Photos WW2 US Forces

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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

 

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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