Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Philippine stores at a village along the roadside in Tolosa, Leyte on 4 July 1945
Philippine laundry and stores at a village along the roadside. One U.S. soldier sits in the shade near a clothesline....
Phone wire is carried across a river on a raft near Appari, Ballesteros in the Philippines in 1945
"Phone wire carried across river on raft near Appari, Luzon." [1945]
Photo officers talk with priests of Holy Ghost Church at Manila in the Philippines on 4 February 1945
"Photo officers talk with priests of Holy Ghost Church of Manila." 4 February 1945
Photograph of 5th Marine Division cemetery with image of Marines invading beaches in sky on Iwo Jima in 1945
Photograph of 5th Marine Division cemetery with image of Marines invading beaches in sky. Official caption:'"Montage of...
Photograph of map of roads and airfields on Guam, 1945-46
Photograph of map, "Island of Guam." Compiled by 41st Photo Reconnaissance photographs. Includes 1st, 2nd and 3rd class...
Photograph. Aerial views of the Aleutian Islands, most likely concentrating on Attu and its harbors in 1943
Aerial views of the Aleutian Islands, most likely concentrating on Attu and its harbors in 1943.
Photographer aboard the USS Rutland in 1945
Photographer aboard the USS Rutland; camera hanging around his neck. From donor's notes: "Your photographer." 1945
Photographer aboard the USS Rutland in 1945
Photographer aboard the USS Rutland; camera hanging around his neck. From donor's notes: "Your photographer." 1945
Pieces of lumber are loaded into the back of a CCKW during construction at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in August 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Pieces of lumber are loaded into the back of a CCKW during construction on Cape...
Pier #7 Manila south port area with sunken ship on 6 March 1945
"Pier #7 Manila south port area with sunken ship." 6 March 1945
Pier #7, Manila south port area with sunken ship on 6 March 1945
"Pier #7, Manila south port area with sunken ship." 6 March 1945
Pile of sacks, Saipan, 1945
Slide. Large pile of full cloth sacks piled outside of a hut. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945
Piles of mutilated body parts of Japanese soldiers at Attu, Aleutian Islands in June 1943
Piles of mutilated body parts of Japanese soldiers. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. Circa June 1943
Pilot boat from Kahului Harbor moving past Puu KuKui Mountain, c.1944
"Puu KuKui [Mountain] Elev.[elevation] 5,788 Ft [feet] (Foreground) Pilot boat from Kahului Harbor" c.1944
Ping pong game at the Tinian Town Club on Tinian in November 1945
U.S. servicemen playing ping pong over table as other servicemen and American Red Cross women look on; probably inside...
Piper cubs parked beside a thatched roof building at New Britain in September 1944
Piper cubs parked beside a thatched roof building. "L-4...
Playing the guitar at the Tinian Town Club on Tinian in November 1945
U.S. servicemen and American Red Cross women listen to a man playing the guitar; a drum and a tamborine are also...
Plaza de Espana, located in central Agana, Guam in 1945
Plaza de Espana, located in central Agana, Guam in 1945. "Governor's Palace Courtyard." Guam
Police station in Japan circa September 1945
Police station in Japan; automobile in foreground. From donor's notes: "Police station, Hiro, Japan." Circa September...
Pond with floating rafts, soldiers, buildings and hills, Alaska c.1943.
Pond with floating rafts, soldiers, one female, buildings; hills in background, probably Alaska c.1943.
Port of Yokohama in September 1945
Port of Yokohama, Japan; LCVP [Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel] in foreground. From donor's notes: "Yokohama, thru...
Portrait of a Marine returning from an assault on Enewetak Atoll, February 1944
A Marine returning to a Coast Guard-manned assault transport after partaking in the assault on Eniwetok Atoll. (NARA #...
Portrait of an unidentified African American sergeant sitting for a portrait while on liberty at an unidentified location in the 1940s
Portrait of an unidentified African American sergeant sitting for a portrait while on liberty in the 1940s. He wears a...
Portrait of Nan Holliday
Photograph, portrait. Nan Holliday posing against a car in a military uniform. Personal caption on reverse: "Nan...
Portrait of Nan Holliday, 1945
Photograph, portrait. Nan Holliday studio portrait. Postwar personal caption on reverse: "T. D. Picture of Nan Holliday...
Portrait of Papua New Guinea native in 1944
Portrait of Papua New Guinea native. "This native is typical of those to be found in the vicinity of Moresby, whose...
Portrait of three Papua New Guinea natives in 1944
Portrait of three Papua New Guinea natives. "Three visitors to camp, McNulty, McGinnis and O'Houlihan. The natives, on...
Possible Japanese cave on Iwo Jima, 1945-46
Possibly Japanese cave reinforced with Marsden matting. "cave. Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46
Possibly a repurposed Japanese Kawasaki Ki-100
Possibly a repurposed Japanese Kawasaki Ki-100. "A Nip plane we fixed up." Probably on New Guinea.
Pottery vendors in San Fernando, Pampango, Luzon in the Philippines in 1945
"Pottery vendors in San Fernando, Pampango, Luzon." [1945]
POW camp near Dagupan in the Philippines on 16 March 1945
Japanese prisoner of war camp near Dagupan in the Philippines on 16 March 1945. "Dagupan POW camp." 16 March 1945
Pre-landing bombardment of Iwo Jima on 17 February 1945
519.Photograph. 'File Number: 306211 Released: April 12, 1945 Iwo Jima Dead in the water Resembling a giant black whale...
Preparing airplane "Laddie" for lift by wrecker truck, Alaska c. 1943.
Seven soldiers preparing airplane "Laddie" for lift by wrecker truck, probably Alaska c. 1943.
Presentation of the American flag during a military ceremony in the Pacific Theater, 1945-46
Presentation of American flag and military ceremony on unknown military base. Pacific Theater. 1945-46
Prewar and postwar Manila scene of Pier Seven
Mass produced photograph with two images featuring Pier Seven [7] in Manila, Philippine Islands, both pre and postwar...
Prewar and postwar Manila scene of the Walled City/Intramuros
Mass produced photograph with two images featuring the Walled City/Intramuros in Manila, Philippine Islands, both pre...

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