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41st Infantry Division firing a flamethrower at Japanese forces on Mount Daho, Jolo Island
Photograph. United States Army soldier from the 41st Infantry Division firing a flamethrower into brush while two other...
41st Infantry Division firing a howitzer at Japanese forces, Mindanao Island, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 41st Infantry Division firing a howitzer positioned on on a hillside...
44th Infantry Division advancing through a forest, France, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 44th Infantry Division advancing past a dead German soldier in a...
511th Parachute Infantry Regiment paratroopers dropping onto a Japanese air base, Aparri, 1945
Photograph, aerial. 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment paratroopers being dropped onto a Japanese air base. Official...
5th Army self-propelled artillery guns firing during a night battle, Italy, 1945
Photograph. Row of self-propelled artillery guns from the 5th Army firing at night. Official caption on front: "5th...
5th Army tank destroyer shooting during a night battle, Italy, 1945
Photograph. American tank destroyer from the 5th Army firing during a night battle. Official caption on front: "5th...
5th Army tanks firing at German forces on a hill, Pietramala
Photograph. Two United States Army tanks from the 5th Army firing at German forces on the top of a hillside. Official...
6th Infantry Division advancing through the Cabaruan Hills, Philippines, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 6th Infantry Division advancing towards a cloud of smoke in a forest....
7th Armored Division shootout with German snipers, Saint-Vith, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 7th Armored Division crouching in a war-damaged street in front of a...
7th Army searching for German snipers, Saint-Raphaël, 1944
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 7th Army searching a war-damaged automobile service station for German...
7th Army under German fire, Niederbronn, 1944
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 7th Army taking cover from German fire on sidewalk near an American...
7th Infantry Division attacking a Japanese pillbox, Marshall Islands, 1944
Photograph. United States Army soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division using explosives on a Japanese pillbox. Official...
7th Infantry Division soldier using a flame thrower to burn a Japanese pillbox on Kwajalein Island in February 1944
7th Infantry Division soldier using a flame thrower to burn Japanese pillbox/dugout; others wait in foreground. 'W-CPA-...
7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past the dead body of fellow American soldier as they head into combat at Kwajalein on January 1944
7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past dead body of fellow American soldier along road headed into combat. 'W-CPA-44-...
7th Infantry Division soldiers, some wearing checkered clothes on their backs as part of an advanced assault unit on Kwajalein Island in February 1944
7th Infantry Division soldiers, some wearing checkered clothes on their backs as part of an advanced assault unit;...
88th Infantry Division running past a burning German tank, Rome, 1944
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 88th Infantry Division running past a burning German tank during urban...
9th Infantry Division advancing down a street under protection of a Sherman tank, Belgium
Photograph. Line of United States Army soldiers from the 9th Infantry Division advancing down a cobblestone street next...
9th Infantry Division shooting at enemy forces on a hilltop near Morsbach, Germany
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 9th Infantry Division crouching and lying in prone position while...
A 37th Division mortar squad fires on Japanese in Intramuros from an apartment rooftop in Manila on 18 February 1945
"37th Div mortar squad fires on Japs in Intramurals from apartment rooftop." 18 February 1945
A 7th Infantry Division soldier during a battle, prone position with an M1 Garand, using a piece of Japanese artillery for protection in January 1944
A 7th Infantry Division soldier during a battle, prone position with an M1 Garand, using a piece of Japanese artillery...
A gun crew firing into German occupied Brest in September 1944
A gun crew firing into German occupied Brest. "ETO-HQ-44-14880. Weintraub. 17 Sept. Signal corps photo. An American gun...
A kamikaze plane crashes into the ocean near an Essex class aircraft carrier on Iwo Jima in February 1945
A kamikaze plane crashes into the ocean near an Essex class aircraft carrier; anti-aircraft fire surrounds the vessel....
A M4 Sherman tank moves towards a jungle of palm trees and smoke on Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Rear view of a M4 Sherman tank moving towards a jungle of palm trees and a pillar of smoke. "Rolling into Kwajalein."...
A machine gun crew hurries past a burning building in Germany in February 1945
A machine gun crew hurries past a burning building. "ETO-HQ-45-13724. Rothenberger. 16 Feb. Signal corps photo. A heavy...
A mortar fires a shell during combat in Saint-Lô, France on 26 July 1944
A mortar fires a shell during combat. Official caption: "ETO-HQ-44-8565-Petrony-5-26 July. Credit...Signal Corps Photo...
A soldier fighting against Nazi troops in Bra, Belgium on Christmas Day, 25 December 1944
A soldier fighting against Nazi troops. First official caption: "Master Caption 31133-36. While digging in on front-...
A soldier looks through binoculars in the field in Germany on 10 December 1944
A soldier looks through binoculars in the field. Note that units have been stricken in the caption. Official caption: "...
A US Marine, holding a flame thrower, stands near dead Japanese soldiers on Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
A US Marine, holding a flame thrower, stands near two dead Japanese soldiers; there is a damaged bunker behind them and...
A US soldier takes cover behind a Japanese artillery gun and ammunition boxes, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
A US soldier, holding a rifle and in a prone position, takes cover behind a Japanese artillery gun. The gun is on...
Action scene of soldiers running across road during Italian campaign in 1944
567.Photograph. Action shot of a platoon of soldiers getting up to run across a road to the next field. Italy. 1944
African American soldier firing a bazooka at German forces, Italy
Photograph. Untied States Army African American soldier firing a bazooka at German forces from behind a low hill; other...
Allied soldier watching for Germans near Sant'oliva, Italy, 1944
Photograph. Allied soldier with rifle watches for Germans. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-5460." Official caption...
American anti-tank crew loading weapon, Italy, 1944
Photograph. American anti-tank crew loading weapon. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-985." Official caption on...
American anti-tank unit fires in France in June 1944
American anti-tank unit fires at enemy position. "ETO-HQ-44-5296. Massenge. 10 June. Signal corps photo. An American...
American artillery observers utilize their field glasses to watch enemy fortifications being shelled near San Pietro, Italy, 1943
Photograph. American artillery observers keep their field glasses glued on enemy fortifications being pounded by...

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