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Slide. Low-angle view of the sky at sunset. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Group portrait of the "R" Division aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: ""R" Division." 1945

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A Piper J-3 Cub (a.k.a. L-4) flies low over the ground of Guadalcanal to pick up...

Two soldiers wrestle at a camp on an unknown Pacific location during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.

"Grass burned on perimeter of "Kobayasi Line" Luzon, P.I." [1945]

Christmas tree inside the Riverside Inn, an American Red Cross club on Tinian; U.S. servicemen are reading newspapers...

Aerial view of North Field and the island of Tinian. "Tinian." Late 1945

67.Photograph. Unidentified U.S. nurses in landscape. 'June 25 New Caledonia.' New Caledonia. 1944-45

Soldiers surround a F-13A photo reconnaissance aircraft crashed amid rocks and sand. The plane is a modified B-29...

Slide. Large group of American airmen inside a sandbag bunker. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1944

Members of Combat Photo Unit 10 interact with local Filipinos in the town square of Palo. "Combat Photo Unit 10 at Palo...

Sailors from the USS Rutland enjoy barbecue on Ulithi in May 1945. From donor's notes: "Grilling steaks, 5-20-45." 20...

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