Photos WW2 US Forces

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• Nov 24, 2020

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"So...whaddya doin' after the war honey?"
Flight Nurse, 2nd Lt. Julia Corinne Riley and USAAF Navigator Lt. Milton V. Ashlay get close up and personal aboard a C-47 medevac flight taking wounded Allied personnel for treatment at base hospitals in the rear.
North African theatre, April 1943.
Note that both wear A2 leather flight jackets.
2nd Lt Riley's is a loose fit as it is a small man's jacket. I don't believe there was a dedicated female issue version.
(LIFE / Elisofon)

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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USS Bowfin
Happy Thanksgiving!

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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B-24D 41-11613 "The Blue Streak" of 514th BS, 376th BG, 9th AF.
The aircraft was a veteran of the first high level Ploesti mission in 1942, but not part of the 1943 low level raid. The A/C went on to survive 110 missions with the 376th bomb group and was sent home for a war bond tour. Left to right: Sgt Willard Tressler; Maj Ralph P. Thompson; Lt Thomas W. McGrain; Sgt Ivan Schwartz; Sgt Alfred Runyan; Sgt James E. Milne; Lt Jose R. Felix, Jr.; Sgt Richard E. Weizenegger; Sgt Henry Magaram; Lt Waino Hakkinen, and Sgt Arthur Weil.

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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Soldiers from the 158th Regimental Combat Team, 40th Infantry Division land on Noemfoor Island, Dutch New Guinea in order to secure and defend the Namber Airstrip. July 2, 1944.

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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WW2 A Douglas A-20G Havoc night fighter of the 417th Night Fighter Squadron does a little daylight low flying down in the weeds Image thanks to http://www.vintagewings.ca

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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Formation of B24 somewhere over Germany

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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Despite receiving a bomb hit which severed the left tail stabilizer, the pilot of this 392 BG B24 was able to fly it back to England. A landing was impossible so the crew succesfully bailed out.

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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B24 of 98th BG received a direct flak hit over Wiener Neustadt on 2.November 1943. Surviving crewmembers bailed out.

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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B24 of 460BG over Germany hit by flak. See the crew member trying to escape through the forward watch before the upper turret in the third pic.

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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Doomed B24 Liberators, seen from a German fighter gun camera.

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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Pvt. A. B. Duncan (left) and Cpl. A. R. Perry, both Nashville marines, stand with their rifles after being relieved from front line action during the battle of Iwo Jima.
Private Duncan, husband of Mrs. Mary Ella Midgett Duncan of 332 Vivelle Street, participated in the taking of Hill 382 on Iwo Jima with the Fourth Marine Division recently. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Duncan, 308 Boscoble Heights, the former employee of the Union Ice Cream Company is father of a daughter, Linda Sue, aged two and a half.
Corporal Perry, 19, is the son of Mrs. A. R. Perry, 2108 Gladstone Avenue. He recently was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action with a marine rifle platoon during the invasion of Saipan. Perry is a veteran of the Marshall Islands and Tinian invasions. He was employed in Detroit, Mich., prior to entering the service in March 1943.

 

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• Nov 24, 2020

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Rescue boats being built at Peterson's Boat Yard in Nyack, NY on The Hudson River. The Boat Yard is still in existence.

 

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• Nov 25, 2020

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1) M3 Lee U.S.A. # W-309490, D Company, 2/13 Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division. Souk el Arba, Tunisia, 23 Nov 1942.
2) F Company, 2nd Battalion, 13th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division. Medjez el Bab, Tunisia. Nov 1942

 

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• Nov 25, 2020

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• Nov 25, 2020

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Colonel Doolittle and his crews just before the air raid over japan . April 1942

 

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• Nov 26, 2020

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First Marine Air Wing Thanksgiving Day Dinner on Nov. 24, 1943

 

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• Nov 28, 2020

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Before the breakout, life within the Anzio beach-head was tough and frequently downright dangerous!
However, this evidently did not prevent the American Red Cross from setting up camp in order to provide the troops with coffee and doughnuts!
(LIFE / George Silk, 04-1944)

 

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• Nov 28, 2020

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M31TRV somewhere in Italy - May 1944
The M31 Tank Recovery Vehicle was based on the M3 Lee chassis, with a dummy turret & dummy 75mm gun, a 60,000 lb winch was also installed
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer

 

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US mortarmen of the 45th "Thunderbird" Division in action in the Anzio beachead, April 1944.
Their mortar is an M1 81mm...a derivative of the French Brandt mortar.
(LIFE / Silk)