Photos WW2 US Forces

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Soldiers advance in Miniac-Morvan, Brittany France - August 1944

 

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Soldier with M1917A1 helmet and an M1 Garand with M1905 bayonet attached at Fort Sheridan in Illinois - Early 1942

 

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An M4A3 from the 4th Armored Division in a position near a road in Bastogne, January 8th, 1945.

 

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B-26 Marauder bomber 'Flossies Fury' hit directly on the engine mount by a ground-based 88mm flak shell over Toulon, France, 20 Aug 1944. Of the eight crewmen aboard the B-26 Martin Marauder, miraculously, two survived.

 

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M3 Lee knocked out by a German 88mm gun in Sened, Tunisia - 3 February, 1943

 

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Soldiers with the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, pose for a picture in Tourves, Southern France during Operation Dragoon - August 1944

 

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Netherlands:
Hr. Ms. Gelderland (D811) in Rotterdam, 17 Aug 1955

17th Jan 1959

 

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RN:
ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 19, 2010) Duke class (Type 23) frigate HMS Cornwall (F99) during ex Joint Warrior 10-1

 

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Germany:
Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen buried under extensive camouflage netting while she was undergoing repairs at Gotenhafen in 1944. She was in drydock to repair damages that occurred after she had rammed the light cruiser Leipzig on October 15, 1944.

 

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USN:
Omaha class light cruiser USS Marblehead (CL-12) undergoing refit in drydock in June of 1932.

 

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RN:
Officers and ratings take part in a service at sea aboard name ship of her class, battleship HMS Nelson, flagship of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, during manoeuvres off Gibraltar on 19th March 1946

 

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Australia:
Grimsby class sloop HMAS Swan on commissioning, 21 January 1937.

 

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US Soldier takes a break near Château-Thierry France - August 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer WWP-PD

 

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Navy recruits with M1903 Springfield Rifles at Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois - 1940

 

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PFC Leonard Stanfield of the 363rd Infantry Regiment takes off his old boots and tries on a new type of “shoepack”; half leather, half rubber and with felt padding inside, somewhere in Italy - October 7, 1944
This is undoubtedly Leonard Augustus Stanfield, who was born on December 16, 1921 in Bradley County, Arkansas. Leonard enlisted in Little Rock on August 7, 1942, his enlistment record says he was a lumberman at the time.
He survived WW2 and was discharged on September 16, 1945, marrying Charlene Heineke in Warren Arkansas in 1947.
Leonard passed away at the age of 69 in Spalding, Georgia on August 7, 1991, He is buried at Houston National Cemetery in Houston, Texas.

 

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Northrop P-61 Black Widow in flight, 1943-45.

 

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Soldiers of the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, train with an early "Ma Deuce" M2 HB .50 cal Browning MG at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Texas - 1939

 

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Original colour photo of a Jeep and Allied Personnel in Naples Italy - October 1943

 

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F6F Hellcat fighter landing on USS Langley (CVL-27), Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 10 Oct 1944