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| 2nd Armored Division tank aims at enemy targets across Roer River 2nd Armored Division tank destroyer on dug-in ramp has plenty of elevation to hurl shells at long range enemy targets across the Roer River, Battery C, 702 TD Bn. L-R: Sgt. Earl F. Scholz, Pvt. George E. Van Horne, and Pfc. Samuel R. Marcum with U.S. 9th Army, December 16, 1944. |
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| 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry, marching through the Kasserine Pass Members of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry, marching through the Kasserine Pass, on to Farriana. View looking east toward Kasserine through the pass. 26 Feb 1943. |
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| 2nd Canadian Army Tank Brigade Sherman tank crew with 2nd Canadian Army Tank Brigade, rest before the battle south of Vaucelles, in the Basse-Normandie région. June 10, 1944, D-Day + 4, Wr in Color. |
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| 2nd Canadian Infantry Division unloads on Juno beach Saskatchewan Regiment of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division unloads on Juno beach. |
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| 2nd Marine Division during the battle of Tarawa Troops with 2nd Marine Division take cover behind a sea wall on Red Beach #3, during the battle of Tarawa, November 20, 1943. |
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| 2nd Marine Division storming Japanese bunker on Tarawa Lt. Alexander Bonnyman 4th from right and his assault party with 2nd Marine Division, storming Japanese stronghold during the battle of Tarawa. Medals of Honor were awarded to 1stLt. Alexander Bonnyman, SSgt. William J. Bordelon, 1stLt. William D. Hawkins, and Col. David M. Shoup, for their action in combat on November 21, 1943. Photo by WO Obie Newcomb, Jr., US Marine Corps. |
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| 2nd Marine Regiment on Guadalcanal Group of Marines at rest are with K Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, on extended duty with the 1st Marine Division, landed in Tulagi, August 7, 1942 and held it until relieved by other elements of the 2nd Marines, September 14, 1942. Tulagi, Guadalcanal. |
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| 347th Infantry Regiment in chow line Chow is served to 347th Infantry Regiment on their way to LaRoche, Belgium, during the "Battle of the Bulge" 1/13/45. |
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| 35th Engineers Brigade build the Alcan Highway Caterpillar tractor from the 35th Engineers, breaking up the rocky surface for the Alcan Highway in Alaska. The pioneer road totaled 1543 miles with more than 200 bridges and 8000 culverts. The Alcan Highway served the American and Canadian military until the end of World War II when it was opened to civilian traffic. |
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| 37th Infantry Division lands on Bougainville Soldiers with 37th Infantry (Army) Division try to secure landing craft in heavy surf after landing on Bougainville, November, 1944. |
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| 388th Battalion repairing trucks at camp 388th Battalion (Separate) who are building the Alcan Highway, are back in camp repairing trucks and equipment, October 1942. The 93rd, 95th, 97th (Regiments) and 388th Battalion (Separate) of the Corps of Engineers assigned to Alaska. The 3,695 African American troops accounted for slightly more than a third of the 10,607 engineers on the highway. These soldiers made a major contribution to the war effort which, until recently, was not recognized. |
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| 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) at crossroad Caumont, France. D-Day + 2 105mm Motorized Howitzer M7 Priest with the 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) move past M.P. in Caumont, France. D-Day + 2, June 8, 1944. |
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| 3d Infantry Division at Caumont, France 105mm Motorized Howitzer M7 Priest with the 3d Infantry Division move past M.P. in Caumont, France. D-Day + 2, June 8, 1944. |
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| 3rd Armored Division move into Marigny M5A1 Tanks from 3rd Armored Division nicknamed "Spearhead Division" moving tanks and armoured vehicles on the road to Marigny. Light armoured tanks of the 33rd Armored Regiment, 3rd AD, the M5A1 on the left is from B Company. |
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| 3rd Armored Division riding on tank at Siegfried Line 39th Infantry, 9th Division, 3rd Armored Division riding on the back of a bulldozer tank going through Siegfried Line. |
