World War II Photographs
Invasion of New Guinea. Oil dump ablaze as tanks thread their way up Pancake Hill. White Beach, Hollandia, New Guinea. 22 April 1944.
Infantry of 162nd Infantry Regiment, 41st Infantry Division, forming the first wave in the invasion of New Guinea, penetrating the jungle at the edge of the beach. White Beach, Hollandia, New Guinea. 22 April 1944.
Men of the 162nd Infantry Regiment edging along edge of island near Hollandia, New Guinea. 27 April 1944.
Private First Class Emil Raths, 2nd Battalion, Headquarters Company, 129th Infantry, 37th Division, attacking Jap occupied pillbox by flamethrower. At least 10 Japs were killed. Bougainville. 17 March 1944.
Inside a pillbox with Staff Sergeant Frank Ritter of the Hq. Anti-Tank 129th Infantry. Ritter, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, gets ready to fire on a spotted Jap sniper on Bougainville Island. 13 March 1944.
Private First Class Emil Raths, 2nd Battalion, Headquarters Company, 129th Infantry, 37th Division, looking into pillbox he has just attacked by flamethrower, Bougainville. 17 March 1944.
155mm guns of Sea Coast Defense, 3rd Marine Defense, firing on Jap positions during the attack on our perimeter. These guns were protecting our coastline before the Jap attack. 6 March 1944.
Major General Robert S. Beightler, CG, 37th Division, directing attack against Japs on an Infantry perimeter, Bougainville. 16 March 1944.
Tank attack with infantrymen following close behind with fixed bayonets on the perimeter of the 129th Infantry, 37th Division, Bougainville. 16 March 1944.
With the 37th Division in Bougainville -- This scene is typical here. The front lines are within a few feet of where Corporal Joseph Pluciniczak of Toledo, Ohio, talking over the field telephone; and Private Mike Toth of Bridgeport, Connecticutt, are manning a machine gun squad headquarters.
American dead, who fought the Japs on Hill 700, Bougainville, being carried on half-tracks to an American cemetery for burial. 13 March 1944.
A dead Jap lies as he was found in a trench, with a machine gun clip clutched in his hand. Bougainville. 13 March 1944.
Japs killed on the perimeter of Company F, 129th Infantry, 37th Division, Bougainville. 16 March 1944.
One of the many Japs killed on the perimeter of F Company, 129th Infantry, 37th Division, Bougainville. 18 March 1944.
American half-track.
Light tanks of 754th Tank Battalion going up Hill 700 on Bougainville in attempt to drive out Japs from pillboxes on top of hill. 9 March 1944.
This wounded Yank has just come off the fury of the initial assault of the Allies against German held France. He is being lifted into an ambulance for transfer to a fixed hospital. 14th port Southhampton, England. 8 June 1944.
These glider pilots, among the first to strike their boots on enemy held soil, fought their way back through German held territory, reached the beachhead, caught the first available evacuation boat back to England and returned to fly another. They are, left to right, Lieutenant Charles B. Ellington, High Point, North Carolina; Flight Officer Joe Gilreath, Fort Worth, Texas; Flight Officer Kenneth Ensor, Plano Illinois. Invasion of France. 8 June 1944.
View of a beach which was one of the Allied objectives on the coast of France, showing the masses of men and equipment being landed from the various landing-craft lying off-shore. Invasion of France. 8 June 1944.
Two members of a Medical Corps Unit help a wounded Paratroop Officer ashore from an LST at a port in England. Among the first wounded in the landing on French soil, he will be taken to a military hospital in England. 9 June 1944.
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