Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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A soldier stands in front of a make-shift mess hall, probably at Bougainville in 1945
A soldier stands in front of a make-shift mess hall, probably at Bougainville in 1945. Soldiers of Company E, 145th...
A soldier stands in front of a make-shift mess hall, probably at Bougainville in 1945
A soldier stands in front of a make-shift mess hall, probably at Bougainville in 1945. Soldiers of Company E, 145th...
A soldier stands in front of a make-shift mess hall, probably at Bougainville in 1945
A soldier stands in front of a make-shift mess hall, probably at Bougainville in 1945. Soldiers of Company E, 145th...
A soldier takes motion picture as another soldier stands behind him at Leyte in the Philippines in October 1944
A soldier takes motion picture as another soldier stands behind him. "Robert Stone, still, and Don Honeyman, motion...
A soldier unloads mail from a jeep onto a loading dock in Papua New Guinea in 1944
V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "This is a typical load of V-Mail arriving once and sometimes, two or three...
A soldier unloads V-mail from a truck into an incinerator in Papua New Guinea in 1944
V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "All V-Mail is destroyed by burning in this incinerator. This insures the...
A soldier uses his entrenching tool to dig a foxhole on Guadalcanal in 1943
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A soldier uses his entrenching tool to dig a foxhole on Guadalcanal. "U.S....
A soldier uses his M1 helmet to fig a foxhole on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1943
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A soldier uses his M1 helmet to fig a foxhole on Guadalcanal, the soldier behind...
A soldier washes clothes at camp at an unknown location in the Pacific during World War II
A soldier washes clothes at camp at an unknown location in the Pacific during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.
A soldier works among stacks of mail during V-mail processing in Papua New Guinea in 1944
V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "The retake department where all originals of V-Mail are stored until...
A stockpile of Japanese bombs at an unknown location
A stockpile of Japanese bombs at an unknown location. "Nip bombs." Probably on New Guinea.
A street in Guam lined with damaged buildings and rubble, 1944-45
Destruction to houses and rubble along roadside. "Guam." Guam. 1944-45
A street lined with barracks of the 40th Infantry Division at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in August 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A street lined with barracks, base camp of the 40th Infantry Division on Cape...
A street scene in the village of Baybay in the Philippines in 1944
"Street scene in the village of Bay-Bay, on the way to the public market. At these market places the Filipinos buy...
A surrendering Japanese soldier, surrounded by Marines, is pulled up out of a foxhole on Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
A surrendering Japanese soldier, surrounded by Marines, is pulled up out of a foxhole. There is a machine gun on a...
A surrendering Japanese soldier, surrounded by Marines, is pulled up out of a foxhole on Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
A surrendering Japanese soldier, surrounded by Marines, is pulled up out of a foxhole. "Jap surrenders on Kwajelein."...
A tank battalion leads an advance on Baguio in the Philippines on 23 April 1945
"775th Tank Bn[Battalion], 37th [Infantry Division] Div, leads advance on Baguio." 23 April 1945
A tank column stops near Manila City Hall in the Philippines in 1945
"Tank column stops near Manila city hall." [1945]
A temporary building of the 251st Station Hospital which serves as a hospital ward at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in 1944
A temporary building at the 251st Station Hospital, which serves as a hospital ward. "251st Station Hospital, Cape...
A termite mound in Australia during World War II
A termite mound in Australia during World War II. "An ant hill in Australia."
A termite mound in Australia during World War II
A termite mound in Australia during World War II.
A termite mound in Australia during World War II
A termite mound in Australia during World War II.
A termite mound in Australia during World War II
A termite mound in Australia during World War II.
A thatch-roofed hut made of bamboo in the Philippines in 1944
A thatch-roofed hut made of bamboo. "The Filipino home, like ours in the states varies from the lowest and crudest type...
A thatched roof dwelling with garden on Guam, 1945-46
Local house with thatched roof, clothesline and garden. Probably constructed after the war by US soldiers. "Guam." Guam...
A thatched roof, open air structure on Guam, 1944-45
Large, thatched roof, open air structure. "Guam." Guam. 1944-45
A tractor drives over a wooden bridge at Talasea, New Britain in September 1944
A tractor drives over a wooden bridge built at New Britain. "Completed bridge through swamp area near Talasea, New...
A tractor pulls a boat out of the water and onto the beach to be worked on at New Britain in September 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A tractor pulls a boat out of the water and onto the beach to be worked on. "...
A transport plane sits on an unknown runway in the Pacific in 1940s
A transport plane sits on an unknown runway in the Pacific in 1940s. Probably on New Guinea.
A troop transport ship approaches an invasion site for amphibious training of the 40th Infantry Division at an unknown location in June 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A troop transport ship approaches invasion site, presumably for amphibious...
A truck moves down the highway at an unknown location in the Pacific during World War II
A truck moves down the highway at an unknown location in the Pacific during World War II. Possibly in Australia.
A truck whose bed is full of rocks to be used in making the road more functional at New Britain in September 1944
A truck whose bed is full of rocks, presumably to be used in making the road more functional by engineers of the 40th...
A U. S. Marine is buried in the waters off the shore of Iwo Jima in February 1945
552.Photograph 'C.G. 48285 February, 1945 Sea burial for Marine killed on Iwo Jima The flag-draped body of a U. S....
A U. S. Navy PBM Martin Mariner lands in the water off the rocky coast of Iwo Jima on 24 February 1945
549.Photograph 'File Number: 306992 Released: May 4, 1945 Iwo Jima wounded evacuated by air A U. S. Navy PBM Martin...
A U.S. government built village at the foot of a hill on Guam, 1944-45
Tropical village of thatched roof houses. "U.S. government housing project - Guam."' Guam. 1944-45

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