"1st Sgt. Orville Cummins, known as "Pappy," is from Spokane, Wash.--His A company played a major part" |
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"2D Lt. Robert Brown of Bellingham, Wash., taking it easy in a Jap camp chair and fanning himself with a Jap fan, led a platoon during the fight for Munda" |
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[After the Battle of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands] |
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[American soldier, half-length portrait, seated, facing left] |
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[American soldier holding tattered Japanese flag, standing among rubble, probably in the Marshall Islands] |
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"Blasted pillbox is inspected by a leatherneck whose rifle is ready should a "dead" Jap prove to be alive" |
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"Clarence Terry, platoon leader from Arco, Idaho [cle]ans his nails with a trench knife after the Battle at Hastings Ridge" |
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Enewetok, Marshal[sic] Islanders introduce their kids to the Yanks |
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"Ervin Bonow's helmet after Jap grenade hit it ..." |
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"A Jap in the open--Wounded he was left behind as his fellow soldiers withdrew ..." |
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A light machine gunner peers through the sun-flecked jungle, trying to locate a target, but the Japs, only some 50 yards away, are quiet |
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[Machine gun emplacement on Enimetok Island, March, 1944] |
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"Moving in--The Japs on the beaches taken care of, these Marines march off to see what's up ahead" |
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[Natives of Eniwetok Island, Marshall Islands, in fox hole and around tree, and American soldiers Feb. 1944] |
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One shot, 2004: |
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Operations against the Japanese on Arundel and Sagekarsa Islands |
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"PFC Fowler Hatley, Forney, Tex., was a construction worker as a civilian..." |
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PFC. Wiley Howington of Asheville, N.C., cleans the M1 he used in wiping out a Jap antiaircraft gun crew in a dugout at Munda |
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Pvt. James Newbrough of Monument, Colorado, probably saved his battalion when Japs tried a frontal assault. Sighting his machine gun ... |
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En route to the Marshalls, Sgt. Charles Blair of Vero Beach, Fla., sharpens edge of his combat knife |
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S/Sgt. LeRoy Norton, the ex-lumberjack from Bend, Oregon, who wiped out three Japanese in a machine-gun emplacement |
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"Sgt. Elmer McGlynn of Seattle, Wash., helped cut down six Japs with a BAR [Browning Automatic Rifle] when they tried to wipe out a machine gun covering his platoon's advance" |
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Soldiers of the Shamrock Battalion want to push ahead--Gilbert Islands, Makin Atoll |
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"Standing knee deep in salt water under the branches of a mango tree, a weapons company commander spots the bursts of mortar fire" |
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[This was no time to be choosey about the brand of your beer, the stuff happens to be Japanese] |
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"Twin-mounted dual-purpose naval guns were knocked out by shells before the first American troops landed" |
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"Two gunners get their light machine gun into place behind a fallen tree and wait to open up at the first sign of Japs in front of them" |
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Unusually sensitive photographs of American soldiers in combat action, a special selection for a memorial exhibition to Staff Sergeant John Bushemi |
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