Photos WW2 US Forces

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A fine colour portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., standing alongside his P-47 in Sicily, circa 1944.
Lt-Col. Davis was a former West-Pointer and a "Tuskegee Airman" who rose to command the 332nd Fighter Group...the famed "Red Tails".
He was also the son of Brigadier-General Benjamin O. Davis Sr., the first African-American to be appointed to that rank in the US Army.
Post-war, Lt-Col Davis remained in the USAF, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1965.
However, under President Bill Clinton's administration, he was awarded his fourth star in recognition of his distiguished service to his country.
Lt. Col Davies wears a Type A-11 flying helmet with Type B-8 goggles and a Type A-14 oxygen mask. His summer flying suit is as AN-S-31A.
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PBM Martin Mariner.

 

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The distinctive gull-wings identify this flying boat as a Martin PBM-3D Mariner, seen here on its concrete ramp at a USN coastal base, c.1943.
These long-range aircraft were used for anti-submarine patrols.
Original colour image.
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Japanese bomb hits the flight deck of USS Enterprise. 24 August 1942.
The film from his camera was saved, but this unique and famous picture cost the photographer his life.
Photographed by PhoM3/c Robert Frederick Read, USNR. U. S. Navy Photo.

 

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Pearl Harbour 1941

 

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LCI’s unload troops on Red Beach at Morotai Island. September 1944.
Landing troops on island after island in the Pacific was not a new maneuver, but the Navy developed more efficient techniques and effectively overpowered Japanese resistance at sea as well as on shore.
Photographed by a USS Santa Fe photographer. U. S. Navy Photo.

 

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A US Sherman Tank M4A1 75 rolls out of a Landing Ship Tank (LST). Sicily, July 1943.

 

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Training of a camouflage class artist in New York City .
The year is 1943.

 

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V-E Day, Times Square, 8th of May 1945.

 

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USS Texas BB-35 at anchor in Hvalfjörður, Iceland - February 11, 1942
Picture taken from HMS Fury (H76)
IWM - Ware, C J (Lt) Photographer

 

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• Jan 31, 2021

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merican tank crew listen to Bernard Herzog (US POW) who was just liberated from the camp of Santo Tomas, 1944
An American tank crew stands beside Bernard Herzog – an American citizen who lived in the Philippines – after his liberation from the Santo Tomas internment camp run by the Japanese in the old University of Santo Tomas campus, Manila. As you can see, he is severely malnourished as Herzog most likely exclusively ate refined white rice, as was the case with many other camps.
His lower legs are swollen due to beriberi, an illness which is caused by the lacking of vitamin B-1 (thiamine) in the diet, and his legs are most likely swollen from the illness. Beriberi was common in South East Asia due to the diets being predominantly of white rice, which has the husk of the seed removed to extend the time before it becomes inedible – except the husk contains the essential vitamin B-1.
In addition, notice the bucket of baby formula that Herzog is carrying – this is most likely the safest way and easiest way for him to get valuable nutrients that his body hasn’t been able to receive for years. It was known that some prisoners of war, if they went from their prison diet straight to normal dieting after release, they sometimes burst into cardiac arrest.
People in the image from left to right: Private 1st Class Arnold Senstrom, Sergeant Frank Duer, Private 1st Class Joseph Lewandowski, Bernard Herzog, Technician 5th Grade Bill Tksack, Technician 5th Grade Clifton Griffin, Private 1st Class John Rogen.

 

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Weary Marines filled canteens with water while the fighting raged on during the battle to wrest control of Saipan. June/July 1944.
W. Eugene Smith The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

 

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"Lt. P. A. Romano (right) and a group of American Soldiers inspect some captured German equipment at Finale, Sicily". July 29th 1943.

 

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A Vought F4U Corsair fighter ditched offshore Majuro airfield in the Marshall islands.

 

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Many of you who’ve seen the Pacific will know who this is. Gunny Haney, as he was referred to in the series, is receiving the silver star for gallantry in the battle of Cape Gloucester. Later on In Peleliu, Elmo Haney would rally his marines who were bogged down on the beach head and put them back into the fight. He was what every Marine during the war would consider one of “The Old Breed” having served in France with the Marine Corps during the First World War. He was described in Eugene Sledge’s memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, as being “everywhere at once, correcting mistakes and helping out”. He retired from the Marine Corps a Master Gunnery Sergeant in 1947 and passed away in 1979.

 

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Iwo Jima, February 1945. A DUKW, also known as "The Duck", loaded with supplies, leaves an LST.