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Date: ca.1944

Title: "Water Buffalo" [amphibious tanks] line up for invasion of Cape Sansapor at the western end of Dutch New Guinea. In silhouette, Coast Guardsman Robert Campbell stands guard.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration



Date: March 1945

Title: Private First Class Angelo B. Reina, of Utica, New York, company A, 391st Infantry Regiment, guards a lonely Oahu beach position. Kahuka, Oahu Hawaii.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration








Date: October 20, 1944

Title: An american medium tank hit a Japanese land mine in surging forward to the Tacloban Air Strip during the early stages of the Philippines invasion on October 20. Here, one of the wounded from the wrecked tank is being bandaged by a medical corpsman.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration



Date: 1944

Title: Negro sailors of the USS MASON commissioned at Boston Navy Yard 20 March 1944 proudly look over their ship which is first to have predominantly Negro crew.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration








Date: June 6, 1944

Title: Landing on the coast of France under heavy nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration



Date: February 1944

Title: Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration







Date: February 23, 1945

Title: Flag rising on Iwo Jima

Source: National Archives and Records Administration


Date: ca.1942-1944

Title: Sergeant Norwood Dorman, Benson, North Carolina, stops to rest at the memorial to the Italian soldier of World War I, Brolo, Sicily.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration






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