2,411 items in this album on 121 pages.
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A Marine Corps F4U Corsair flying over Marine ground troops during a close air ground support training exercise, 1945. Note M1 Rocket Launcher (or ‘Bazooka’) and M2 Flame Thrower. | Commander of USAAF 78th Fighter Squadron Major James B. Tapp checking the fuses on his HVAR air-to-surface rockets mounted to his P-51D VLR Mustang ‘Margaret-V’ 44-73407 at South Field, Iwo Jima, spring 1945. |
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F4U Corsair at the barrier wires after landing aboard USS Bennington around Okinawa in the Western Pacific, Apr 1945. | German soldier explaining the use of Panzerfaust to Berlin civilians, Germany, spring 1945 |
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German Volkssturm troops with a MG 34 machine gun in a ruined building in Silesia, Germany (now Poland), Apr 1945 | MTech Sgt Lloyd M Staggs cleans the bore of a 75mm cannon mounted in the nose of a PBJ-1 Mitchell of Marine Squadron VMB-613, Kwajalein, April 1945. Note also the six Browning M2 .50 cal machine guns. |
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Soviet troops fighting in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, Apr 1945 | US Civil Affairs Staging Area soldiers with M1 Carbines on a firing range, spring 1945 |
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US Navy Lt Robert S Selby shoots the sun with a sextant inside one of the 40mm gun tubs aboard seaplane tender USS Castle Rock, Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Apr 1945. Note 40mm ammunition racks and PBM Mariners beyond. | Vought F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-451 ‘Blue Devils’ with its wings folded aboard USS Bunker Hill, south of Japan, spring 1945. Note the armorers readying the HVAR rockets and the rocket rack at right |
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155mm Gun M1 of US 420th Field Artillery Group set up on Keise Shima near Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945 | US Marine with Winchester Model 1912 shotgun on Okinawa, Japan, 1 Apr 1945 |
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Australian Privates Leon Ravet of Parramatta and Bernard Kentwell on patrol with Owen Machine Carbines, New Britain. 4 April 1945 | Corporal Luther E. Boger of US 82nd Airborne Division reading a warning sign in front of Cologne Cathedral, Köln (Cologne), Germany, 4 Apr 1945; note Thompson submachine gun and Panther tank wreck |
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Crewmen of USS Hancock assessing the damage caused by Japanese special attack aircraft, off Okinawa, Japan, 7 Apr 1945 | Mark XIII torpedo with wooden drag ring being loaded into a United States Navy PV-2 Harpoon of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-139 at Casco Field, Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska, 7 Apr 1945. Note the Marsden Matting. |
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Soviet troops in US-built M3A1 scout car fighting in Vienna, Austria, Apr 1945 | Gunners aboard USS Miami firing at Japanese aircraft, off Okinawa, Japan, 14 Apr 1945 |
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Men of US 101st Infantry Regiment running past a burning fuel trailer in square of Kronach, Bayreuth, Germany, 14 Apr 1945 | Private H. E. Goddard of Perth Regiment of the Canadian 5th Armored Division near Arnhem, Netherlands, 15 Apr 1945 |
2,411 items in this album on 121 pages.