Photos WW2 US Forces

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US Marine F4U Corsair firing a full load of rockets at Japanese positions on Okinawa
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Love the Corsair, my favorite fighter from World War II

 

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A Marine automatic rifleman rushes past burning house during the Battle of Saipan. June 16, 1944

 

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U.S. Marines on July 21st, 1944, during the Battle of Guam

 

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Defending Dutch Harbor, Alaska during the Japanese air attacks of June 3-4, 1942.

 

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18 April, 1942. Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, Crew No. 1 Crew No. 1 (Plane #40-2344, target Tokyo): 34th Bombardment Squadron, Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, pilot; Lt. Richard E. Cole, copilot; Lt. Henry A. Potter, navigator; SSgt. Fred A. Braemer, bombardier; SSgt. Paul J. Leonard, flight engineer/gunner.

 

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5th Division Marines landing on Iwo Jima photographed from an approaching landing craft. Feb 1945

 

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Battle of Guam. Marines of the 1st Provisional Brigade

 

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30th Division infantrymen, members of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 119th Regiment, bring in wounded comrade on a sled.
They have improvised a litter from a door on which straw has been placed. St Vith sector, Belgium. 13 January, 1945.

 

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March 19, 1944: Douglas A-20G-30-DO Havoc "Tobias the Terrible" serial number 43-9477 of the 89th Bomb Squadron, 3rd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force, pulls out after skip bombing Taiei Maru off Wewak.

Pilot Lieutenant John Soloc's engine was shot out as he came around to attack; losing power, he elected to continue the attack. As he delivered his bomb amidships, his wingtip and propeller struck the ship's mast. The hydraulics were shot out and the bomb bay doors could not be closed. Unable to gain altitude or speed, the A-20 crashed a few miles away. Soloc survived; his gunner, John L. Bradley, went down with the plane.

After seventeen hours in the water, he was spotted by Lieutenant John P. "Jock" Henebry of the 90th Bomb Squadron. A US Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat picked him up. Soloc was given a week's leave and returned to combat; he flew 61 missions by the end of the war.

Taiei Maru, a 3,221 ton freighter operated by the Kuribayashi Shosen Kisen Kaisha (Kuribayashi Competitive Steamship Lines) was part of Wewak convoy Number 21 with Yakumo Maru and auxiliary subchasers Cha-47 and Cha-49. Two Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force sank Yakumo Maru at 0230 Hours by radar; after sunrise nine A-20Gs of the 89th, with over 70 other Allied aircraft, attacked the convoy.

An intercepted message from Imperial Japanese Army General Headquarters on March 28 reported all four ships sunk and notified 8th Area Army on Wewak that their supply convoys were suspended indefinitely because of Allied aerial supremacy. Wewak fell to the Australians on May 10, 1945.

 

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Marine Corps 40mm AA gun at Nukufetau atoll on August 28, 1943

 

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Salvage of a U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina (BuNo 08409) from Patrol Squadron VP-45 at Casco Cove, Attu, Alaska on 27 August 1943. The PBY sank to during take-off in high swells on 23 August

 

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Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa from 54th Sentai with damaged landing gear flies past a formation of North American B-25 Mitchell bombers during a raid on the Kurile Islands. Nov 6, 1944.

 

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M4 Sherman of the 756th Tank Battalion, 85th Infantry Division, 5th Army, passes a knocked out British M4 in Santa Maria Infante, 120 Km in southeast of Rome, Italy. 12 May 1944.

 

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Troops inspect a Japanese Type 95 Ha Go tank with a center mass penetrating hit and main gun stuck in full recoil on Makin Island in December 1943

 

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Marines assault the beach under heavy fire, Battle of Saipan, June 1944

 

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GIs of Company I, 398th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division advance through rain and mist to assault a nearby town in German-held Raon L'Etape area, France. November 17, 1944.

 

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In February of 1945, Marines carry the first American flag up the side of Mount Suribachi while under fire on Iwo Jima.

 

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Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers of Bombing Squadron 9 (VB-9) on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) circa 1943-1944

 

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Commander James H. "Jimmy" Flatley sits in his Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat aboard aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) before the Marcus Island raid on 31 August 1943

 

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Consolidated B-24D Liberator at the NACA Langley Research Center in Virginia. 31 August 1943