SC 374885 - Typical day of the many soldiers in Korea who observed Fat...
L-R: Sgt. Weston Yates, New Orleans, La.; Lt. Charles Roffe, Eugene, Ore.; Capt. Lloyd Rainey, Emporia, Kan., CO CO "M", 27th Inf. Regt.; Pfc. Robert Parrick, Depew, Okla. All men are members of Co. "M", 27th I... More
Marines pose with a Japanese flag they captured on Saipan. 20 July, 19...
Marines pose with a Japanese flag they captured on Saipan. 20 July, 1944.
Wounded Marine receives treatment aboard an LVT at Peleliu, 1944. (494...
Wounded Marine receives treatment aboard an LVT at Peleliu, 1944.
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العربية: مُشغل قاذف اللهب من السرية إ، الكتيبة الثانية، الفوج التاسع، فرقة مشاة البحرية الثالثة، يجري تحت إطلاق النار في إيو جيما. English: A flamethrower operator of Co. E, 2nd Bn, 9th Marines, runs under fi... More
Navy doctors and corpsmen administer to wounded Marines at an aid stat...
Navy doctors and corpsmen administer to wounded Marines at an aid station established in a gully on Iwo Jima.
SC 348677 - A group of Marine medics giving aid to a wounded Marine at...
Photographer: Cpl. Atlee E. LeMasters.
Marines struggle through mud to reach the front on Bougainville. (4968...
Marines struggle through mud to reach the front on Bougainville.
Officers of the 2nd Regiment discussing impending attack on Saipan. Ju...
Photographer: Cpl. E. G. Wilbert. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
Two keen-eyed Marines, watching the smoking sulphurous area on Iwo Jim...
3 March, 1945. Photographer: Sgt. P. Scheer. 127-GR-91-113028
Marines crawling under fire on the beach at Saipan. (49480223491)
It appears that one Marine is relieving another on the beach at Saipan, but they are really crawling, under enemy fire, to their assigned positions. The wet Leatherneck (closest to camera) took a ducking when t... More
SC 180534 - Casualties shown lying on stretchers aboard lighter, Munda...
SC 180534 - Casualties shown lying on stretchers aboard lighter, Munda Point, New Georgia
Machine gun team of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion in a flooded foxho...
Machine gun team of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion in a flooded foxhole on the Piva Trail.
Marine Raiders in training 2
A US Marine Corps Raider negotiates barbed wire on a training course. USMC ID #: 55237
Ignoring the heavy enemy fire in the area, Marine stretcher bearers ca...
Ignoring the heavy enemy fire in the area, Marine stretcher bearers carry a wounded Leatherneck to a foxhole aid station on the beach at Iwo Jima.
Marines, wounded in the battle for Iwo Jima, are sheltered in a Japane...
Marines, wounded in the battle for Iwo Jima, are sheltered in a Japanese concrete air raid shelter which was not completely destroyed in the three-day bombardment and aerial attack preceding the landing.
C-3026 - Field line telephones must be laid and kept in repair on the ...
Sgt. George Suskao, Pittsburgh, Pa., of a Signal Operation Bn., establishes communications in a recently-shelled area near the Siegfried Line. Germany.
Assault troops clearing beaches of animals left by retreating Japs. Sa...
Photographer: T/Sgt. Wm. Fitch.
Marines of the first wave, landing on the beach at Saipan, crawl forwa...
The first wave landed with little opposition, but had to fight down Jap opposition against the following waves. 15 June, 1944. Photographer not credited. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Sign... More
Marines at Red Beach 2. Saipan. 15 June, 1944. (52305144661)
Photographer: Furman. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
SC 207299 - A flotilla of small rescue boats gathers around an LST to ...
3 April, 1945. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive. Photographer not given.
Lt. Col. J. L. Chambers, Tobeck Ave., Washington, D.C., of the 25th Ma...
15 June, 1944. Photographer not credited. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
SC 348693 - Members of the 5th Marine Regt. move toward the Han River,...
Photographer: Sgt. Herbert Nutter.
"Butch", a Doberman Pinscher Marine War Dog stands guard as his partne...
"Butch", a Doberman Pinscher Marine War Dog stands guard as his partner, Pvt. Rez Hester, of Liberty, N.C., snatches a few winks in a sandy foxhole on Iwo Jima.
