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Aerial view of Japanese fire-bombed town below. "Some trees were left." Late 1945

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A soldier uses his entrenching tool to dig a foxhole on Guadalcanal. "U.S....

Native New Caledonian older man in Western clothing. New Caledonia. 1944-45

Six soldiers rigging skids for towing a P-39 airplane being lifted by a wrecker truck during retrieval operation in the...

Slide. Four crew members of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Hell's Belle" [tail code Z Square 7, serial number 42-24680...

American military prison/stockade on Tinian; sign in front reads 'Island Command Stockade.' Building looks to be...

Three soldiers lifting a P-39 airplane "43291" with a wrecker truck during retrieval operation in the Aleutian Islands...

View from road of Camp Churo, a camp established by the U.S. military to house Tinian's non-military inhabitants. "...

"Sherman tank shells Jap held positions." 20 February 1945

550.Photograph 'File Number: 49,203 Released: May 24, 1945 Red Stands for Iwo Jima Half-buried in the shifting volcanic...

"Surrender of Japanese General Yamashita, and all Japanese Land, Sea and Air Forces at Baguio, Luzon." August 1945

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Soldiers help Army nurses out of a boat and onto a dock at Cape Gloucester. "...

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