre-war USN submarine, either the USS Argonaut or the USS Nautilus.

"The Marines were transported there by U.S. Navy Narwahl-class submarines SS-166 USS Argonaut and SS-168 USS Nautilus."

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Hahaha, no mate, as described "troop transport submarine" and on the way to attack a seaplane base

 

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Oh S**t, yep you're right I read it wrong--too fast...........FORGIVE ME oh great one!! ?

 

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Massive explosion of a Japanese torpedo storage site, on Namur Island, on February 1st, 1943, during the Battle of Kwajalein: when a U.S. Marine demolition team threw a satchel charge of high explosives into a Japanese ammo bunker, the explosion killed 20 Marines and wounded dozens.

 

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Marines burn out a Japanese pillbox on Iwo Jima in February 1945

 

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Martin PBM Mariner patrol bomber flying boats in Okinawa, 1945

 

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The final tragic moments of B-17 "Wee Willie" going down on its 128th mission. Nine crew KIA and 1 POW. April 8, 1945

 

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Gun camera still from a Focke Wulf Fw 190 showing cannot impacts to the cockpit of a B-24 Liberator in a head-on pass

 

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Men and vehicles of the 80th Infantry Division, Third US Army, load into a landing craft prior to crossing the Rhine River, Germany, 29 March 1945