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Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the USS LCS(L)(3)-99. Cap. [Oscar Landon] Miles is dressed as royal chaplain. "Royal...
Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the USS LCS(L)(3)-99. "Kissing royal baby's stomach." Pacific Ocean. 1943
Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the USS LCS(L)(3)-99. "Santa Fe, N.M. [New Mexico], Ens. V.T. Lyon before Royal Judge...
Neptunus Rex, Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the USS Rutland; pollywog is being dumped from coffin into pool on deck...
Officers in costumes during a Neptunus Rex, Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "The...
Royal barber in costume holding sissors during a Neptunus Rex, Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the USS Rutland; a...
Royal Judges during the Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the USS Rutland in 1945; All men wear robes and wigs, one...
Crossing the Line ceremony participants including the court with King Neptune and his Queen Amphitrite aboard the US...
American light cruiser's scout plane, an SO3 Curtiss Seamew, leaving the catapult during shakedown. "2098 - 135 photos...
"2098 - 135 photos - 2098. For Release: PM papers. January 31, 1944. Shakedown: The task of quickly developing fighting...
Curtiss Seamew leaving the catapult of an American light cruiser during shakedown; antiaircraft guns in foreground. "...
Curtiss Seamew leaving the catapult of an American light cruiser during shakedown. "2098 - 135 photos - 2098. For...
Dagupan (Luzon) POW camp housed 300 Japanese prisoners near Dagupan in the Philippines. "Dagupan (Luzon) POW camp...
Damage from Japanese attack in Darwin, Australia in 1942.
Damage to a M114 155 mm howitzer that malfunctioned, killing its own crew of American soldiers. 'W-CPA-44-107-CP. 2/4...
"Damage to legislative building in Manila." February 1945
"Damage to legislative building in Manila." February 1945
Slide. Damaged Boeing B-29 Superfortress being towed on a runway. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945
Slide. Damaged Boeing B-29 Superfortress being towed on a runway. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945
Slide. Damaged cement bunker with exposed rebar. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945
Damaged Japanese Yokosuka D4Y "Judy" dive bomber in a field. "Captured enemy warplanes at Talesea Airport, New Britain...
LVTs [Landing Vehicle Tracked]/amphibious tanks wrecked and buried in sand along Iwo coastline; Marines move supplies...
Bullet holes in machine gun barrels leaning on supply boxes; bullets exited sides when barrels got too hot. '"Machine...
Damaged USS California (BB-44). Official caption: "USS California (BB-44). US Navy Photo 100-14." From U.S. Navy Photos...
Sand covered Japanese bodies in foxhole in foreground; view to Iwo Jima harbor and dozens of US landing craft behind....
"Dead Jap [Japanese] soldier in Intramurals (walled city, Manila). 23 February 1945
"Dead Jap soldier lies near front steps of Philippine General Hospital." 15 February 1945
Dead Japanese soldiers and their damaged equipment on beach. 'W-CPA-44-106-DP. 2/4 Ellner. Jap dead and their equipment...
Dead Japanese soldiers strewn about road near Japanese antitank gun. 'W-CPA-44-108-AR. 2/1. Cordray. Jap soldiers...
Dead Japanese corpse surrounded by destruction. 'W-CPA-44-106-CP. 2/4. Ellner. Japs caught by fire that the troop...
A deceased Japanese soldier lies face down in the water on the edge of a beach. Pacific Islands, 1942-1945.
A Marine poses near deceased Japanese soldiers beside their beached landing craft. Other landing craft in the distance...
Deceased Japanese soldiers lie in a water filled bomb crater with American soldiers nearby, some of whom are holding...
Numerous deceased Japanese soldiers lie scattered in a field near a coastline. Note hill in the distance and possible...

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