Photos WW2 US Forces

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Troops with an M3 37mm anti-tank gun whilst on manoeuvres somewhere in Southern England - Early 1943
Interestingly, the breech of the M3 has been fitted with an M1903A2, for use as a sub-calibre training device. The receiver and bolt are just visible.
Each of the men carries a full set of infantry field equipment....rifle-belt, Carlisle dressing pocket, canteen, haversack, meat-can pouch and entrenching tool. Also visible beneath their left arms are their service respirators.
Much of the equipment issued at this time was of WW1 vintage. For example, their canteens feature aluminium screw-tops, a feature of WW1 production canteens.

 

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A Sherman from C Company 70th Tank Battalion "CANNON BALL" fitted with wading gear stuck on Utah Beach after coming ashore during D-Day

 

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Grumman Avenger in the elevator of lead ship of her class USS Long Island (CVE-1), 1942

 

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101st Airborne trooper with a bottle and some food in Carentan, Normandy - June 1944

 

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A US Marine picks off a sniper whilst covering Marines nearby at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Northern Solomon Islands. November 1943

 

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Mountain Troops on Mount Rainier during training in 1942. They are probably with the 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion organized at Fort Lewis, Washington in November 1941, which later became part of the US 10th Mountain Division.

 

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Vought SB2U Vindicator from USS Ranger escorting convoy WS-12 en route to Cape Town, 27-Nov-1941.

 

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Robert S. Johnson, #2 ace in Europe with 27 “victories” exclusively with P-47s.

 

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Trucks are unloaded from a cargo ship into landing craft heading to Rendova - July 1943

 

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Tambor-class submarine USS Trout (SS-202) probably had the most expensive ballast ever carried by a sub. In 1942, the ballast initially was replaced with ammo to resupply forces in the Philippines. After the ammo was unloaded, 20 tons of gold and silver being evacuated from Philippine banks was substituted as the Trout's ballast. Trout delivered the treasure to Pearl Harbor three weeks later, torpedoing a Japanese freighter and patrol boat along the way.

 

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US tanks pass through a wrecked street in Coutances, Normandy in their drive to the sea beyond the town. Coutances, captured by American troops July 29, 1944, is some 18 miles west of St. Lo and was the key to the escape routes for thousands of Germans soldiers hemmed in further north

 

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Advance to Coutances with the US 4th Armored Division through Monthuchon Normandy - July 1944

 

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Advance to Coutances with the US 4th Armored Division through Monthuchon Normandy - July 1944

 

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Personnel in their HBT camouflage uniforms take cover in Le Pont Brocard France - July 1944

 

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USMC M4A2 Sherman tank “CORSAIR” and other vehicles move inland from the beach on Tinian - July 1944

 

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USAAF Sgt William Ewing of the 97th Bomb Group inspects the belt feed of the dual waist .50cal Browning MGs inside his B-17F Flying Fortress “Berlin Sleeper II” - July 25, 1942
William Ewing passed away at the age of 48 from a heart condition on April 17, 1962

 

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94th Infantry Division M2 Halftrack near Mannheim - February, 1945. It appears like the ammunition from the crates of 57-mm rounds for the M1 antitank gun detonated.

 

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USS Onslow (AVP-48), a Barnegat-class seaplane tender, refuels a PBM patrol bomber at sea in December 1944.

 

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Man working on hull of U.S. submarine at Electric Boat Co. Groton Connecticut by Charles Fenno Jacobs in 1943. American workers made a staggering contribution to victory during WWII building 5,777 merchant ships and 1,556 naval vessels.

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Was just reading about Charles Fenno Jacobs on wikipedia and had a search here to see if we had any info on him or his work

Jacobs was born in Waltham, Massachusetts. His Dutch-descended father was a steamfitter. An enfant terrible extraordinaire, he did not graduate from high school and rumor has it he dropped out or was expelled in 8th grade. In spite of this, he got an education on the fly, read a great deal of contemporary literature, met almost everyone of the period worth knowing and was a fine journalistic writer. His older sister Frances reports that he was the red-headed scourge of the neighborhood as a child.

Charles Fenno Jacobs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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GI chats with a French Woman after the Liberation of Rennes France - August 4, 1944