75 items in this album on 4 pages.
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An United States Coast Guard 'Seahorse' landing craft unloaded troops during an exercise at Algiers, North Africa in preparation for a landing in Italy, Apr 1944 | German troops withdrawing from Rome, Italy by horse-drawn carts, Jun 1944 |
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Fantail of the carrier USS Hancock in the western Pacific, Dec 1944. Note SB2C Helldiver on the after flight deck and the aircraft’s horseshoe tail geometric identifying it as from Bombing Squadron 7 from the Hancock | Dead horses in a German town, 15 Dec 1944; 6 German soldiers (5 of whom were killed) were hitching them to an artillery piece on the previous day when a US shell exploded near them |
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African-American men of USCG Horse Patrol Unit atop their steeds in New Jersey, United States, date unknown; left to right: Seamen 1st Class C. Johnson, Jesse Willis, Joseph Washington, Frank Garcia | Soviet forces marching past a wrecked German Panzer IV tank, 1943-1945; note ZiS-3 gun being towed by horses |
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Captain Rolf Larson of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) atop a horse at the Shweli River bivouac, Kachin, Burma, Jan 1945 | Private First Class Harper of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) atop a horse at the Shweli River bivouac, Kachin, Burma, Jan 1945 |
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Bill Hale, a battery commander of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), riding the horse Sheila, Burma, 5 Jan 1945 | Churchill tank originally of C Squadron of British Army North Irish Horse regiment carrying Italian infantrymen of 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, Ravenna, Italy, 2 Mar 1945 |
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German horses killed by US artillery fire, near Lug, Germany, 1945 | US Marine Private Grady Hogue on a horse, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945 |
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George Patton riding the horse Favory Africa in Sankt Martin, Austria, 22 Aug 1945 | Submarines Dragonet, Menhaden, Mapiro, Seahorse, Sand Lance, Batfish, Capitaine, Pipefish, and Manta at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 28 Sep 1950 |
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Earl Louis Mountbatten atop a horse in the quadrangle of Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom, 1973 | |
75 items in this album on 4 pages.