Photos WW2 US Forces

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Knocked out M4 Sherman's from 21st Tank Battalion, 10th Armored. They were knocked out and burned when they attempted to take a town defended by the 17th Volksgrenadier Division and a single Tiger tank from Schwere Panzer Abteilung 506. The Tiger holed 5 Shermans that day. The closest Sherman is an M4A3 and the one in the background is an M4A3(76)

 

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An M18 Hellcat from Company B, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion. The 705th was one of the armored units that were inside the perimeter of Bastogne and provided excellent support to the 101st. Two platoons were attached to the 502nd PIR. On Christmas Day, the 115th Kampfgruppe of the 15th Panzer Grenadier Division pierced the Bastogne perimeter via Flamizoulle. The 115th KG [4 battalions infantry, 2 battalions armored field arty, a company of self-propelled guns] was led by 17-18 Panzer IVs.

In the initial engagement these 2 M18s were destroyed, yet in a sharp action the remaining two M18s knocked out 3 Panzer IVs. In the ensuing battle the 502nd, along with a group of Shermans, another platoon of M18s, at least one battery of 105mm arty, the 115th KG was eliminated and the perimeter lines were restored. One battalion of the 115th KG had lost all of their staff and senior officers. The remnants of the battalion retreated under the command of a 19 yr. old lieutenant.

 

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USMC M3 Stuart disabled by a Japanese mine during an ambush at Bougainville on November 14th 1943. In the second image, to the lower left the body of a US Marine that was used as bait for the ambush can be seen. As the M3 Stuart tank moved forward to cover the retrieval of the remains, it struck a mine and was disabled. First Lieutenant Leon A. Stanley was killed by small arms fire as soon as he exited the vehicle, and his body can be seen on the ground just behind the tank

 

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Before a raid. March 1943, Debden airfield.

 

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1st April 1945, The Battle of Okinawa began. 50,000 US casualties with 12,500 dead. Japan 110,000 killed, 7,000–15,000 captured and 40,000–150,000 civilians perished out of an estimated prewar population of 300,000

 

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Soldiers from the U.S. 3rd Armored Division inspect an exploded StuG III Ausf.F assault gun. Over the barrel of the gun hangs a dead German tanker - 1 August, 1944

 

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Bougainville Campaign. 1944. Soldiers of the US Army's 37th Division burn Japanese defenders out of a bunker with a flamethrower

 

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Marines advance across the table land of Iwo Jima

 

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The officers of the USS Pampanito (SS-383) behind her conning tower during commissioning, 6th of November 1943

The crew of the USS Pampanito (SS-383) during her commissioning, 6th of November 1943.

The USS Pampanito (SS-383)’s crew hold their wartime battleflag during decommissioning, 15th of December 1945. From 1943 to 1945, she sank six ships, damaged four more and rescued 73 British & Australian PoWs while conducting six war patrols in the Pacific.

 

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Sherman tank from 781st Tank Battalion that was supporting the 100th Infantry Division during the fighting at Heilbronn on April 12th 1945

 

[uktabber]

Love those sub pics mate, post more please!!!

 

[colin traveller]

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P-40s from the 89th Fighter Squadron, lined up at Nagaghuli airfield, India. The aircraft flew missions against the Japanese in Burma (Myanmar)

 

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The grave of an American soldier near Carentan, France in June of 1944. The sign, written in French, says in “Mort pour la France” which means “Died for France”

 

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837th Bombing Squadron, 487thBombing Group B-17G Flying Fortress 43-37877 in flames after being hit by flak shortly after bomb release over Merseburg on November 30th 1944

43-37877 was crewed by 1st Lieutenant Lloyd W. Kersten, Pilot; 1st Lieutenant Henry E. Gerland, Co-Pilot; 1st Lieutenant James Hyland, Navigator; 1st Lieutenant Warren R. Ritchhart, Bombardier; Technical Sergeant Arnold R. Shegal, Flight Engineer/Gunner; Staff Sergeant Everett S. Morrison, Ball Turret Gunner; Staff Sergeant Joseph M. Miller, Gunner and Staff Sergeant Maurice J. Sullivan, Tail Gunner.

Only Hyland and Ritchhart in the nose managed to bail out and survive to be captured as prisoners of war, the rest of the crew were killed in action. The missing air crew report suggests that some of the crew that lost their lives were wounded by the flak bursts that brought the aircraft down, with Shegal reported to have been fatally injured.

One interesting note mentioned in the report is that the heat from burning fuel tanks would often jam the escape hatches shut.

 

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48th Tank Battalion M4A3(76)W Sherman among the heavy losses suffered by the unit during the fighting for Barr in Alsace on November 28th 1944

 

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Brewster F2A Buffalo failed landing on USS Long Island (CVE-1), July 1942

 

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The grave of an American soldier near Carentan, France in June of 1944. The sign, written in French, says in “Mort pour la France” which means “Died for France”
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...............AND, Emmanuel Macron has forgotten all about it!!! I wonder if his wife could reteach him that lesson?

 

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B-17G Fortresses of the US 15th Air Force trailing condensation trails amid anti-aircraft flak bursts during the bombing run over Graz, Austria, 4 Mar 1945.

 

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Four soldiers of the 104th Infantry Division with a captured German mortar that they used to knock out a German 85mm gun near Duren, Germany