840 Free Photos of Pacific Theater

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Dug in on the beach: Shallow foxholes dug and communications set up, (black rods in the foreground are antennas for portable radios), and the first wave of Marines to hit the beach at Saipan are there to stay.
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SC 184655-1 - Men of the 32nd Division are standing outside the Information and Education Tent at the Headquarters of the 32nd Division. Taytay, Luzon, P.I. 11 March, 1945.
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SC 270700 - Infantrymen of I Co., 20th Inf. Regt., 6th Div., advance up the side of a hill on the Kebayashi Line near Manila, Luzon, P.I.
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SC 396829 - Two members of the 129th Inf., 37th Div., eating C rations beside gravestones at Baguio Cemetary, Luzon, P.I.
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SC 270579 - Infantry troops marching towards the Mindanao River in pursuit of Japs retreating near the Fort Pikit Ferry, Mindanao Island. 22 April, 1945.
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SC 329679 - Soldiers of the 24th Infantry in New Georgia, man a 37mm gun used for beach against the enemy. 15 October, 1943.
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SC 271394 - Scene of I Co., 103rd Inf., 43rd Div., before going up to the final attack at the crest of Mt. Tenuan, Rizal, Luzon, P.I.
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SC 184760 - Major A. W. Beeman, QMC and Capt. M. R. Foster, S.C., inspecting wrecked Japanese landing barge on beach road in New Guinea.
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C-880 - Guns are kept clean and well-oiled on the island. Here three men sit in front of their tent and give their firearms a cleaning inspection. Aleutians.
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SC 364505 - AA battery sets on shore near [illegible], Luzon, P.I., as destroyer off shore fires on Jap targets in the rear. 12 January, 1945.
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Pigs forage in front of wrecked Jap tank knocked out by Marine grenade and bazooka fire. Another Jap tank is in background. 16 June, 1944.
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SC 364525 - Close-up view of the 40mm Bofors gun mounted on a half-track and getting ready to fire on the enemy.
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SC 364500 - Pvt. Harry Jacobs of New York City, N.Y., HDQ Troop, 1st Cavalry, makes final and cleaning of his personal revolver before invasion.
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SC 364415 - Papuan natives furnish Christmas entertainment for Yanks and Aussies by performing one of their native dances at Fort Moresby, New Guinea. 25 December, 1943.
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SC 335383 - Some of the men of the 120th F.A. which gave valuable support to the 112th Cavalry at Aitape, New Guinea.
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SC 166673 - Col. Edward A. Routheau, Provost Marshall, questioning men on the duties of an MP. Rockhampton, Australia. 26 November, 1942.
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SC 171524 - After supply trucks had bogged down in the coastal mud the tractors found that the hard bed of this stream afforded good traction. Attu, Aleutians. 1943.
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SC 334994 - Gen. J. Lawton Collins, CG of the 25th Division, scans treetops over which mortar fire must pass.
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SC 179455 - Two American soldiers going over the body of a Japanese soldier killed in the "suicide raid" in search of souvenirs. 1 June, 1943.
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Home after a raid: A Marine Grunman fighter plane comes home to roost at the Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands airfield after feeding the Japs hot bullets.
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SC 171521 - Signal Corps radio crew on transport maintaining contact with first wave as it lands on Attu, Aleutians. 11 May, 1943.
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SC 143724-1 - Tec Sgt. Hiroshi Mukaye, Los Angeles, Cal., …
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Carried on a stretcher by four buddies, a wounded American…
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Wounded Marines from Bougainville fighting are unloaded fr…
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An American Marine, in foreground, still clutches the knif…
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Dropped by Jap snipers' bullets on the beaches during the …
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SC 190494 - Brig General Thomas E. Rilea and Lt. Col. Mary…
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"It's hard going when you have to climb the ridges after t…
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A Jap prisoner who had been hiding in water alongside larg…
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SC 209066 - Men of Co. B., 165th Inf. Regt., 27th Inf. Div…
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Close by a landing party of Coast Guard and Marine invader…
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"Pete," the mascot, seems to scent the stern business of b…
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SC 190525 - Mortar crew of 164th Inf. Regt., Americal Div.…
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SC 212770 - Men of the 7th Div. using flame throwers to sm…
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SC 270892 - Patrol of the 3rd Bn., 161st RCT, 25th Inf. Div., goes up a creek bed in the Luzon mountains near Digdig. 12 March, 1945.
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SC 374824 - Patrol from the 164th Inf. Regt. starting out to set up an OP in Jap-held territory. Cebu island, P.I. 9 April, 1945.
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SC 171607 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. P-39 P-5 photo ship which was crashed into by Moth while landing at airfield. 4 January, 1943.
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SC 364611 - Soldiers from Co. A, 145th Inf., 37th Div., in position on a hillside where they had the Japs surrounded.
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C-842 - The airport control tower is located in this junked B-24. The control man stands in the space once occupied by the top gun turret. Alaska.
