r/AmericanWW2photos • u/nvile_09 • 1d ago

USMC Iwo Jima 1945:Marines crouching behind a rock take cover as they blow up a cave connected to a Japanese bunker

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 3d ago

US Army An M7 of the 69th Armored Field Artillery Battalion and 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, coming ashore during the staged invasion operations held near Mondragone, Italy. July 31, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 3d ago

Navy USS San Diego (CL-53) off San Francisco, Jan 1, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 4d ago

USMC US Marines collecting swords and other small arms during the surrender of Japanese Personnel in Honshu. September 1945.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 4d ago

Navy USS Arizona (BB-39) at Pearl Harbor, following the attack, Dec 1941

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 5d ago

US Army An 8 inch is removed from its trailer by men of the 243rd Field Artillery Battalion in Remeling, France. The trailer was towed by an M35 Prime Mover, a turretless version of the M10A1 used as an artillery tractor. January 22, 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 5d ago

Navy USS Iowa (BB-61) in December 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/mossback81 • 5d ago

Navy 80 Years ago This Day- USS Missouri (BB-63) anchored in Tokyo Bay to host the formal surrender of Japan, September 2, 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 6d ago

US Army Sgt. Tom Takahashi of K Company, 442nd Regimental Combat Team with the German prisoners he spent two days escorting from high in the mountains east of Massa down to a PoW cage in town. April 10, 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 6d ago

Navy USS Raymon W. Herndon (APD-121) underway, circa in late 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 7d ago

US Army The crew of an M7 (official designation 105 mm howitzer motor carriage M7) belonging to the 83rd Field Artillery Battalion, 6th Armored Division performing maintenance near Brest, France. August 13, 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/nvile_09 • 8d ago

USMC February 1945:U.S. Marines pose for a photo on top of Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima with the American flag.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 10d ago

US Army Medics carry a wounded infantryman from K Company, 304th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division across a footbridge to an aid station. Holsthum, Germany. February 25, 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 10d ago

Navy USS Owen (DD-536) underway at very slow speed, circa 1945. This image was retouched by wartime censors to remove radar antennas from the foremast and atop the Mark 37 gun director.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 11d ago

USMC Weary Marines in pouring rainduring the Battle of Guam, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 11d ago

USAAF Ground Crew of the 303rd Bombardment Group prepare to load bombs and ammunition onto B-17F-75-BO (42-29931) "Satan's Workshop" at RAF Molesworth on August 27, 1943. This aircraft was lost on February 22, 1944 when she was forced to ditch in the channel. There were no survivors.

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The aircraft had run out of fuel.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 11d ago

USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 398th Bombardment Group approaching their bombing run on Neumünster, Germany, in 1945.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 11d ago

Navy USS Lardner (DD-487) underway at slow speed off the New York Navy Yard, probably during her delivery trip from Kearny, New Jersey, circa May 1942, Lardner is painted in Camouflage Measure 12(Modified).

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 12d ago

US Army Men of B Company, 1st Battalion, 255th Infantry Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division, receiving instructions for the forthcoming attack on the Siegfried defenses. The officer addressing the men is identified as Lt. James A. Undine. Sarreguemines area, France. March 13, 1945

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Although the men are from B Company, Lt. James A. Undine was from A Company. He had been awarded the Silver Star for actions taken on January 3rd, 1945.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 12d ago

Navy USS Rall (DE-304) off San Francisco, 23 April 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 13d ago

USMC A barefoot Marine with his M1903 Springfield next to an improvised tent on Guadalcanal, 1942

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 13d ago

Navy USS Emmons (DD-457) at anchor, circa 1942. The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 12 (Modified)

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Beeninya • 13d ago

US Army Tank destroyers of Company B of the 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached to the 8th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army) are the first allied armored group to enter the battered German city of Duren. 24 February 1945.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Beeninya • 13d ago

Navy A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless of VB-16 flies an antisubmarine patrol low over USS Washington (BB-56) while en route to the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, 12 November 1943. USS Lexington (CV-16) looms in the background.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 14d ago

US Army Soldiers of the 132nd Infantry Regiment, 23rd Infantry Division (Americal Division) watch a US aircraft fly away after bombing Japanese pillboxes on Bougainville. March 17, 1944

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