Equipped for any emergency, Marines hurdle a stone wall as they push a...
Equipped for any emergency, Marines hurdle a stone wall as they push across Okinawa.
Brigadier Gen. Graves B. Erskine, Commanding General of northern landi...
Photographer: T/Sgt. Wm. Fitch. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
Holding the bottle overhead, a Navy corpsman administers blood plasma ...
Holding the bottle overhead, a Navy corpsman administers blood plasma to a wounded Marine on the beach at Iwo Jima. Many lives were saved by the use of plasma in this operation.
Cpl. William B. Johnson, 20, (866706), 1419 Galveston St., Laredo, Tex...
29 June, 1944. Photographer: Williams.
Marine Private First Class Louis P. Hart, of 603 East Clementine St., ...
Marine Private First Class Louis P. Hart, of 603 East Clementine St., Philadelphia, Pa., takes cover behind a tree on Tinian.
Marines battle Japs across an open field on Saipan. The terrain offers...
Marines battle Japs across an open field on Saipan. The terrain offers little in way of natural protection or or camouflage, and the Marines' best bet is to drive the Japs back.
Wounded Marine gets first aid right on the front line during a skirmis...
Wounded Marine gets first aid right on the front line during a skirmish in the battle of Saipan. Note the expression of anguish on wounded Marine's face. This man died a few hours later.
1st Division Marines on the beach at Peleliu, 1944. (49479332043)
1st Division Marines on the beach at Peleliu, 1944.
CIDG unit training (Colorized)
CIDG Unit Training
127-N-71319 - Bougainville. Pfc. H.J. Finley and war dog Pfc. Jack att...
Finley's address is 819 W. Water St., Elmira, New York. Photographer: Pfc. P. Scheer. 8 December, 1943.
From a foxhole in the foreground, Marines fire at Japanese snipers hid...
From a foxhole in the foreground, Marines fire at Japanese snipers hidden in the wreckage of their planes on the Motoyama airstrip number one on Iwo Jima.
SC 151491- Pvt. Frank Rachew, displays one of the white phosphorus mor...
Pvt. Frank Rachew, Co. H. 35th Inf., displays one of the white phosphorus mortar smoke shells used for designation of targets. Photographer not credited. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Sig... More
Marines hug beach on first day. Saipan. 15 June, 1944. (52302969587)
Photographer: Cpl. J. Glozak. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
These three Japs are emerging from a cave at the bottom of an abandone...
They were photographed as they surrendered to their Marine captor Private First Class Harold E. Ackley. The Japs had been holed up for 17 days and decided to surrender when Marines nearby, unaware of their pres... More
This Fifth Division Marine was fighting in the front lines of Iwo Jima...
This Fifth Division Marine was fighting in the front lines of Iwo Jima when a Jap mortar shell landed beside him. Badly shocked, but still on his feet, he was hurried towards a behind-the-lines aid station by t... More
After a nine-day battle, U.S. Marines threw back the Japs on Tinian an...
After a nine-day battle, U.S. Marines threw back the Japs on Tinian and then pushed forward to take this village which shows marks of the fighting. A wrecked truck rests beside the road as the Leathernecks move... More
Columnist Ernie Pyle and some members of the 1st Marine Division rest ...
Columnist Ernie Pyle and some members of the 1st Marine Division rest by the road side on Okinawa, 8 April, 1945.
Marines attempt to question a civilian found in a dugout on Saipan. (4...
Marines attempt to question a civilian found in a dugout on Saipan.
Marines leading Jap civilian women and children to the rear, Saipan, J...
Marines leading Jap civilian women and children to the rear, Saipan, June 1, 1944.
SC 334745 - Infantrymen inspect a pillbox on Hill 260 where 570 Japane...
March, 1944. 23rd Infantry Division. Photographer: Bergmann. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
Infantrymen of the First Marine Division firing at Jap installation on...
Photographer: L.L. Giffin.
Dead 4th Division Marines are carried to the beach on Iwo Jima via str...
Dead 4th Division Marines are carried to the beach on Iwo Jima via stretchers.
Originator of the idea to use ox-drawn carts to haul ammo, water and m...
