doyler Posted November 17, 2022 Share #426 Posted November 17, 2022 Chaplain with Japanese bullet hole in helmet. Bouganville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted November 17, 2022 Share #427 Posted November 17, 2022 40mm Marine Gun crew. 3rd Defense Bn Bougainville. Not the net on the Marien seated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhscott Posted November 17, 2022 Share #428 Posted November 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, doyler said: 40mm Marine Gun crew. 3rd Defense Bn Bougainville. Not the net on the Marien seated. That talker helmet is huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tthen Posted November 17, 2022 Share #429 Posted November 17, 2022 53 minutes ago, doyler said: 40mm Marine Gun crew. 3rd Defense Bn Bougainville. Not the net on the Marien seated. Great shot Ron, I'm no expert but does that net look Japanese? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted November 17, 2022 Share #430 Posted November 17, 2022 18 hours ago, tthen said: Great shot Ron, I'm no expert but does that net look Japanese? could be a Japanese net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted November 17, 2022 Share #431 Posted November 17, 2022 US Personnel during the advance to Metz, France - November 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted November 26, 2022 Share #432 Posted November 26, 2022 US Marine 75mm howitzer team, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 20-23, 1943. United States Marine Corps Frederick R. Findtner Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted November 28, 2022 Share #433 Posted November 28, 2022 Cartoonist Bill Mauldin watching a GI write a letter somewhere in Italy - 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - John Phillips Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 3, 2022 Share #434 Posted December 3, 2022 Behind the Lines portrait with Steel Helmet, and IKE, the IKE as a quasi Dress quasi Field Item. a Cavalry Officer 2nd Lieutenant Gus Blass 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted December 12, 2022 Share #435 Posted December 12, 2022 Personnel with the US Army 132nd Infantry Regiment tasked with occupying the "Grassy Knoll" (Mount Austen) on Guadalcanal get resupplied with ammunition on the rear slope of Hill 31 - December 1942 Note M1 Garands and M1928A1 Thompson SMG fitted with a drum magazine LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted December 16, 2022 Share #436 Posted December 16, 2022 Picture taken on USS Nevada BB-36 while beached in Pearl Harbor six days after the Japanese attack - December 13, 1941 LIFE Magazine Archives - Bob Landry Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted December 16, 2022 Share #437 Posted December 16, 2022 US 'Nisei' troops with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer US 'Nisei' troops with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer US 'Nisei' troops with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer US 'Nisei' troops with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer US 'Nisei' troops with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer US 'Nisei' troops with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer US 'Nisei' troops with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer US 'Nisei' troops with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer US Officer with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tthen Posted December 16, 2022 Share #438 Posted December 16, 2022 15 minutes ago, doyler said: Picture taken on USS Nevada BB-36 while beached in Pearl Harbor six days after the Japanese attack - December 13, 1941 LIFE Magazine Archives - Bob Landry Photographer This is a great pic Ron, lots going on here. Thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted December 16, 2022 Share #439 Posted December 16, 2022 Two USS Nevada BB-36 Sailors man Lewis Guns with their ship in the background in Pearl Harbor six days after the Japanese attack - December 13, 1941 LIFE Magazine Archives - Bob Landry Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted December 16, 2022 Share #440 Posted December 16, 2022 US Soldiers grab M9 Rifle Grenades (or M9A1) from a trailer in Malmedy Belgium during the opening days of the German Offensive during the Battle of the Bulge - December 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted December 16, 2022 Share #441 Posted December 16, 2022 4 minutes ago, doyler said: US Soldiers grab M9 Rifle Grenades (or M9A1) from a trailer in Malmedy Belgium during the opening days of the German Offensive during the Battle of the Bulge - December 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer Is that one soldier wearing a flight helmet? Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persian Gulf Command Posted December 16, 2022 Share #442 Posted December 16, 2022 Doyler, Thank you so much for posting this photo. It's great! Soldiers preparing for combat, Bastogne, Winter of 1944, Ordnance in Fiber Containers, WOW! Also looks like there are some Mk2 Grenade Containers in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoovieDude Posted December 20, 2022 Share #443 Posted December 20, 2022 On 11/7/2022 at 4:05 PM, ArchangelDM said: Here is some great pacific shots of M1’s Love the camo on these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted December 20, 2022 Share #444 Posted December 20, 2022 On 11/8/2022 at 4:17 PM, doyler said: USS Philadelphia CL-41 providing gunfire support during Operation Torch off of Safi Morocco - November 8, 1942 LIFE Magazine Archives - Eliot Elisofon Photographer I believe that may be Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 21, 2022 Share #445 Posted December 21, 2022 A 2nd Lieutenant Raffi Bedayan 10th Mountain Division, L Company, 3rd Battalion 87th Infantry. Bedyan a notable in Mountain Climbing in the 30s was probably one of those Outdoorsman types specifically recruited to form the 87th Infantry at Fort Lewis- Camp Hale. https://verticalarchaeology.com/2017/04/06/1938-raffi-bedayan-photo/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted December 24, 2022 Share #446 Posted December 24, 2022 On 12/16/2022 at 5:28 PM, mikie said: Is that one soldier wearing a flight helmet? Mikie Yes looks like a Luftwaffe flight cap by the shape of the receiver housings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhscott Posted December 27, 2022 Share #447 Posted December 27, 2022 On 12/16/2022 at 6:23 PM, doyler said: US Soldiers grab M9 Rifle Grenades (or M9A1) from a trailer in Malmedy Belgium during the opening days of the German Offensive during the Battle of the Bulge - December 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer Best guess what kind of cover this is on his helmet? Parachute or Brit scarf…??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmd62 Posted December 27, 2022 Share #448 Posted December 27, 2022 On 12/15/2022 at 4:17 PM, doyler said: US Officer with the 100th Infantry Battalion / 133rd Infantry Regiment, under the overall command of the 34th Infantry somewhere in Italy - late 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer Hey Guys, I was looking over these great photos again and noticed the helmet shell is laying on the liner AND it's leather chinstrap. Was that a common practice or was this maybe just for the photo? Thanks, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglerunner88 Posted December 27, 2022 Share #449 Posted December 27, 2022 3 hours ago, jmd62 said: Hey Guys, I was looking over these great photos again and noticed the helmet shell is laying on the liner AND it's leather chinstrap. Was that a common practice or was this maybe just for the photo? Thanks, James Very common from what I've seen. If anything, the strap was mostly seen as unnecessary to the point where most soldiers just removed it entirely. Plenty of photos of that as the war progressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmd62 Posted December 27, 2022 Share #450 Posted December 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, eaglerunner88 said: Very common from what I've seen. If anything, the strap was mostly seen as unnecessary to the point where most soldiers just removed it entirely. Plenty of photos of that as the war progressed. Makes sense, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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