9,486 items in this album on 475 pages.
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US Marines waiting in their foxholes as others blast a Japanese held cave in the nearby hill, Peleliu, Palau Islands, late Sep or early Oct 1944 | USS Spearfish off Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California near the end of her overhaul period, 30 Sep 1944. Photo 1 of 2. |
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USS Spearfish off Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California near the end of her overhaul period, 30 Sep 1944. Photo 2 of 2. | 'Converted Mountaineers' in costume aboard USS West Virginia, Oct 1944 |
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10-year-old Chinese soldier at Myitkyina airfield, Burma awaiting a transport aircraft to take his unit back to China, mid-1944 (photo production date 5 Dec 1944) | 13 Liberty Ships deliberately scuttled to form a breakwater for invasion vessels landing on the Normandy beachhead lie in line off the beach shielding the ships in shore. |
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19-year-old pilot Lt Edwin Wright, already with over 80 missions flown, examining flak damage to his P-47 Thunderbolt on a raid to Münster, Austria, Oct 1944. Wright returned safely to his base in Italy. | A depot of jerrican fuel containers awaiting loading onto US Army 'Red Ball Express' trucks, Europe, 1944 |
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A truck of the US Army 'Red Ball Express' fell into a ditch at the side of a road; GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transports lined the road as a GMC AFKWX tractor struggled to free itself, France, 1944 | A typical meal for the US Marines in the field, photo taken at Peleliu, Palau Islands, Oct 1944; note canned pork loaf, crackers, lemonade, and dried peaches |
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African-American ground crew of US 99th Fighter Squadron 'Tuskeegee Airmen' loading a wing tank onto an US 15th Air Force P-51 Mustang fighter, Italy, late 1944 | African-American pilot Lt. Andrew Marshall, shot down in Greece and kept in hiding by Greek resistant fighters, returned to tell his tale to an American pilot of the 51st Troop Carrier Wing, Oct 1944 |
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African-American US Army soldiers of 4185th Quartermaster Service Company unloading rations from a truck, Liege, Belgium, 1944 | Albert Wedemeyer, He Yingqin, and another officer, Chongqing, China, Oct 1944 |
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An aircraft maintenance crewman with the 497th Bomb Group at Isley Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands securing a propeller for a B-29 Superfortress to a service trailer, late 1944. Note B-29 “Lucky Lynn” beyond. | An SB2C Helldiver making its final landing approach on the carrier Hornet (Essex-class) operating in the Pacific, 1944 |
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B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight together during a test conducted by Boeing, circa late 1944, photo 1 of 3 | B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight together during a test conducted by Boeing, circa late 1944, photo 2 of 3 |
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B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight together during a test conducted by Boeing, circa late 1944, photo 3 of 3 | B-17G Fortress “The Thomper” is under fighter attack and the tail gunner is returning fire, Oct 1944. Location unknown. Note right wing damage and trailing smoke. |
9,486 items in this album on 475 pages.