... was Sgt. Robert L. Bell, holding rope leading oxen, 22, from Mason City, Ill. Cpl. Richard Bremmer, 20, Sawyer Ave., Chicago, Ill., right, atop cart. 18 June, 1944. Photographer: Sgt. J. L. Burns.
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BAZOOKA TEAM – Marine riflemen and a bazooka team congregate their fire upon enemy snipers. The Japs took to the hills on Peleliu and in the jagged terrain forced the Marines to painstakingly search every goo... More
A wounded Marine receives a blood transfusion behind the lines on Iwo ...
A wounded Marine receives a blood transfusion behind the lines on Iwo Jima.
Arthur H. Clayton, a Navy corpsman on Iwo Jima, administers a blood tr...
Arthur H. Clayton, a Navy corpsman on Iwo Jima, administers a blood transfusion to a wounded Marine.
Determination written on their countenances, Marines start their drive...
Running at a crouch, they they dart across the table-land in the shadow of Mount Suribachi, taking advantage of the scant protection offered by small rises in the volcanic sand. Photographer: Warrent Officer Ob... More
Marine flamethrower operator at work on Iwo Jima. (49672564278)
Marine flamethrower operator at work on Iwo Jima.
24th marines wwii iwo jima
العربية: مشاة البحرية من الفوج 24 خلال معركة إيو جيما، 1945 English: Marines from the 24th Marine Regiment during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
SC 405064 - Saipan. Captured natives are guarded by MPs and given rati...
Photographer: Cordray. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
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The 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway walks alongside Marines, dressed in Korean War era uniforms, who carry a wreath to be placed in honor of the “Chosin Few" during a monument dedicat... More
*Group of Marines on Tarawa, some dressed in trophy Japanese uniforms,...
non-original caption. Original caption: "GROUP OF MARINES" Photographer not given. USMC Photo. 127-GR-123-64390
Coast Guard Combat Photographer Harold E. Whitwer, Chief Photographer'...
... of 4011 Fourth Street, Baltimore, Md., prepares to train his camera as he emerges from what is affectionately known as the "Okinawa Press Club". Whitwer was one of the many Coast Guard Combat Photogs. who t... More
Assault forces crouched and digging in on Saipan beach on 1st day of t...
Photographer: T/Sgt. Wm. Fitch. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
Combat correspondent Sgt. Charles R. Vandergriff, 24 Riddle Road, Cinc...
Photographer not credited.
Marine Cpl William Coffron fires at Jap sniper from behind a tree on P...
Marine Cpl William Coffron fires at Jap sniper from behind a tree on Puruata island.
Marine PFC Kenneth G. Crowley takes cover behind a fallen tree during ...
Marine PFC Kenneth G. Crowley takes cover behind a fallen tree during the first day of fighting on Cape Gloucester.
Marines use an ox cart to haul supplies on Saipan. (49487849583)
Marines use an ox cart to haul supplies on Saipan.
Three Leathernecks carry a wounded comrade to an evacuation point on I...
Three Leathernecks carry a wounded comrade to an evacuation point on Iwo Jima beachhead.
For these valiant Marines who have fallen in the battle for the island...
For these valiant Marines who have fallen in the battle for the island of Okinawa, Marine Private First Class George Channik, of 9955 Avenue M. Chicago, Ill., removes his helmet and pauses for a minute's rest.
Marines use a sling made of enemy leggings to remove the bodies of Jap...
Marines use a sling made of enemy leggings to remove the bodies of Japanese soldiers from the entrance of a dugout on Iwo Jima.
Marines struggle through mud to reach the front on Bougainville. (2) (...
Marines struggle through mud to reach the front on Bougainville. (2)
Direct frontal attack on Jap position by 3rd Battalion, 28th Marines. ...
Direct frontal attack on Jap position by 3rd Battalion, 28th Marines. Notice position of men, crouched under heavy Jap fire. They gained about 200 yards of open ground in assault, only about 30 dead.
General's son Lt. Col. A. A. Vandegrift, son of Marine Corps Commandan...
Photographer: Kauffman.
Marine wiremen repair telephone wire near the front line on Iwo Jima. ...
Marine wiremen repair telephone wire near the front line on Iwo Jima.
SC 151516 - The Army's new camouflage is worn here by Pvt. Bradigan an...
Co. H, 35th Inf., during 25th Division problems. Photographer not credited. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
These Marines of the Fifth Division never saw as much brass in their e...
