Photos WW2 US Forces

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USS South Dakota (BB-57) entering the Golden Gate, September 1945. Note homeward bound pennant.

 

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USS Missouri (BB-63), the Japanese surrender, 2 Sep 1945

 

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An American soldier of the First Special Service Force (FSSF)—a forefather of modern U.S. special forces—during the elite unit's first combat deployment to take back the Japanese-occupied Kiska, Alaska, USA, c. August 1943

 

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USS New York (BB-34) underway off shore, circa early 1945. She is wearing Camouflage Measure 31a, Design 8B.

Cruisers of Task Force 18 at sea en route to Guadalcanal on Jan 29, 1943. Photographed from CA 45 USS Wichita. CA 29 USS Chicago is in the right center, with CA 28 USS Louisville in the distance. Men on Wichita's deck working on a paravane.

USS Birmingham (CL-62) returning to the United States for repair of damage received during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 24 October 1944.

USS Randolph (CV-15) in the Chesapeake Bay area during her shakedown period, 12 November 1944. She is wearing camouflage Measure 32 Design 17a.

 

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USS Intrepid (CV-11) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) viewed from the USS Yorktown (CV-10) after launching airstrikes south of Kyushu, Japan, March 18, 1945

 

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USS Minneapolis (CA-36) at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, in January 1943, after being fitted with a temporary bow for the voyage back to the United States for permanent repairs.

 

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Boeing B-29-45-MO Superfortress called "Necessary Evil" and adorned with pin-up showing girl in swimsuit standing over destroyed Japanese city. "Necessary Evil" was to carry out a 3rd atomic bomb attack on Japan if needed.
Colonel Paul Tibbets(the guy who dropped the first bomb) had chosen Necessary Evil, commanded by Captain George Marquardt, to lead a third atomic bomb drop against Japan.Secretary of War Stimson stated following the bombing of Nagasaki, "These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another". The primary target was the city of Koromo

 

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USS Denver (CL-58) at sea in 1944. She is painted in Design 3d of the Measure 31-32-33 camouflage system.

 

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US paratroopers of 'Easy Company' 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division together with soldiers (back row) from the Army’s 4th Infantry Division that came from Utah Beach, France, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, 7 June 1944.

 

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M4 Sherman tank machine gunner US Army Corporal Carlton Chapman in his tank near Nancy, France, 5 November 1944.

The battle spread out towards the "big hill," Hill 253. A German HE 88 exploded just above the lead tank of one of Charlie Company's three platoons, commanded by S. Sgt. Harvey Woodard. The tank did not appear to have been hit, but soon came to a stop in the middle of the field as the fighting continued around it. The tank's hatches remained closed and no crew members emerged. Other tank commanders in the platoon attempted repeatedly to contact Woodard by radio and received no answer. Two other tanks were soon disabled by mines and enemy shells: Corp. James Edwards and S. Sgt. Samuel F. Saunders were critically injured and had to be evacuated by medics.

Late that afternoon Baker and Charlie Companies along with the 26th Infantry finally captured Bezange-la-Petite and Hill 253. But the cost had been high for all units involved. The infantry suffered casualties numbering in the hundreds. Members of the 761st had tried to contact Charlie Company's S. Sgt. Harvey Woodard. The ordnance crew went out to check Woodard's tank when the field had cleared. The hatches were locked and had to be cracked open one at a time. Inside the turret, Woodard, gunner Carlton Chapman, and loader L. C. Byrd were sitting in position with their eyes open; all three of the men were dead. When they opened the front two hatches, the team discovered driver Claude Mann and bow gunner Nathaniel Simmons dead as well. There were no visible signs of trauma. The precise cause of death remained a mystery. The men may have sustained internal injuries from the high-explosive blast. It was more likely they died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning.

 

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USS Enterprise (CV-6) and other ships of her screen in action during the Battle of Santa Cruz, 26 October 1942. USS Enterprise (CV-6) is at left, with at least two enemy planes visible overhead. In the right center is USS South Dakota, firing her starboard 5/38 secondary battery, as marked by the bright flash amidships. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Task group 38.3 entering Ulithi following a strike in Phillipine Islands , 24 Dec 1944

USS Siboney (ID-2999), a ship transport in both WW1 and WW2 and finally ended up as hospital ship USAHS Charles A. Stafford

CVE 60 USS Guadalcanal lying alongside the captured U-505, June 4, 1944

 

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In Hanau, the occupiers found one of the many small armaments production facilities in the declining empire, which were set up to protect against air raids, here a workshop of the "Walther" company, in which many finished "Sturmgewehr 44" rifles were captured ...:

 

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SS 226 USS Corvina crewmen on coffee break in torpedo room at New London submarine base, Aug 1943.

Clearing New London, Connecticut, on September 18, 1943, Corvina arrived at Pearl Harbor on October 14. She put out from Pearl Harbor on her maiden war patrol November 4, topped off her fuel tanks at Johnston Island two days later, and was never heard from again.

Her assignment had been a dangerous one: to patrol as closely as possible to the heavily guarded stronghold of Truk and to intercept any Japanese sortie endangering the forthcoming American invasion of the Gilbert Islands. Japanese records report that Japanese submarine I-176 launched three torpedoes at an enemy submarine south of Truk on November 16, claiming two hits which resulted in the explosion of the target. Her loss with her crew of 82 was announced March 14, 1944, making Corvina the only American submarine to be sunk by a Japanese submarine in the entire war.

 

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U.S.S. LST-314, Sicily.

 

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Romania - Queen Elena interested in the condition of Anglo-American air crew wounded while fighting over Romania
and interned in Hospital 415, interior zone of Sinaia (as Prisoners Of War.)

 

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Alaska class heavy cruiser USS Guam CB-2

Destroyers in San Diego, 1941

 

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USS Herrmann (DD-532) lays a smoke screen to cover the escort carriers of Task Force 77.4 during the Battle off Samar, October 25th, 1944

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) burns after kamikaze attacks on May 11, 1945. A Cleveland class cruiser is nearby.

 

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USS Mattole (AO-17) refuels USS Pride (DE-323) by the astern method, 17 August 1944. USS Newell (DE-322) is approaching, at far right. USN photo.

 

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Some pics from the Pacific.

 

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