Photos WW2 US Forces

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On board USS Lexington (CV-16) off Kwajalein. Marine gun captain points out Japanese “Kate” torpedo bomber moving in to launch torpedo. Dec 1944

 

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F4F-3 Wildcat undergoing maintenance in USS Enterprise's hangar deck, Oct 28, 1941

 

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US Soldier examining an M1903 from a pile of M1903 Springfield Rifles and M1918 BARs in Papua New Guinea - 1943
Its assumed these are battlefield pick ups dropped by casualties and collected after combat.

 

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A Sherman tank is covered by a machine gun nest while crossing a snow-covered field near Bastogne. January 3, 1945

 

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Three GIs inspect a Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B (King Tiger, or Königstiger) heavy tank, disabled in the Harz Mountains of north-central Germany near the town of Schierke. April 29, 1945.

 

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A US MP inspects a German 88mm FlaK 36/37 anti-aircraft gun mounted for direct fire on a street in Cologne. The gun's barrel is marked with 11 destroyed vehicles. Spent cartridges are neatly stacked in the background. The inscription on the wall reads: Gaststätte — restaurant, canteen, café. 1945

 

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Cherbourg 1944. Then and now

 

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Helldiver aircraft over USS Hornet, South China Sea, mid-Jan 1945

 

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Two of the eighteen Allied POWs rescued by Balao-class submarine USS Queenfish (SS-393) from the sunken Japanese cargo ship SS Rakuyo Maru on September 18, 1944. 2,100 British and Australian POWs were embarked in the transports with 127 picked up by US submarines

 

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