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Marines under fire, Tarawa, 1943
Photograph. United States Marines lying in prone position behind a sand dune as bullets fly throw the air. Official...
Members of a U.S. Navy beach battalion dive for protection as a German plane strafes the Normandy shore in June 1944
Members of a U.S. Navy beach battalion dive for protection on Normandy shore in June 1944. "File Number 252841. June 20...
Mortar-damaged landing craft off the coast of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944
Photograph. American landing craft damaged by Japanese mortar fire floating in open water; United States servicemen are...
Navy surgeons operating on a wounded Marine aboard a Coast Guard ship, Enewetak Atoll, 1944
Photograph. Four Navy surgeons operating on a wounded Marine aboard a Coast Guard ship. Caption stamped in blue ink on...
Paratroopers under assault from German artillery in the Netherlands in October 1944
Soldiers under assault from German 88s. "ETO-HQ-44-17200. Poznak. 9 Oct. Signal corps photo. American paratroopers rush...
Servicemen advancing through a village
Photograph. Two American servicemen hiding behind residential building while a third runs to other side of road; a tank...
Servicemen advancing through a village
Photograph. Two American servicemen hiding behind residential building while a third runs to other side of road; a tank...
Servicemen fighting in a city
Photograph. Three servicemen peering over the rubble pile they are hiding behind. Location unknown. No date
Servicemen fighting in a city
Photograph. Three servicemen peering over the rubble pile they are hiding behind. Personal caption on reverse: "Acosta...
Servicemen in prone position
Photograph. Two American servicemen lying in prone position on side of road by a road sign for St. Hubert, Namur, Givet...
Servicemen in prone position, Belgium
Photograph. Two American servicemen lying in prone position on side of road by a road sign for St. Hubert, Namur, Givet...
Servicemen triumphantly holding a Japanese flag, Enewetak Atoll, 1944
Photograph. Marines and Coast Guardsmen triumphantly holding a Japanese flag in a landing craft alongside a ship....
Soldier exhibits helmet with bullet hole at Manila in the Philippines on 15 February 1945
"Soldier exhibits helmet with bullet hole, and bullet which raced around inside instead of killing him." Manila,...
Soldiers take cover from incoming enemy shelling in Niederbronn-Les-Bains on 10 December 1944
Soldiers take cover from incoming enemy shelling. Official caption: "6AG-27699/ETO HQ 44 29121 10 Dec. Credit...US Army...
Squad pinned down by machine gun fire during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 6 July 1944
1332. '6 July 44 Austin. Squad pinned down by M. G. [machine gun] fire, receiving instructions from squad leader during...
Taken during Japanese at on Darwin, Australia in 1942
Taken during a Japanese attack on Darwin, Australia in 1942.
Taken during Japanese at on Darwin, Australia on 29 July 1942
Taken during Japanese at on Darwin, Australia on 29 July 1942. "Darwin during raid July 29, 1942."
The weapons used by a U.S. soldier to force the surrender of a German soldier armed with a machine pistol in Italy on 27 November 1944
518.Photograph. Asian-American '27 Nov 44. 5/MM-44-30638. Fifth Army, Italy. 2nd Lt. Carmen C. Marra, 41 Highland Ave...
Two explosions close to a ship near Papua New Guinea, 1943-1945
Two Coast Guard personnel man an antiaircraft gun as another points above. Two explosions are seen in the water nearby...
Two US Marines shooting from foxhole behind crashed airplane pieces on Iwo Jima in February 1945
Two US Marines shooting from foxhole behind crashed airplane pieces. Official caption:'"Firing at Jap [Japanese]...
Two US Marines shooting from foxhole behind crashed airplane pieces on Iwo Jima in February 1945
Two US Marines shooting from foxhole behind crashed airplane pieces. Official caption:'"Firing at Jap [Japanese]...
U.S. Army engineers clear streets in Inden, Germany on 10 December 1944
U.S. Army engineers clear streets. Note that units have been stricken in the caption. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44...
U.S. Marine planting the American flag at Shuri Castle, Okinawa, Japan, June 1945
Photograph. U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel R. P. Ross, Jr. planting the American flag on a defensive wall. Official...
US and Allied soldiers take cover while under sniper fire, Lyons, France, 1944
Photograph. US and Allied soldiers take cover near a low wall while under sniper fire. Official caption on front: "7/MM...
US and French anti-aircraft units near Sant'Elia a Pianisi, Italy, 1944
Photograph. US and French anti-aircraft units man their weapons in rock-encircled gun emplacements. Official caption on...
US Army armored recovery vehicles retrieving damaged tank near Beggendorf, Germany
Photograph. United States Army armored recovery vehicles (ARVs) retrieving a damaged tank in a tilled field; the ARVs...
US Army solders under Japanese fire in a residential area of Manila, Philippines
Photograph. United States Army soldiers crouching on one side of a city street sidewalk as other soldiers, an artillery...
US Army soldier shooting at a Japanese sniper, Philippines
Photograph. United States Army soldier shooting at a sniper while lying in prone position; a dead soldier is lying on...
US Army soldier taking cover, Saint-Vith, 1945
Photograph. Armed United States Army soldier crouching on one knee in a snow-covered street; smoke is rising in the...
US Army soldiers advancing through Bischwiller, France, 1944
Photograph. United States Army soldiers walking down a city street past the body of a dead American soldier on a...
US Army soldiers exchanging fire with German soldiers across the Rhône, Southern France, 1944
Photograph. United States Army soldiers shooting from behind a low wall toward German forces in a hospital across the...
US Army soldiers following a M10 tank destroyer while under German fire, France, 1944
Photograph. United States Army soldiers following a M10 tank destroyer down a road near a stone wall; one of the...
US Army soldiers raising an American flag while under Japanese fire, Corregidor Island, 1945
Photograph. Two United States Army servicemen climbing up a bare tree trunk in order to raise an American flag....
US Army soldiers storming onto a beach, Luzon, 1945
Photograph. Distant view of United States Army soldiers debarking from landing craft onto a beach during an amphibious...
US Army soldiers taking cover behind a local house, Leyte
Photograph. United States Army soldiers lying in prone at the base of a Nipa house. Official caption on front: "Troops...

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