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| 3rd Canadian Infantry Division aboard LCT-243 3rd Canadian Infantry Division aboard LCT-243 ready to move on Juno Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944. |
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| 3rd Marine Division lands on Bougainville The first wave of the assault force moved ashore, Third Marine Division during the landings on Bougainville, at 0645hrs on 1 November 1943, "Battle of Bougainville," Solomon Islands. |
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| 3rd Marine Division move into Empress Augusta Bay On 1 November 1943 the US 3rd Marine Division landed at Cape Torokina in Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville. The bay had been chosen because it was at the outer limit of Allied fighter plane range, and because the numerically-superior Japanese 17th Army was concentrated at other more strategic sites in the north and the south. The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, on November 1-2, 1943 — also known as the "Battle of Gazelle Bay," "Operation Cherry Blossom" and in Japanese sources as the "Sea Battle of Bougainville Bay Shore"— was a naval battle fought near the island of Bougainville. |
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| 3rd Marine Division, Battle of Guam Marine from the 3rd Marine Division goes after a sniper in a shelled building during the "Battle of Guam," August 1944. Photo by Cpl. J. F. Andrejka (Marine Corps) |
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| 3rd RHA leading parade in Berlin 3rd RHA leading parade, during the drive past monty in Berlin parade, July 1945. "Only in 5x7" |
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| 40mm Bofors gun firing aboard USS Hornet Task Force 58 raid on Japan, USS Hornet launches pre-dawn strikes on Tokyo to resume where HORNET (CV-8) had left off 34 months before. The 40mm Bofors gun firing aboard USS Hornet during the attack on 16 February 1945, as the carrier's planes were raiding Tokyo. Note expended shells and ready-service ammunition at right. Photo by Lt. Comdr. Charles Kerlee, US Navy. |
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| 442nd Regiment enter building Americans of Japanese descent, Infantrymen of the 442nd Regiment run for cover as a German artillery shell is about to land outside the building in Italy. April 4, 1945. Levine. (Army) |
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| 44th Evac orderlies carry Malmedy victims "Battle of the Bulge" 44th Evacuation Hospital Orderlies Carry Malmedy victim on Stretcher, "Massacre at Malmedy," "Battle of the Bulge." On the second day of the "Battle of the Bulge", December 17, 1944, SS troops herded a group of Americans, mostly from Battery B from the 285th Field Artillery observation battalion into a field at the "Five Points" of Baugnez crossroads near the Belgian town of Malmédy. The POWs were lined up, and then the Germans suddenly opened fire on them for reasons that remain unclear. As the German soldiers and tanks left the area, they shot Americans who showed signs of life and pumped more bullets into those already dead. The exact number killed was never determined with certainty, but it was between 90 and 130. Several men somehow escaped, but some were found hiding in a nearby cafe. The Germans set the building on fire and then shot the men as they ran out. A handful of other GIs eluded the Germans and got out the word that the Germans were shooting POWs. An article in Stars and Stripes alerted the world to the massacre in stark terms, which was used for anti-Nazi propaganda. A group of ex-Waffen SS officers of the 1st Panzer Corps were convicted before an American military tribunal convened May 12-July 16, 1946, at Dachau. Seventy-two were found guilty and 42 were sentenced to death, though all these were later commutted to life imprisonment. One defendant committed suicide and one was acquitted; the remainder were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. |
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| 44th Infantry with 6th Armored Division during "Battle of the Bulge" Members of the 44th Armored Infantry, supported by tanks of the 6th Armored Division, move in to attack German troops surrounding Bastogne, Belgium, during the "Battle of the Bulge," 31 Dec 1944. |
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| 47mm Bofors gun on top of Phoenix B90 American unloading in Normandy at Omaha Beach. Each Phoenix was equipped with AA 47mm Bofors gun on top. |
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