Photos WW2 US Forces

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Members of the 101st Airborne Division walk through the streets of Carentan on June 12, 1944. Securing Carentan allowed American forces on Omaha and Utah Beaches to link up

 

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Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat is launched from the light aircraft carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29) on 1 January 1944

 

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Troops with the 101st Airborne Division lug supplies dropped during the Siege of Bastogne, December 1944

 

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U.S. dead wrapped in blankets & strapped to litters at a collection station awaiting removal for burial. San Pietro, Italy. 31 December, 1943.

 

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Brothers Heinz and Frank Schorling of Jersey City, New Jersey manning their machine gun in Venafro, Italy. 31 December 1943

They both survived. Frank passed in 2006 at 87 and Heinz passed in 2015 at 94.

 

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A soldier killed in action being carried down a slope above San Pietro, Italy to a collecting station. 31 December 1943

 

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B-24 Liberator “Kate Smith” of the 98th Bomb Group, is overhauled at an airfield near Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya, circa the summer of 1943.

 

[colin traveller]

Taken from the Gudacanal group page , Posted By Frank Bayer

Photo from the front page of the “Philadelphia Bulletin” - 1942. Chance encounter on the battlefield during the Guadalcanal Campaign, my Pop (on the left) PFC Morton Bayer runs into his Uncle Jake Weinberg (on the right). Two Philly boys have a family reunion in the jungle. My Pop was 20 years old when this photograph was taken. He was part of the First Marine Division 12th Defense Battalion.

 

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Taken on Canal ..The chap is still tryimg to ID this guy ..who posted it on the Gudacanal group

 

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Article in a free mag ...

 

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Soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division using a satchel charge to destroy a Japanese pillbox during the fighting on Kwajalein. 3 February 1944

 

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Landing craft head for beach at Namur island, Kwajalein Atoll, on 1 February 1944

 

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Knocked out Sherman with a 88mm penetration through the lower plate, France, 1944

 

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B-24D Liberator from the 564th Bomb Squadron, 389th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force on a raid over Congac, France. 8 February 1944

 

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B-26 Marauders of the 322nd Bomb Group line up for take off behind a B-26 (serial number 41-34959) nicknamed "Clark's Little Pill". RAF Andrews Field, England, October 1943

 

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Marine fighter pilots in a ready room on Bougainville, before they take off on a bomber escort mission against Rabaul. 12 February 1944

 

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An anti tank crew load their weapon to defend against German assault on newly-won positions in Rapido River area. In background lie German-held Cassino heights and snow capped Mt. Cairo. 11 February 1944

 

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Group view of the 41st Corps of Engineers soldiers, an African American army battalion, standing in formation and holding the American flag in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 1942

 

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Soldiers driving a jeep through a sugar cane field. Camp O'Reilly, Puerto Rico 13 February 1943

 

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The expression of Technical-Sergeant Donald V. Birdsall says it all. OTD in 1944. Riddled by four hundred bullet holes, its waist section gutted by fire and one of its remaining two engines still aflame, Liberator "Bag O' Bolts" managed to return home.