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Map showing the offensive-defensive phase of the war in the Pacific from August 7, 1942, to August 6, 1943
445.Photograph. Official U. S. Navy Map of Western Pacific 'File No: 45297 April 23, 1944 Admiral King's Report: Chart...
Marine cemetary on Iwo Jima, 1945-46
View of a Marine cemetery on Iwo Jima, and the ocean beyond. "Marine cemetery. Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46
Marine Corps cemetery on Tinian in late 1945
United States Marine Corps cemetery on Tinian; American flag flying in middle of cemetery. "Tinian. Marine cemetery."...
Marine Corps General Holland McTyeire Smith, commander of the V Amphibious Corps, speaking at ceremony after successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll in February 1944
Marine Corps General Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, commander of the V Amphibious Corps, speaking at ceremony...
Marine Corps rocket trucks launching land-based, self-propelled rockets on Iwo Jima in February 1945
Marine Corps rocket trucks launching land-based, self-propelled rockets. Official caption:'"Marine rocket truck...
Marine Corps Vought Corsair in teh Pacific.
"File No: TR -0743. Marine Corps Raiders - The sleek Vought Corsair, skimming clouds at a 400-mile-an-hour clip, has...
Marine general at 2nd Marine Division Cemetery on Saipan
Lt. General Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith at 2nd Marine Division Cemetery on Saipan. Official caption:'"Lt....
Marine laden U. S. Navy landing craft pierce Japanese fire as they approach Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945
540.Photograph 'File Number: 305663 Released: April 11, 1945 Sea arrows of invasion Feathery shaft-like wakes of Marine...
Marine milking a goat found on Iwo Jima on March 1945
544.Photograph 'File Number: TR-13271 Released: June 1, 1945 Fresh milk on Iwo Jima The only Japanese livestock found...
Marines aboard an aircraft carrier in September 1944
"File Number: 243454 September 19, 1944. Reveille at dawn-- Sprawled out below the wings of Navy planes, Marines en...
Marines aboard the USS Rutland near Saipan in 1945
U.S. Marines sitting on deck of USS Rutland; probably off of Saipan in February 1945. From donor's notes: "The Marines...
Marines and Coast Guard set up command posts on Iwo Jima in March 1945
516.Photograph 'CinCPac 5381 March 1, 1945 Dug in on the Iwo Jima beach Marines and Coast Guard Battalion men set up...
Marines debarking from LST-202, Cape Gloucester
Photograph. 1st Marine Division Marines debarking from USS LST-202 onto a beach; another LST [Landing ship, tanks] is...
Marines display Japanese battle flags captured on Iwo Jima in February 1945
526.Photograph 'CinCPac 8017 25 February 1945 Prize of battle Fifth Division Marines, grouped behind their light...
Marines drinking coffee after conquering Eniwetok
Young Marine blows to cool coffee. '"File No: C.G. 3345. Coffee for the Conquerors of Eniwetok - These Marines,...
Marines fording a river in a column on Guadalcanal in 1942
Marines fording a river in a column. Guadalcanal. 1942
Marines in LCVP injured on Iwo Jima arriving at USS Rutland on 19 February 1945
View from the side of the USS Rutland looking down onto U.S. Marine casualties in an LCVP [Landing Craft, Vehicle,...
Marines lies as he fell on Iwo Jima in February 1945
550.Photograph 'File Number: 49,203 Released: May 24, 1945 Red Stands for Iwo Jima Half-buried in the shifting volcanic...
Marines storming a Japanese stronghold on Tarawa in November, 1943.
Marines storming a Japanese stronghold, possibly including Lt. Alexander Bonnyman and his assault party. Bonnyman...
Marines unload supplies from landing crafts on Iwo Jima in February 1945
Marines unload supplies from LSM-201 [Landing Ship Medium] and LST-807 [Landing Ship, Tank] at beach at Iwo Jima;...
Marines, covered with their ponchos, lie on the Iwo Jima beach they gave their lives to win in February 1945
555.Photograph 'CinCPac 8051 Released: March 4, 1945 The Power and the Price The power of the invasion armada (...
Marquee for American Red Cross Banker's Club at the Ginko Kyokai building in Tokyo, Japan after 1945
Marquee for American Red Cross Banker's Club at the Ginko Kyokai building in Tokyo, Japan after 1945.
Masted fishing boats anchored in the bay at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in 1944
Four two-masted small fishing boats anchored with mountains in the distance. "Luggers at rest on the bay at Moresby."...
Master Sergeant John Spinks with two other servicemen at Sansapor Airfield in 1944-1945
Master Sergeant John Spinks with two other servicemen at Sansapor Airfield (also known as Mar Airfield). '"George Goode...
Master Sergeant Spinks and other members of the armament section of the 100th Bombardment Squadron in front of their section's tent at Sansapor Airfield, New Guinea in 1944
Master Sergeant John O. Spinks and other members of the armament section of the 100th Bombardment Squadron in front of...
Master Sergeant Spinks posing with a .30 caliber machine gun outside an elevated military tent at Palawan in 1945
Master Sergeant John O. Spinks, Sr. posing with a M1919 Browning .30 caliber medium machine gun outside elevated...
Master Sergeant Spinks with other US servicemen posing along a muddy and flooded company street at military base on Morotai Island in 1944
Master Sergeant John O. Spinks, Sr. (center) with other US servicemen posing along muddy and flooded company street at...
Medical officers aboard the USS Rutland in 1945
Group portrait of the medical officers aboard the USS Rutland in 1945; All but one are wearing life belts. From donor's...
Medics aid 32nd Division GIs on the Villa Verde trail in the Philippines in 1945
"Medics aid 32nd Div G.I. on Villa Verde trail." [1945]
Medium bombers parked at Isley Field, Saipan, 1945
Slide. Two medium bombers parked on a runway; a hanger is in the background. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana...
Members of a U.S. Navy beach battalion dive for protection as a German plane strafes the Normandy shore in June 1944
Members of a U.S. Navy beach battalion dive for protection on Normandy shore in June 1944. "File Number 252841. June 20...
Members of Combat Photo Unit 10 interact with local Filipinos in the town square of Palo, Leyte in the Philippines on 22 October 1944
Members of Combat Photo Unit 10 interact with local Filipinos in the town square of Palo. "Combat Photo Unit 10 at Palo...
Members of Combat Photo Unit 10 interact with local Filipinos in the town square of Palo, Leyte in the Philippines on 22 October 1944
Duplicate of 314: Members of Combat Photo Unit 10 interact with local Filipinos in the town square of Palo. "Combat...
Members of Combat Photo Unit 10 sit atop two jeeps on a jungle road at Palo, Leyte in the Philippines on 22 October 1944
Members of Combat Photo Unit 10 (which included donor) sit atop two jeeps on a jungle road. "Combat Photo Unit 10,...
Members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team (the Bushmasters) push a jeep ashore from and LCVP during amphibious training exercises on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands on 11 March 1944
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team (the Bushmasters) push a jeep ashore...
Members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team approach Damortes in the Philippines in 1945
"Members of 158 RCT [Regimental Combat Team] approach Damortes." [1945]. The 158th Regimental Combat Team was also...

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