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The 113th Engineer Battalion at Fort Drum in the Philippines on 13 April 1945
The 113th Engineer Battalion at Fort Drum in the Philippines. "600 pounds TNT and 3200 gallons of oil were pumped into...
The 113th Engineer Battalion at Fort Drum in the Philippines on 13 April 1945
"113th Eng Bn pumped 3200 gallons of oil and gasoline into Fort Drum to blow up Japs [Japanese] inside." 13 April 1945
The 127th Combat Engineer Battalion built a pontoon bridge across the Pasig River which refugees use to escape fighting in Manila in the Philippines in 1945
"127th Combat Engrs built pontoon bridge across Pasig River which refugees use to escape fighting in Manila." [1945]
The 3rd Battalion 158th RCT move along a Batangas coastal road in the Philippines on 15 March 1945
"3rd Bn 158th RTC infantrymen move along Batangas coastal road." 15 March 1945
The 49th Fighter Group's Zamboogie Theatre in the Pacific during World War II
The 49th Fighter Group's Zamboogie Theatre in the Pacific during World War II. The structure was theater-made from...
The 504th Bombardment Group's club on Tinian in 1945
Probably the officer's club for members of the 504th Bombardment Group on Tinian. "504th club." Probably late 1945
The 504th Bombardment Group's club on Tinian in 1945
Probably the officer's club for members of the 504th Bombardment Group on Tinian. "Patio and balcony of 504th club....
The 504th Bombardment Group's club on Tinian in 1945
Probably the officer's club for members of the 504th Bombardment Group on Tinian. "504th club." Probably late 1945
The 5th Cavalry Regiment moves in on Japanese entrenched in Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila on 16 February 1945
"5th Cav Regt move in on Japs entrenched in Rizal Memorial Stadium." 16 February 1945
The 5th Marine Division places steel matting over the soft sands of Iwo Jima beach on February 1945
556.Photograph. 'CinCPac 5371 27 February 1945 'Rush Job' While foxholes and gun emplacements are hurriedly camouflaged...
The 8th Cavalry enters Santo Tomas, Luzon in the Philippines in 1945
"8th Cav enters Santo Tomas, Luzon to mop up." [1945]
The American flag flies above the rear deck of an aircraft carrier probably in the Pacific on 23 November 1943
The American flag flies above the rear deck of an aircraft carrier with the Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger onboard and a plane...
The Army's Americal Division crouch on the sandy shore of the east coast of Cebu on 26 March 1945
390.Photograph. 'File Number 48797 April 7, 1945 Operation Cebu Caught in a combat 'tableaux' by the camera, troops of...
The battleship USS Pennsylvania being repaired in a floating dry dock near Guam, September 1945 (probably)
Aerial view of the battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) being repaired in a Large Auxiliary Repair Dock near Guam. "...
The bodies of dead Japanese soldiers lie on the ground next to marching American soldiers, Pacific Theater, 1943-45
The bodies of dead Japanese in the foreground with American soldiers in the background securing a position occupied by...
The bodies of dead Japanese soldiers on Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
The bodies of dead Japanese soldiers lie on the ground. They are still wearing their uniforms. There is a cannon in the...
The bodies of dead US Marines on a beach on Tarawa, 1943
The bodies of dead US Marines, surrounded by debris, lie on a beach. "Marine Dead at Tarawa beach." Tarawa, Gilbert...
The body of a dead Japanese soldier lies at the entrance of a pillbox on Kwajalein Atoll in 1944
The body of a dead Japanese soldier lies at the entrance of a pillbox. "Jap blown from pillbox in Ebeve Island,...
The body of a dead Japanese soldier lies on the ground near a foxhole, Pacific Theater, 1943-1945
The body of a dead Japanese soldier lies on the ground near a foxhole. Pacific Theater. 1943-1945
The bridge of the USS Rutland off of Saipan on 14 February 1945
Sailors on the bridge of the USS Rutland; probably off of Saipan on 14 February 1945. From donor's notes: "The Bridge,...
The Burns Philip building and warehouses on the waterfront in Papua New Guinea in 1944
The Burns Philip building and warehouses on the waterfront. "View from one of the wharves showing the Burns-Philp...
The Burns Philip house in Papua New Guinea in 1944
The Burns Philip house. "Commercial enterprises in Moresby, are few. The largest and best known is the house of Burns-...
The Capitol Building of the Province of Leyte in Tacloban, Philippines in 1944
The Capitol Building of the Province of Leyte. "First, the Philippines has its government, represented here by the...
The Chief of Surgery of the 251st Station Hospital double checks the medical instruments available to him and his staff on 15 August 1944 at Cape Gloucester, New Britain
The Chief of Surgery of the 251st Station Hospital double checks the medical instruments available to him and his staff...
The Courtyard of the Moana Hotel Looking Toward Royal Hawaiian Hotel, c.1944
"From the Courtyard of the Moana Hotel Looking Toward Royal Hawaiian Hotel" c.1944
The cruiser USS Omaha and the destroyer USS Jouett sink the Nazi blockade runner Rio Grande in the South Atlantic in January 1944
432. Photograph. 'File No: OOR-44853 February 22, 1944 U. S. gunfire sinks scuttled Nazi blockade runner-- Towering...
The debris of destroyed Japanese airplanes on Iwo Jima, 1945-46
Japanese airplane graveyard. "Wrecked Jap planes - Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46
The dentist aboard the USS Rutland in 1945
The dentist, a patient and his equipment aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "The ship's dentist." 1945
The end of a Mechanized Landing Craft on a beach with LSTs in the distance at an unknown location in the 1940s
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. The end of a Landing Craft Mechanized on a beach, a dock and LSTs in the...
The Enola Gay in 1945
The nose of the Enola Gay, probably on a Tinian airfield in 1945

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