Photos WW2 US Forces

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Harold Alvis O’Dell at about 29 yrs of age at Ft. Wayne, Ind for training before going to New York then shipping out to England for D-Day. He was a Section Forman on the MK&T railroad in Oklahoma before joining the army. In the army he was a member of the 729th Railway Operating Battalion Company A. The battalion was nicknamed the “Soxos”. They restored and operated over 600 miles of railway in England prior to D-Day. After the invasion they operated the railways in France and all the way through the war to Germany.

 

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US 1st Armored Division Sherman Tanks in the Lanuvio Italy area - May 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer

 

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SFC Lavone Durant and CPL Marvel Joos.
The U.S. Army Military Police Corps Regimental Museum, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri,received a collection of artifacts and archival materials from a former female soldier who served as an MP at the St. Louis Union Station from 9 February 1945-1946.
Marvel L. Reid (nee Joos), originally from North Dakota, entered the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on 18 February 1943 in Fort Des Moines, IA. After completing her WAAC basic training, she remained at Fort Des Moines as a shipping and receiving checker until she sought reassignment in early 1945, which led to her service as an MP in St. Louis.
The WAAC formally became a part of the U.S. Army in July of 1943 as the Women's Army Corps (WAC); Cpl. Joos entered Army service on 1 September 1943. She was discharged as a staff sergeant on 3 June 1946.

 

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*American *airfield in the Aleutians, September 1943.
*Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina *and *Lockheed Ventura PV-1 *twin-engine patrol bombers in blue scheme both carrying both the mid-1943 style national insignia.

 

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Coronado PB2Y Bureau # 7099 sitting on the tarmac at Shanghai Lunghwa Airport 1945.
#7099 is now fully restored and in the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola.

 

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Papakura in the south to Mechanics Bay, Western Springs, and various parks on the Auckland isthmus. A total of 29,500 could be accommodated. Two other places also hosted Americans. North of Auckland, a number of farm camps were set up in the Warkworth area; Solway Park in Masterton could house 2400 Marines.

 

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Pre-war or early war US Army personnel.

 

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Naptime on a P-38.

 

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E Company 34th Engineers taken at Schofield Barracks just days before December 7th 1941

 

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Pre- or early war training in the CONUS.

 

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Guam September 1945, Mariana Islands.
A Japanese prisoner of war bowing to camp commander, lieutenant Harold F. Gannon,

 

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B-17G Fortress “Lost Angel” belly-landed at RAF Kimbolton after being damaged over Magdeburg, Germany, Sep 28, 1944. The crew had unbolted and dropped the ball turret to keep it from breaking the airframe’s back.
United States National Archives

 

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"Miss Burma" from the 47th BG.... 250 missions!

 

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Iwo Jima was the equivalent of a mini D-Day in the amount of effort it took to take the island from the Japanese. No mercy on either side was given and very few of the 21,000 defenders surrendered.
All for a little pork chop shaped spit of sand.

 

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US submarines and tender based at Fremantle, Australia during WW2

 

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Caravan of vehicles at Fort Leonard Wood, MO- February 1942

 

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Nose art, a way to bring fun and beauty during hard times of war.
Here on The Ink Squirts, a B-25 of the 41st Bomb Group by Jack Kellogg. He was the official artist of the 98th Seabees in the Pacific.

 

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Putting faces and names to one of the most iconic series of photos from WW II. 1st Lt. James Knarr and Staff Sgt. Charles Reichley KIA when their A-20 was shot down by AA fire in the Pacific.

 

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Fort Leonard Wood, MO - February 1942