Photos WW2 US Forces

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Point Brocard in Normandy, D-Day

 

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US soldiers from the 1st Special Service Force (a joint Canadian–US commando unit known as "The Devil's Brigade") with an M1941 Johnson Light Machine Gun, take a quick rest on the Anzio Beachhead in Italy in April, 1944.

 

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Two GIs with the 104th Infantry Division “Timberwolves” take a break near Stolberg, Germany - November 1944

 

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Marines in training at Montford Point, near Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, 1945.

 

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GI’s from H Co., 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Seventh Army arrive at a rest area in the small French village of Bult on the 11th November 1944

 

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Marines in training at Montford Point, near Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, 1945.
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Who Were the Montford Point Marines? - JSTOR Daily

The first African-American recruits in the Marine Corps trained at Montford Point, eventually ending the military’s longstanding policy of racial segregation.

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