doyler Posted February 14, 2022 Share #176 Posted February 14, 2022 A pair of combat-weary GIs photographed during a break in the bitter fighting for Buna-Gona in New Guinea - 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 15, 2022 Share #177 Posted February 15, 2022 A little French girl gives an American soldier a kiss on Valentine’s Day, 1945. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 15, 2022 Share #178 Posted February 15, 2022 Medics load a wounded paratrooper on a LCVP Utah Beach See a couple of the USN iver smocks and great helmet markings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GITom1944 Posted February 16, 2022 Share #179 Posted February 16, 2022 9th Army Mechanized cavalrymen, all from Rochester, NY, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 16, 2022 Share #180 Posted February 16, 2022 1 hour ago, GITom1944 said: 9th Army Mechanized cavalrymen, all from Rochester, NY, That GI on the bottom left in the Tanker Helmet, what is he wearing, looks like a Flight suit of some kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GITom1944 Posted February 16, 2022 Share #181 Posted February 16, 2022 8 hours ago, patches said: That GI on the bottom left in the Tanker Helmet, what is he wearing, looks like a Flight suit of some kind. I had not noticed, but I think you are right... Wonder what the story behind it is? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 18, 2022 Share #182 Posted February 18, 2022 On 2/16/2022 at 6:52 AM, GITom1944 said: I had not noticed, but I think you are right... Wonder what the story behind it is? Tom Thinking a german issue flight suit. Wide collar is in the style used by the Luftwaffe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 18, 2022 Share #183 Posted February 18, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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doyler Posted February 18, 2022 Share #185 Posted February 18, 2022 Pfc. Henry Latanski October 25, 1944 Credited for killing 25 Japanese soldiers in the Pacific during the first major Japanese counter attack on Leyte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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doyler Posted February 18, 2022 Share #188 Posted February 18, 2022 After the American victory on Saipan and Tinian, Japanese civilians were held in internment camps. Security was light because water, food, shelter, and medical care was provided in the camps. The photo depicts a marine giving candy to a Japanese child in an internment camp on Tinian, probably around August 1944. In contrast to Japanese internment camps, the civilians gained weight. There were virtually no POWs as the Japanese soldiers refused to surrender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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doyler Posted February 18, 2022 Share #191 Posted February 18, 2022 Here an American Marine only a few days after Saipan was secured has made friends with a Japanese boy. The new wire caption read, "American Marines and Infatrymenwho took Saipan extended a rotective hand to the Japanese women sand children left behinf by the Japanese soldiers. A friendly Yank Marine gets a big hick out of giving a little Japanese voy a ride on his shoulders." The photograph was dated July 11, only days after the island was secured. (The date may be when the newspaper received it rather than when the photograph was taken.) One wonders after what the boy was told before the American invasion what was going through his mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 18, 2022 Share #192 Posted February 18, 2022 Peleliu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted February 18, 2022 Share #193 Posted February 18, 2022 34 minutes ago, doyler said: Here an American Marine only a few days after Saipan was secured has made friends with a Japanese boy. The new wire caption read, "American Marines and Infatrymenwho took Saipan extended a rotective hand to the Japanese women sand children left behinf by the Japanese soldiers. A friendly Yank Marine gets a big hick out of giving a little Japanese voy a ride on his shoulders." The photograph was dated July 11, only days after the island was secured. (The date may be when the newspaper received it rather than when the photograph was taken.) One wonders after what the boy was told before the American invasion what was going through his mind. My Dad was an Army infantryman who fought on Saipan. He told some sad stories about the civilian population there. Glad this little boy made it through when so many didn't. Good to see the smile on that solder too. Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 18, 2022 Share #194 Posted February 18, 2022 Survivor (Littlest Survivor). Photo by W. Eugene Smith, 1943 During World War II hundreds of Japanese were under siege on the island of Saipan, and committed mass suicide rather than surrender to the Americans. When US Marines searched the island, in one of the caves was found barely alive child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted February 18, 2022 Share #195 Posted February 18, 2022 Here's one not sure if it's original color Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 19, 2022 Share #196 Posted February 19, 2022 12 hours ago, BILL THE PATCH said: Here's one not sure if it's original color Billy see post #30 and 33. https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/44764-great-photo-of-a-battle-damaged-ww-ii-helmet/page/2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryTheGerman Posted February 19, 2022 Share #197 Posted February 19, 2022 United States Marine Corps Military Police, 1943: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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doyler Posted February 20, 2022 Share #199 Posted February 20, 2022 Marine Corporal Virgil W. Burgess gives his dog Prince instructions to which foxhole to carry a message, Iwo Jima, Feb 1945. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 21, 2022 Share #200 Posted February 21, 2022 Two informal portraits in Steel Helmets, here Brigadier Generals. Brigadier General Frederick M. Harris Assistant Divisional Commander 63d Infantry Division Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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