Photos WW2 US Forces

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89th Division soldiers crouch low in their crowded assault boat, to escape enemy fire as they cross the Rhine River at Oberwesel, Germany, 26 March 1945.

 

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P-51D 'My Girl' takes off from Iwo Jima on a B-29 escort mission, 1945.

 

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Marines cross the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal on a raft ferry in November, 1942

USMC wounded are evacuated during the Koli Point action on Guadalcanal in November, 1942

 

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Infantry of the U.S. 83rd Infantry Division accompanied by M4 Shermans during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944.

 

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An M4A1(76)W from the 3rd Armored Division with atypical applique armour during the drive to Paderborn, 1945

 

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Troops of the 2d Battalion, 165th Infantry, struggle to shore on Yellow Beach on Butaritari (Makin) Island, Gilbert Islands, following a naval gunfire bombardment. 20 November 1943

 

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Adm. Halsey eating chow with enlisted sailors on USS New Jersey thanksgiving 1944

 

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Marines take time out for a cigarette, while mopping up the enemy on Peleliu Island. Photograph released 13 October 1944

 

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On March 3rd 1945, Pfc. Abraham Mirmelstein held a Torah scroll as Capt. Manuel Poliakoff and Cpl. Martin Willen conducted jewish religious services in Schloss Rheydt, the former residence of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, in Münchengladbach, Germany.

 

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Pacific Theater. 11 August 1942. Three Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns in the left wing of a USMC F4U-1 Corsair.

 

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Combat engineers of the 1st Armored Division of the US Army sweeping mine detectors to examine the territory near destroyed German Pz.Kpfw. IV tanks in Anzio, Italy - May, 1944

 

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751st Tank Battalion M4 Sherman burned out and missing its right track near Cisterna in Italy in early 1944

 

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M4A3 75mm knocked out by an 88mm in Irsch, Germany - February 1945

The Sherman is likely one of three tanks of the 10th Armored Division's Command Company B knocked out in Irsch on February 25th 1945:
By mid afternoon the lead tank platoon of CCB had emerged from the woods onto the main highway and was headed east into the village of Irsch. Despite a roadblock in the center of the village, Irsch appeared deserted. Two of the platoon's five tanks had passed the roadblock when a Tiger tank, a ground-mount 88-mm. gun, and two Panzerfausts, all concealed behind nearby buildings, opened fire. In rapid succession they knocked out the last three U.S. tanks.

 

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Some days after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th 1941 a USN crew recovers a downed Aichi D3A dive bomber

 

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M2A3 light tanks on a wet Army Day in Washington in 1939

 

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Lieutenant Gerald Ford (later 38th President of USA), the assistant navigation officer uses a sextant aboard USS Monterey (CVL-26), 1944

 

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Crewmen aboard the USS Monterey (CVL-26) bringing an F6F to the flight deck on elevator, June 1944

 

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753rd Tank Battalion M4A1 Sherman sporting a tight group, one hull and three turret penetrations after being knocked out in combat with elements of the 11th Panzer Division near Grane in France at the end of August 1944

 

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Marine inspects a LVT (A)-4 "Lady Luck" that rammed a Japanese 120mm Type 10 dual purpose anti-aircraft / coastal defence gun - Peleliu Island; September, 1944

 

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Knocked out M4A3 (76) Sherman. Battle of the Bulge. Winter of 1944-45