Photos WW2 US Forces

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B-24D Liberator "Betsy" from 321st BS, 90th BG, 5th AF on a mission to Wewak, New Guinea, 24 February 1944

 

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Signal Corps Marines on Iwo Jima - February 24, 1945

 

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Soldiers move along the banks of the Rur/Roer river near Jülich Germany - February 1945

 

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Soldier with German prisoner along the banks of the Rur/Roer river near Jülich Germany - February 1945

 

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M3 Lee Medium Tank equipped with the longer 75mm M3 cannon with Company I, 3rd Bn, 13th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division in Tunisia - Feb/Mar 1943

 

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Marines unload equipment & supplies onto the sands of Iwo Jima from landing craft - February 19, 1945

 

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7th Army M35 Prime Mover towing an M1 8” / 203mm gun with the 575th Field Artillery Battalion through Mommenheim, France on the way to the front - February 26, 1945
The M35 was a turretless M10 Tank Destroyer used as an artillery tractor

 

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M3 Lee medium tanks with the short 75mm M2 cannon in Tunisia - Early 1943. Note the counterweights on the end of the 75mm barrels
"I" Company (the slanted "L" tactical marking), 3rd Battalion, 13th Armored Regiment, U.S. 1st Armored Division.

 

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Dazed US Soldiers injured by a hand grenade dropped by a German prisoner (Centre, dead on the ground) they had been escorting along the banks of the Rur/Roer river near Jülich Germany - February 1945
Note the US Soldier on the ground on the left trying to get up…LIFE Magazine Photographer George Silk was injured during this incident

 

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M3 Halftrack & Soldiers of the US 5th Armored Division, 15th Armored Infantry Battalion in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - February 1945

 

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USS LCI(G)-441, alongside USS Nevada (BB-36) recovering the dead (S1/c J.R. Scott of Macon, GA. killed at his GQ station) and wounded crew members after being hit by enemy fire off the invasion beaches of Iwo Jima on 17 February 1945.

 

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A Marine Corps Grumman TBF Avenger gets an overhaul in its revetment on Bougainville by its mechanics. In the foreground is a 2,000 pound bomb waiting to be loaded. 16 February 1944

 

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M5A1 Stuart Tank with the US 3rd Armored Division in Köln / Cologne Germany - March 1945

The same corner now

 

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USS Enterprise gunnery crews practice with their 20mm anti-aircraft guns off Hawaii, May 1942.

 

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Servicemen load paintings and sculptures looted by Hermann Göring, discovered in a cave near Berchtesgaden in May, 1945.

 

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Fourth and Fifth Marine Divisions moving inland, Iwo Jima, 1945

 

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In July of 1943, Sgt. Norwood Dorman, tired & weary from his march to Brolo, Sicily, imitates the pose of an Italian statue dedicated to Italian World War I soldiers.

 

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Troops en route to Oran, Algeria, 15 June 1943 before the invasion of Sicily studying guidebooks for North Africa and otherwise passing the time in their bunks on board a U. S. Navy transport.
The ship may be USS James O'Hara (APA-90). Note that these men are armed with bolt-action Springfield rifles. They are from the 45th Infantry Division.

 

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A convoy of lorries under enemy artillery and mortar fire on the road between Son and Eindhoven, 20 September 1944. In the foreground American paratroopers shelter in a ditch. Operation Market Garden

 

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F4U Corsair, Torokina, Bougainville, December 1943.