doyler Posted April 17 Share #776 Posted April 17 Two US Army Engineers with mine detectors in Italy - 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Margaret Bourke-White Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 17 Share #777 Posted April 17 A Martin PBM-5 Mariner patrol bomber, of Fleet Air Wing One refuels from a fuel bowser boat in Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, May 1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 17 Share #778 Posted April 17 An MP with the US 518th Military Police Battalion watches over German POW’s with a Shotgun and a M1919 Browning MG somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia Germany - April 1945 LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted April 17 Share #779 Posted April 17 8 hours ago, doyler said: An MP with the US 518th Military Police Battalion watches over German POW’s with a Shotgun and a M1919 Browning MG somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia Germany - April 1945 LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer All great photos again today Ron. Not enough LIKES for them all. The soldier in this one looks a bit like my FedEx driver. mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 17 Share #780 Posted April 17 OKINAWA. A guncrew of the 383rd Inf. Regt. loads a shell into the new 57mm recoiless rifle to fire against Japanese pillboxes and caves on Okinawa. 10 June, 1945. 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. Photographer not credited. ORIGINAL WARTIME CAPTION. (Signal Corps.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 18 Share #781 Posted April 18 US Army BAR Gunner cleans his BAR during a pause on Okinawa - April / May 1945 LIFE Magazine Archives - W. Eugene Smith Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 04:57 AM Share #782 Posted Monday at 04:57 AM US Army Sniper with a M1903A4 Springfield sniper rifle in the Philippines near Capas, Tarlac - January / February 1945 Note light colored grenade in his belt, presumably yellow LIFE Magzaine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 05:03 AM Share #783 Posted Monday at 05:03 AM Two US Soldiers armed with M1903 Springfield rifles in Tunisia - February 1943 LIFE Magazine - Margaret Bourke-White Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 05:05 AM Share #784 Posted Monday at 05:05 AM US Personnel with a Browning M2 water-cooled .50 cal / 12.7mm machine gun in an anti-aircraft mount at an airbase in North Africa - Early 1943 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted Monday at 05:33 AM Share #785 Posted Monday at 05:33 AM 27 minutes ago, doyler said: US Personnel with a Browning M2 water-cooled .50 cal / 12.7mm machine gun in an anti-aircraft mount at an airbase in North Africa - Early 1943 I can’t say I’m familiar with that water cooled .50. I’ll need to look it up. mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 05:37 AM Share #786 Posted Monday at 05:37 AM 2 minutes ago, mikie said: I can’t say I’m familiar with that water cooled .50. I’ll need to look it up. mikie See them at Pearl Harbor and other battles in photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 05:41 AM Share #787 Posted Monday at 05:41 AM Forcemen of 5-2, First Special Service Force, with an M41 Johnson light machine gun, Anzio beachhead, Italy, ca. 20-27 April 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 08:24 PM Share #788 Posted Monday at 08:24 PM US Soldiers head for the beach in an LCP(R) during the Hollandia landings in Dutch New Guinea - April 22, 1944 NARA - US Navy (the sailor in the gunner/talkers helmet looks like hes about 15 years old.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 08:25 PM Share #789 Posted Monday at 08:25 PM US & Australian Troops in a Coast Guard manned LCM approach the New Guinea coast at Aitape during Operation Persecution - April 22, 1944 Operation Persecution was undertaken simultaneously with Operation Reckless, the landings at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. NARA - US Coast Guard Photographer 80-G-177381 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 08:26 PM Share #790 Posted Monday at 08:26 PM GI in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with two Thompson SMG Ammunition Magazines in his front jacket pocket - April 1945 LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted Monday at 08:28 PM Share #791 Posted Monday at 08:28 PM Tired and exhausted GI in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - April 1945 LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted Monday at 10:04 PM Share #792 Posted Monday at 10:04 PM 16 hours ago, doyler said: Forcemen of 5-2, First Special Service Force, with an M41 Johnson light machine gun, Anzio beachhead, Italy, ca. 20-27 April 1944. This is another one I’m not very familiar with. Thanks Ron for helping edumicate me. Just so you know I’m not totally ignorant, I do know what a burp gun is. Just thought I’d bring that up. mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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