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American soldiers on Kuhio Beach Walk in Oahu, Hawaii, c.1944
American soldiers on "Kuhio Beach Walk" in Oahu, Hawaii, c.1944
American soldiers pass in review during a memorial service in honor of President Roosevelt in Papua New Guinea in 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Memorial Set. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945. Memorial Service at Camp John's Gully,...
American soldiers posing around the grave of a Japanese pilot at Kwajalein in February 1944
American soldiers posing around grave of Japanese pilot. 'W-CPA-44-120-AC. 2/2. Gurtcheff. Grave of pilot, of Jap float...
American soldiers sit under an American flag newly placed after the invasion of Kwajalein in February 1944
American soldiers sit under American flag newly placed after invasion of Kwajalein. 'W-CPA-44-107-BI. 2/3. Weaver. 'Old...
American soldiers stand at attemtion during a memorial service in honor of President Roosevelt in Papua New Guinea in 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Memorial Set. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945. Memorial Service at Camp John's Gully,...
American soldiers stand at attention during a memorial review in honor of President Roosevelt in Papua New Guinea in 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Set. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945. Memorial Service at Camp John's Gully, New...
American soldiers walk accros a field, probably on Okinawa, 1945
American infantrymen walk across a field toward hills and a distant plume of smoke. Okinawa (probably), 1945.
American soldiers walk past Japanese corpses near their abandoned cannon on Kwajalein Island in February 1944
American soldiers walk past Japanese corpses near their abandoned cannon. 'W-CPA-44-107-DJ. 2/3. Weaver. Jap gun crew...
American soldiers watching Hawaiian entertainers, c.1944
American soldiers watching "Royal Haw'n" [Hawaiian] entertainers, c.1944
American soldiers with tents at a military camp on Guam, 1944-45
Military base with tents as seen from a path down the middle. "Where we live with the rats - Guam." Guam. 1944-45
American tanks and Marines fighting on the front, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
American M4 Sherman tanks, and--in the foreground--one Marine with a .30 caliber machine gun and another with a M1918...
Ammo carriers crossing a bamboo footbridge south of Appari, Luzon in the Philippines on 27 June 1945
Ammo carriers crossing a bamboo footbridge south of Appari, Luzon in the Philippines on 27 June 1945
Ammunition crates are stored beneath a thatched roof at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in August 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Ammunition crates are stored beneath a thatched roof. "Base camp supply depot...
Ammunition crates being kept dry at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in August 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Ammunition crates being kept dry. "Ammunition stacked on matting and rough hewn...
Ammunition, rations, and medical supplies are dropped from C-47 transport planes to the 38th Infantry Division on Bataan in the Philippines on 6 February 1945
"Ammunition, rations, medical supplies dropped from C-47 transport planes to 38th Div on Bataan." 6 February 1945
Amphibious fleet seen through French Ruins in June 1944
483.Photograph. 'File No: 59421 June 1 (not legible), 1944 Amphibious Fleet Seen Through French Ruins Through the...
Amphibious Tractors churning toward the embattled beach head on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945
523.Photograph 'CinCPac 5346 February 22, 1945 Iwo Jima Beach under attack This photo, made from a Coast Guard guide...
An abandoned Japanese truck rests in the middle of a dirt road in 1944
An abandoned Japanese truck rests in the middle of a dirt road "Abandoned enemy trucks are inspected by G.I. mechanics...
An aerial view at an unknown Pacific location during World War II
An aerial view at an unknown Pacific location during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.
An aerial view of smoke escaping from a volcano at New Britain in August 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. An aerial view of smoke escaping from a volcano. "Aerial view of smoke venting...
An aerial view of smoke escaping from a volcano at New Britain in August 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. An aerial view of smoke escaping from a volcano. "Aerial view of smoke venting...
An aerial view of the New Britain coastline at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. An aerial view of New Britain"s coast. "New Britain coastline." Cape Gloucester...
An aerial view over New Guinea during World War II
An aerial view over New Guinea during World War II. "Taken from the air over New Guinea."
An aerial view over New Guinea during World War II
An aerial view over New Guinea during World War II. "Taken from the air over New Guinea."
An African American chief petty officer poses in a village in Japan in the 1940s
An African American chief petty officer poses in a village in Japan in the 1940s.
An African American sailor moving through a muddy canal as part of a Crossing the Line ceremony at sea aboard the U.S.S. Maury on 5 May 1942
An African American sailor moving through a muddy canal as part of a Crossing the Line ceremony at sea aboard the U.S.S...
An African American sailor poses with a woman outside a building, probably in Japan in the 1940s
An African American sailor poses with a woman outside a building, probably in Japan or Korea in the 1940s
An aid station 4 miles behind the front lines in the Cagayan Valley in the Philippines in 1945
"Aid station 4 miles behind the front lines, Cagayan Valley." [1945]
An air view of Yontan airfield at Okinawa after the Yanks arrived in April 1945
604.Photograph 'File Number: 323100 Released: July 19, 1945 In New Hands An air view, looking Southwest, of Yontan...
An Allied soldier stands by a damaged Japanese aircraft at an unknown Pacific location during World War II
An Allied soldier stands by a damaged Japanese aircraft at an unknown Pacific location during World War II. Probably on...
An altar inside of a church in BayBay, Philippines in 1944
"One of two side altars in the Bay-Bay church. All of the interior decorations are generously splashed with color."...
An American flag flies outside the Leyte Provincial Jail in Tacloban, Philippines in 1944
An American flag flies outside the Leyte Provincial Jail; note the capitol building in the background. "Just as we do,...
An American flag flies over a military base camp at New Britain in the 1940s
An American flag flies over a military base camp at New Britain in the 1940s.
An American jeep is parked in front of a Filipino barber shop in the Philippines in 1944
An American jeep is parked in front of a Filipino barber shop. "The towns in the Philippines for the most part are not...
An American LVT in the waters off of Bougainville in November 1943
"File No: W-B-LO-5-54390. Released: November 29, 1943. Attack on Bougainville-- Racing for the shore is a cloud of...
An American military camp with tents along the coastline of Guam, 1944-45
An American military base with tents along coastline. "Guam." Guam. 1944-45

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