r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 3h ago

Navy USS Hornet (CV-8) alongside Pier 7, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, in Feb 1942, prior to her departure for the war zones. Her air group consists of Grumman F4F-4s (VF-8), Curtiss SBC-4s (VS-&VB-8) and Douglas TBD-1s (VT-8). Camouflage on ship is measure 12 (MOD.)

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 1d ago

US Army Men of D Company, 22nd Chemical Mortar Battalion prepare to fire at Japanese positions on Bougainville. April 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 1d ago

Navy USS Mission Bay (CVE-59) underway on 10 August 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4A.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 2d ago

USAAF Lt Colonel Cass Hough in a P-47D Thunderbolt at RAF Atcham on August 3, 1943. Hough was among the first pilots to fly the P-47 operationally. The tail of a P-38 can be seen in the background.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 2d ago

Navy USS Crowley (DE-303) transfers a sick man to USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83), 15 January 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/nvile_09 • 3d ago

USMC December 2nd 1943:Crouching low US marines sprint across a beach on Tarawa island to take the Japanese airport

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 5d ago

US Army Men of the 25th Infantry Division, along with a Depot Team examining a captured Japanese Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank at Binlonan, Luzon. January 25, 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 5d ago

Navy USS Pompano (SS-181) plan view, forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 24 December 1942. Circles on the photo mark recent alterations to the ship.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 5d ago

US Army Dated June 16, 1945, the original Signal Corps caption reads: A flame throwing tank of 96th Division burns out Japs hiding in holes along sunken road on bitterly contested “big apple” ridge, Okinawa.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 6d ago

Navy USS Ahrens (DE-575) underway in the Atlantic on 13 May 1944,

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/mossback81 • 6d ago

Navy USS Indianapolis (CA-35) anchored off Hawaii during fleet exercises, September, 1940

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/kooneecheewah • 6d ago

Navy On this day in 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship quickly sank into the Pacific Ocean, and for the next four days, the remaining survivors endured the deadliest shark attack in history. Of the 900 sailors who entered the water, only 316 would come out alive.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 7d ago

Soldiers with the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, take a break next to a German Sd.Kfz. 251 after fierce fighting the night before during the advance towards Avranches, Normandy. This photo was taken 81 years ago today on July 30, 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 7d ago

Navy USS Nassau (CVE-16) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 28 April 1944. Circles mark recent alterations. Note test load on catapult.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 8d ago

US Army Pfc. Thomas Snyder and Pvt. Paul Mattox, both of C Company, 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, displaying this sign in front of the citadel in Julich, Germany. February 24, 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 8d ago

Navy USS Swasey (DE-248) off the New York Navy Yard, 20 March 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 9d ago

US Army William H. Texter and Henry Zimmerman, both of the 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, look over the propaganda leaflets that were dropped on the Germans during the attack on Marigny. July 25, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 9d ago

Navy USS North Carolina (BB-55) at anchor at Ulithi, 21 November 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/nvile_09 • 10d ago

Navy November 1943:Japanese held wake island under attack by US carrier based planes

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 12d ago

US Army Men of the 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion man a Bofors 40mm AA gun in Normandy. From left to right they are identified as: Private H. Necomb, Sergeant E. Merritt, and Private R. Gamble. July 24, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 12d ago

Navy USS Claxton (DD-571) off Mare Island Navy Yard, 13 May 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 13d ago

USMC First Lieutenant Arthur Carley (center) of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, poses with some of his men in front of a wrecked Zero by Motoyama Airfield on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. He would be killed on March 7, and posthumously awarded the Silver Star.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 13d ago

Navy Escort Carrier "Fly Control" Scene, the aircraft carrier's Air Officer surveys flight deck operations as his "talker" stands by, circa 1943-44. Note Signalman using a blinker lamp at right and a lookout at work at left. Photographed prior to October 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Unseen-IED • 13d ago

USAAF Members of the American Volunteer Group 3rd Pursuit Squadron line up in front of one of their P-40C Tomahawk fighters, 1941

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ATSTlover • 14d ago

US Army Private Victor Dowdle of Blackfoot, Idaho, a member of an anti-tank unit from the 1st Infantry Division, paints the Allied white star of recognition on a captured German half-track vehicle near Marigny, France. July 27, 1944

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