Photographer: Sgt. L.R. Burmeizter. 127-GR-93-110604
Viewed through the window of a wrecked building, a Marine gun crew set...
Viewed through the window of a wrecked building, a Marine gun crew set up behind an abandoned enemy truck, fires at Japs hidden in the debris of the town of Garapan, administrative center of Saipan.
Exercise Desert Rock IV (Tumbler-Snapper Dog) 001
The atomic cloud formed by the detonation seems close enough to touch, and tension gone, Poth and Wilson do a little clowning for the camera. This was shot Dog of operation Tumbler-Snapper, during Desert Rock IV.
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Marines and Coast Guardsmen proudly display a Japanese flag, picked up by one of them during the capture of Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll, 19 February 1944. Note bullet holes in the flag, and helmet camouflage... More
Pvt. Robert K. Marshall and Cpl. Allen L. Griffin aim out of their has...
Pvt. Robert K. Marshall and Cpl. Allen L. Griffin aim out of their hastily-dug foxhole on Iwo Jima.
Tired and weary after days of slugging the Japs on Saipan, these membe...
Tired and weary after days of slugging the Japs on Saipan, these members of the famed Second Marine Division, veterans of Guadalcanal and Tarawa, move to the rear for a rest. The respite was short-lived and the... More
Handling the distribution of water on Iwo Jima are, (left to right); M...
Handling the distribution of water on Iwo Jima are, (left to right); Marine Quartermaster Sergeant Frank Writter, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Sergeant Edward M. Lipeki, of Mt. Thom, Mass.
USMC Okinawa Thompson
A Marine named Sgt. John Wisbur Bartlett Sr. of the 1st Marine Division draws a bead on a Japanese sniper with his tommy-gun as his companion ducks for cover. The division is working to take Wana Ridge before ... More
SC 184773-B - Battle-hardened members of a U.S. Army Special Weapons u...
L-R: Pvt. Jimmy Simon, Perkins, Calif.; Pfc. L. G. Taber, Indianapolis, and Pfc. C. E. Setzer, Newton, N.C. The latter is melting butter for the fudge, which the photographer insisted was excellent even though ... More
A Marine bazooka team in the ruins of Garapan, Saipan. (49479939413)
A Marine bazooka team in the ruins of Garapan, Saipan.
Major Thomas Gaines, of New Braunsfels, Texas in frontline foxhole wit...
Company B, 20th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division. (Thanks to Autumn Hendrickson for unit info) Photographer: Sgt. Theo Hios. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
Marines stand by to pick off Japanese soldiers flushed out of their po...
Marines stand by to pick off Japanese soldiers flushed out of their positions with explosives on Saipan.
Marines using rifle grenades, throwing hand grenades and "Molotov Cock...
Notice the torch in the center foreground, used for lighting the "cocktails" and the flaming missile in the hand of the Marine tossing it. These men fought for nine days before relief arrived and they could go ... More
SC 348827 - Lt. Fred J. Tees, Canal Town, Pa., of Air Tactical Sq. One...
Seoul railroad bridge crosses Han River in background. 23 September, 1950. Photographer: Cpl. Ronald I. Hancock.
Scene on Green Beach 2, at 0840, D-Day. Sgt. Matjasic was wounded whil...
Saipan. Photographer: Sgt. Matjasic.
This Marine blends well into the heavy brush around him as he hunts ou...
This Marine blends well into the heavy brush around him as he hunts out Jap snipers on Tinian island.
Normandycamof, Normandy, France
Private Joseph De Freitos of Yonkers (New York) of the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, 2nd US Armored Division, heats his rations on a stove. Interestingly he is wearing a two piece herringbone twill (HBT) cam... More
Fifth Division Marines on Iwo Jima carry a wounded comrade through tan...
Fifth Division Marines on Iwo Jima carry a wounded comrade through tangled undergrowth towards the comparative safety of an aid station.
Coast Guard Photographer George G. Twambly, center, Chief Photographer...
Twambly's home is at 70 Chandler Avenue, Staten Island, N.Y. U.S. Coast Guard Public Relations Photo. 026-g-088-046-001
Members of light tank crew pose in front of Jap plane revetment. (5143...
Tarawa. Photographer not given. 127-GR-128-64161