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Easter services attended by US servicepeople, Palermo, 1944
Photograph. Christian communion scene with sailors, WACS and soldiers gathered together outside at the edge of the...
Eight US sailors stand together on ship deck
Photograph. Eight US sailors in heavy coats stand together on ship deck. Location unknown. No date
Electrical substation at Camp Polk, Louisiana on 13 May 1941
Electrical substation at Camp Polk, Louisiana on 13 May 1941
Emergency field operation for a ruptured spleen at Camp San Luis Obispo, California at 29 March 1944
1057. '3-29-44. Paik. Members of 2nd Bn. Medical Det., 323rd Inf, 81st Div., performing emergency field operation for a...
Emergency rifle sling applied for fractured femur at Camp San Luis Obispo, California on 30 March 1944
1056. '3-30-44. Paik. L to R: T/5 Frank Hassell, T/3 Cecil Reek, T/5 Ralph Matthews, and patient Pvt. Mason Hughes, all...
Empty mess hall used during training in California on 24 March 1944
701. Interior of empty mess hall. '3-24-44. Thompson. Shot of Mess Hall set-up for Dinner Party celebrating 1 year at...
Engine compartment inside an unidentified Higgins Industries built amphibious vehicle in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1940s
Engine compartment inside unidentified Higgins Industries built amphibious vehicle. New Orleans, Louisiana.-194..
Engineering battalion unrolling wire mats after laying trees and branches over swampy ground atCamp San Luis Obispo, California on 27 March 1944
1059. '3-27-44. Paik. 3rd Pl. Co. C, 306 Eng. Bn. 323rd Inf 81st Div. unrolling wire mats after laying trees and...
Enlisted Personnel of the 81st Divisional Surgeon's office in San Luis Obispo, California on 4 April 1944
1204. '4-4-44. Griggs. Enlisted Personnel of the 81st Divisional Surgeon's office L to R T/4 W.B. Robb, T/4 N M Thomas...
Entire section under Lt. Col. F. S. Ewing, Surgeon General 81st Division in San Luis Obispo, California on 4 April 1944
1205. '4-4-44. Griggs. Entire section under Lt. Col. F. S. Ewing, Surgeon General 81st Div., Camp San Luis Obispo,...
Entire section under Lt. Col. F. S. Ewing, Surgeon General 81st Division in San Luis Obispo, California on 4 April 1944
1206. '4-4-44. Griggs. Entire section under Lt. Col. F. S. Ewing, Surgeon General 81st Div., Camp San Luis Obispo,...
Equipment and ammunition is cleared from a gun emplacement as a squad awaits orders to move forward at Camp Atterbury, Indiana on 6 September 1944
2039. '6 Sept. 44 Barry. Equipment and ammunition is cleared from gun emplacement as squad from 3rd Plat., 822nd Tank...
Equipment needed to fire electric charge at Fort Benning, Georgia
1474. '12 July 44. Farrand. Equipment needed to fire electric charge. Reel wire, electric cap, blasting galavanometer,...
Everything goes by mule in the 71st on mountain maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 24 March 1944
1852. '3-24-44. J. P. Johnson. Everything goes by mule in the 71st L. Div. on Mtn. Man. In HLMR. Here is a pack mule...
Examining paint on rifle barrels in San Luis Obispo, California on 29 March 1944
1169. '3-29-44. Riley. T/5 Joseph Langone, armorer, T/5 Bernard Winter, armorer, examine barrels of rifles Cal 30...
Exhibits of Higgins made military equipment probably in Louisiana in the 1940s
Exhibits of Higgins made military equipment probably in Louisiana1940s.
Exhibits of Higgins-made military equipment in the 1940s in Louisiana
Exhibits of Higgins made military equipment in the 1940s in Louisiana.
Explosion during a demonstration at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma on 15 June 1944
1244. '6-15-44. D. Wallis. Explosion on a make shift pill box is set off by demolition squad of 42nd Rainbow Division...
Explosive damage shown during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 9 October 1944
1682. '9 Oct 44. Johnson. Experiment by TPS Demolition School, Ft Benning, Ga, shows effect of charge from rocket head...
Explosive damage shown during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 9 October 1944
1683. '9 Oct 44. Johnson. Experiment by TPS Demolition School, Ft Benning, Ga, using rocket head without composition C2...
Explosive device used during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 9 October 1944
1676. '9 Oct 44. Johnson. Demolition School, TPS, Ft Benning, Ga experiment using Rocket head HEAT M6A3, fired in...
Explosive device used during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 9 October 1944
1677. '9 Oct 44. Johnson. Demolition School experiment, T.P.S., using Rocket head H.E.A.T. M6A3 at Ft. Benning, Ga....
Explosive device used during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 9 October 1944
1678. '9 Oct 44. Johnson. Demolition School, TPS, Ft Benning, Ga experiment using Rocket head H.E.A.T. M6A3 with and...
Explosive device used during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 9 October 1944
1680. '9 Oct 44. Johnson. Experiment by TPS Demolition School, Ft Benning, Ga, using Rockett head HEAT M6A3. Top plate...
Explosive device used during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 9 October 1944
1681. '9 Oct 44. Johnson. Experiment by TPS Demolition School, Ft Benning, Ga, using rocket head containing composition...
Explosives being wired to a bridge at Fort Benning, Georgia on 11 July 1944
1381. '11 July 44. Hussey. S/Sgt. A.M. Gentry, setting up primer cord charges under open sprandel arch type bridge....
Explosives being wired to a bridge at Fort Benning, Georgia on 11 July 1944
1389. '11 July 44. Hussey. Four time around the block of TNT with primer cord, place block back in kit and 3 other rigs...
Explosives used in demolition training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 12 July 1944
1470. '12 July 44. Hussey. lb. TNT block, 1 lb. nitroctarch, 2 lb. composition C-2 Pentalite, ammonium dynamite,...
Explosives wired to a bridge at Fort Benning, Georgia on 11 July 1944
1383. '11 July 44. Hussey. TNT primer cord hookup against support of open serandel type bridge, Uchee Creek, Alabama....
Exterior view of a supply depot with military vehicles at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 27 March 1944
1956. '3-27-44. Freeney. Interior of tent where barracks bags, field packs, rifles and other personal property of...
Female entertainer singing inside mess hall at San Luis Obispo, California on 24 February 1944
Female entertainer singing inside mess hall. "3-24-44. Thompson. Solo Act at 210 Ord. Co. celebrating 1 year at Camp S....
Ferry returning to the United States on 29 October 1945
US Army ferry vessel "U.S. Army Col. Joseph F. Taylor" and welcoming committee standing on dock upon US return of...
Field kitchen in back of truck at Camp Cooke, California on 28 March 1944
979. Field kitchen in back of truck complete with stoves and canned goods; used during training maneuvers. '3-28-44....
Field kitchen installed during bivouac at Fort Benning on 11 October 1944
1762. '11 Oct 44. Paik. Field kitchen of Co H 2d Bn, 66th Inf Reg installed in the field during bivouac at Fort Benning...
Field mess station at Camp San Luis Obispo, California on 29 March 1944
1053. '3-29-44. Hussey. Mess epicures of directors HQ on maneuvers near Morrow Bay, Calif with 81st div. These men...
Filipino boat off the coast of New Guinea, 1944
Photograph. An empty small sailboat anchored close to a beach; other boats are in the background. Personal caption on...

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