Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Close-up of the tail of a B-29, Saipan, 1945
Slide. Close-up of the tail section of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress[tail code Z Square 7]. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern...
Close-up photo of pieces of a Japanese flamethrower to be used for weapons analysis at an New Britain in August 1944
Close-up photo of pieces of a Japanese flamethrower to be used for weapons analysis. "Captured Japanese flame throwers...
Coast Guard and Marines unloading vehicles from landing ship at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, December 26, 1941.
Landing Ship Tanks unloading on shoreline. "File No: C.G. 3071. Pushing in a jeep - A jeep from a Coast Guard-manned...
Coast Guard servicemen duck for cover, probably on a Pacific beach, 1943-1945
Coast Guard servicemen duck for cover behind jungle brush. "2191-35." "U.S. Coast Guard Official Picture, 3rd Naval...
Coast Guardsman who died at his battle station during combat in the Pacific.
"File No: Coast Guard 2330. Battle Station - A twisted lifeless body of a Coast Guardsman who died at his battle...
Coastline of Saipan, 1945
Slide. Cliffs overlooking the ocean. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945
Coastline, Saipan, 1944
Slide. Aerial view of cliffs along a coastline. Saipan. 1944
Coastline, Saipan, 1944
Slide. Aerial view of cliffs along a coastline. Saipan. 1944
Coastline, Saipan, 1945
Slide. Trail leading towards a distant military camp; coastline is in the background. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands...
Coastline, Saipan, 1945
Slide. Coastal cliffs. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1946
Cockpit of the "Hell's Belle," Pacific Islands, 1945
Slide. Captain Richard D. Sullivan piloting the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Hell's Belle" [tail code Z Square 7, serial...
Coconut palms and jeep in New Guinea in 1944
Coconut palms with windshield of a ton truck, jeep, in the lower left of the photo. "Pictorial views of palms against...
Collage of images of Tinian from 1945
Collage of images of Tinian including the Enola Gay, a crashed B-29 superfortress, and landscape views. Handwritten...
Color guard during dedication ceremony after successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll in February 1944
Color guard during dedication ceremony after successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll; newly built American cemetery in...
Color photograph of two members of the Mittlestaedt's combat photograph unit, probably Mittlestaedt himself in 1945
Color photograph of two members of the Mittlestaedt's combat photograph unit, probably Mittlestaedt himself. [1945]
Combat Photo Unit 10 at Leyte in the Philippines in October 1944
"Combat Photo Unit 10, Leyte, PI (Oct 99) R. Sgt Glocker, Lt. Mittelstaedt: F. Cpl Preston, Sgt Honeyman, Pfc Fields, C...
Combat Photo Unit 10 at Leyte in the Philippines in October 1944
"Combat Photo Unit 10, Leyte, PI, R. Sgt Glocker, Lt. Mittelstaedt: F. Cpl Preston, Sgt Honeyman, Pfc Fields, C Stone...
Combat photographer Lt. Charles Shuman stops to rest in the Philippines in 1945
"Combat photographer Lt. Charles Shuman stops to rest. He was wounded twice, on New Georgia in 1943 and in Manila in...
Combat photographers' jeep crushed by tank under fire from enemy anti-tank guns at Cabarvan Hills, Luzon in the Philippines on 25 January 1945
"Combat photographers' jeep crushed by tank under fire from enemy anti-tank guns, Cabarvan Hills, Luzon." 25 January...
Combat scene as seen from inside an LVT on Iwo Jima in February 1945
Combat scene as seen from inside an LVT [Landing Vehicle Tracked]/amphibious tank of Marines moving up dangerous Iwo...
Commander Popkin aboard the USS Rutland in 1945
Commander Popkin aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Comdr. Popkin (former Exec.)." 1945
Commanding view of base unit buildings on a coastline in the Pacific Theater (probably) during WWII
Commanding view of base unit buildings on a coastline. Reverse: "Tex." Pacific Theater (probably). 7 December 1941 - 2...
Commodore Hutton of the USS Rutland in 1945
Commodore Hutton of the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Commodore Hutton." 1945.
Commodore Matthew Perry's American flag aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 September 1945
Scene from the Japanese Surrender Ceremony aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). "The flag Admiral Perry carried to Japan...
Communion being given outdoors in Korea by Father Preston J. Marquette in February 1952.
Communion being given outdoors in Korea by Father Preston J. Marquette in February 1952.
Company F, 151st RCT land on Fort Drum from the tower of an LSI (landing ship Infantry) at Manila in the Philippines on 13 April 1945
"Co. F, 151 RCT land on fort Fort Drum tower of LSI (landing ship infantry)." 13 April 1945
Company street on Sterling Island in 1944
"Company street. Sterling Island 1944."' Sterling Island, Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands. 1944
Complete destruction of island, buildings, and forest on Kwajalein Island in February 1944
Complete destruction of island buildings and forest; Japanese sign post in foreground. 'W-CPA-44-106-CQ. 2/4. Ellner....
Concrete forms and iron reinforcing is all that is left of this Japanese stronghold on Carlson Island, Kwajalein Atoll in January 1944
W-CPA-44-107-AQ. 1/31. Weaver. Concrete forms and iron reinforcing is all that is left of this Jap strong hold, 7th Div...
Consuelo Yule-Singalong was bayoneted by Japanese soldiers when trying to escape her burning house in Manila in the Philippines on 2 March 1945
"Consuelo Yule-Singalong was bayoneted by Jap soldiers when trying to escape her burning house in Manila." 2 March 1945
Convoy of US Army trucks moving along a dirt road in the Pacific Theater, 1945-46
Convoy of US Army 2- ton trucks, CCKWs, moving along dirt road. Pacific Theater. 1945-46
Coronus Strip runway on Sterling Island in 1944
Coronus Strip runway on Sterling Island. '"Runway on Sterling Island."' Sterling Island, Treasury Islands, Solomon...
Corpse of dead Japanese soldier at Attu, Aleutian Islands in June 1943
Corpse of dead Japanese soldier. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. Circa June 1943
Corpse of dead Japanese soldier at Attu, Aleutian Islands in June 1943
Corpse of dead Japanese soldier. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. Circa June 1943

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