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Ground crew of the 91st Bomb Group paint the nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed “Nine-O-Nine” (OR-R, serial number 42-31909) at Bassingbourn England, 1944. She completed 140 combat missions during the war, setting the Eighth Air Force record for most missions without loss.
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This night in 1943, American and British airborne invasion on the island of Sicily, Italy. Although successful, many gliders were released too early and crashed into the sea, drowning some 250 men. It was the US 82nd Airborne Division's first combat jump
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WWII. USA. 14 July 1945. The US Navy Martin JRM Mars cargo/transport flying boat 'Hawaii Mars' is inspected by men of the Naval Training School at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore, Maryland.
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JRM-1 #76819 first flown on 21 July 1945 and delivered to the USN. It sank on 5 August 1945 in the Chesapeake Bay and was disposed as scrap.
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Thousands of Jeeps and military trailers that were invaluable assets in winning the war, left to rot on Okinawa. Photographed by a Life Magazine photographer in 1949.
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45th Infantry Division Personnel in a Dodge WC51 truck in the Valmontone/Velletri Italy area - June 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer
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USS Wainwright DD-419 fires on German HE-111 torpedo bombers attacking Arctic Convoy PQ-17 on July 4, 1942
Afterwards, when Convoy PQ-17 was ordered to scatter due to a supposed German surface ship threat that included the Battleship Tirpitz, the convoy lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships to German aircraft and U-Boat attacks
LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer
Afterwards, when Convoy PQ-17 was ordered to scatter due to a supposed German surface ship threat that included the Battleship Tirpitz, the convoy lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships to German aircraft and U-Boat attacks
LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer
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A member of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion “Carlson's Raiders" demonstrates how to properly use a captured Japanese Type 89 Grenade Launcher on Guadalcanal - December 1942
Incorrectly nicknamed the “knee mortar", serious injuries occurred when some Allied soldiers attempted to fire the weapon by bracing the curved baseplate against their legs
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer
Incorrectly nicknamed the “knee mortar", serious injuries occurred when some Allied soldiers attempted to fire the weapon by bracing the curved baseplate against their legs
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer
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Christmas 1943 on Guadalcanal...complete with Santa!
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