Italian Campaign. Apennine Mountains. 20 February 1945. A German medic, helped by soldiers of the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, carry a wounded soldier to an American aid station after the Battle for Mount Belvedere.
Members of Major (later Gen) Edward Thomas' HQ detachment, 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment, First Special Service Force dash from behind a burning German tank for a point further ahead as the fight to take Rome progressed. An American tank, part of supporting armor can be seen on right while beyond others troops keep close to the building. 5 June 1944
A member of the First Special Service Force with a BAR outside of Rome - June 4, 1944
Members of the 101st Airborne Division walk through the streets of Carentan on June 12, 1944. Securing Carentan allowed American forces on Omaha and Utah Beaches to link up
The first YP-61 Black Widow night fighter to arrive at Orlando Army Air Base, November 1943 is met by a 349th Night Fighter Squadron Douglas P-70 "Black Magic".
Lt James Hamilton Clark and his groundcrew of P-51B Mustang “The Mighty Midget” of the 363rd Fighter Group with an impressive mission and kill tally, ca 1944
He married a woman named Marjorie, and her nickname was 'Midge' so he gave her nickname to his Mustang, hence the name The Mighty Midget
This P-51B had crashed on August 13 next to the village of St Martin des Champs, not far from Falaise, and killing the pilot 2nd Lt Chester H Rice....Lt Clark had not flown on that day.
Pvt Terry Moore of F Company, 184th Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, leans against an embankment, a cigarette in his mouth and his Browning automatic rifle (BAR) in his hands, Okinawa, May 1945.
11th Regiment, 5th Division US Private Charles Preston, of Nicholasville, Kentucky, brushes snow from a M1917 Browning machine gun mounted on his jeep. His unit was moving in against the German counterattack in the Ardennes during the 'Battle of the Bulge' which was then barely a week old, in the frontline of Luxemburg. 21 Dec 1944
In July of 1944, pilots wait to be briefed on an aircraft carrier (likely USS Ranger) while playing with the ship’s mascot. Shortly after this picture was taken, they were flying over the Atlantic on a mission
B-17G 'Miss Donna Mae II' was tragically struck down due to bombs released from an allied aircraft. While engaged in a mission, 'Miss Donna Mae II' lost its formation and moved underneath another B-17, 'Trudy' with serial 42-97791, belonging to the 332nd Bomb Squadron. A 1,000-pound bomb released from 'Trudy' hit 'Miss Donna Mae II,' severing its left horizontal stabilizer and causing the aircraft to enter an uncontrollable spin. The aircraft lost a wing around 13,000 feet. The incident resulted in the loss of all 11 crew members. The plane crashed in Oderbergerstrasse, Berlin on the 19th of May, 1944.
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