Photos WW2 US Forces

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Marine by a destroyed bunker on Iwo Jima - March 1945

 

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1st Army Combat Engineers repairing the Ludendorff Bridge four hours before it collapsed. 17 March 1945

 

[Mark Sman]

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This focuses on production, maintenance, and sustainment for the US Navy in the PTO during WWII. Runs near 2 hours.

A better documentary on this sort of thing than you would see from a "professional" production company.

Also, Sal is everywhere.

 

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Marines on Saipan with an M4A2 Sherman - June 1944

 

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Marines cautiously advance amongst the wreckage on Saipan - June/July 1944

 

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75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage w/ trailer followed by half-tracks with the 106th Cavalry Regiment in La Haye-du-Puits, Normandy - July 1944

 

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Knocked out M4 Shermans of 8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, near the village of Marcey-les-Grèves, Normandy - August 1944

 

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Vehicles & soldiers with the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion in Miniac-Morvan, Brittany, France - August 1944
The 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion was part of the “Cavalry Charge” that swept through Brittany.

 

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The “Little Boy” atomic bomb in its pit prior to being loaded into the bomb bay of B-29 “Enola Gay” on Tinian - August 5, 1945

“Little Boy” being loaded into the bomb bay of B-29 “Enola Gay” at Tinian - August 5, 1945

“Little Boy” is fit checked after being loaded into the bomb bay