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SC 171605 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. P-39 P-5 photo ship which was crashed into by Moth while landing at airfield. 4 January, 1943.
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SC 166676 - Riflemen in an assault boat waiting for the signal to land during a night problem landing. Fitzroy River, Rockhampton, Australia. 19 November, 1942.
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SC 364522 - General view of Forward CP of "D" Co., 1st Bn., 511th P.I., 11th Airborne Div. Mt. Malapuno area, Luzon, P.I. 24 April, 1945.
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SC 196085-S - View of Leyte Island, P.I., shore line at invasion point. The smoke is from the naval bombardment. 20 October, 1944.
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Col. Franklin A. Hart (sitting) commander of the 24th Marines of Eufala, Alabama, talks over the frontline situation with one of his front line officers Major Fricke, Richmond, Virginia.
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C-846 - American military personnel encase a new shipment of extra gas tanks used by P-39s to give them further flying range.
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SC 184828 - Troops of the 163rd Infantry Regiment of the 41st Divsion are shown aboard a transport plane somewhere in New Guinea. 10 July, 1943.
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American troops, transferred from a Coast Guard-manned ass…
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Chow is served cafeteria style aboard a Navy warship en ro…
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SC 190565-S - S/Sgt Floyd A. Ott, Jerone, Idaho, of 41st D…
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Three soldiers, awaiting to board a combat-bound U.S. Coas…
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From a Coast Guard-manned LST, the sixth wave in the swift…
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F.J. Jayce, USN pilot, drinks fruit juice before going alo…
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Maj. Beatty, left, S-2, 7th Div., with a translator, right…
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SC 364512 - 50 cal. machine gun with a 75mm gun in background firing at the Japs on Hill 1445. Puerto Princese, Palawan, P.I.
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SC 171602 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. P-39 P-5 photo ship crashed into by Moth while it was landing in an airfield in New Guinea. 4 January, 1943.
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SC 334752 - A litter squad fords a stream with a wounded soldier on way to Battalion Aid Station, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 13 December, 1943.
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SC 364531 - 57mm and 75mm guns firing at Jap positions near [illegible], Luzon, P.I.
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SC 184767 - Capt. R. M. Martin of Saint Mary's, Idaho; Col. William Jackson of Portland, Oregon; at gun position in New Guinea.
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SC 364605 - A 40mm gun of the 251st CA (AA), 14th Corps, on Bougainville. In background can be seen Mt Bagana, 6560 feet, an active volcano.
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SC 166681 - Results of an attack on a dummy machine gun nest with hand grenades durign a demonstration given by an attacking platoon. Rockhampton, Australia. 27 November, 1942.
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SC 364509 - Pfc. Harry F. Scott, Jr., of Haledon, N.J., of Co. C, 1st Bn., 126th Inf., stages one man war on Limon, Leyte, P.I.
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SC 271381 - Troops of the 3rd Bn., 163rd, 41st Div., start moving towards Zamboanga after being pinned down for half hour by Jap mortar and artillery fire.
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SC 211453 - A Japanese general signs a "short snorter" bill for Lt. Phillip Long of McAllen, Texas, co-pilot of the first two boats to land on Korea. 10 September, 1945.
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SC 171604 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. P-39 P-5 photo ship crashed with the Moth while landing at an airfield in New Caledonia. 4 January, 1943.
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SC 364510 - Men of the Mortar Platoon, 126th Inf. Regt., 32nd Div., are shown firing the 81mm mortar on the Jap positions in in the Orboredo River sector, Luzon, P.I.
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SC 334885 - Men of B Btry., 163rd AAA Bn., grouped around the barrel of their 90mm AA gun named "Tojo Special".
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SC 270699 - Infantrymen of I Co., 20th Inf., 6th Div., advance up the side of a hill on the Kebayashi Line near Manila, Luzon, P.I. 14 March, 1945.
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SC 171606 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. P-39 P-5 photo ship crashed with the Moth while landing at an airfield in New Caledonia. 4 January, 1943.
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SC 196092-S - Sgt. Howard Preuss, Bronx, N.Y., one of the engineers, leads Filipinos who are being evacuated to Dulag, Leyte Island, P.I. 21 October, 1944.
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SC 170698 - Pvt. Floyd West, Pfc. Charles R. Cooper, and Pvt. Alex Williams are shown painting hand grenades. Australia. 27 October, 1942.
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SC 171605 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. P-39 P-5 photo ship crashed with the Moth while landing at an airfield in New Caledonia. 4 January, 1943.
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Bringing home the chicken: Pfc. Michael Sigal, Jersey City, N.J., and Pvt. Vincent Tavano, Bronx N.Y. swing a chicken as they head along railroad tracks toward a roasting pit.
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SC 170689 - Men unloading foodstuffs from row boat preparatory to carrying it thru jungle path, somewhere in New Guinea. November 13, 1942.
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SC 364578 - Lt. George Reed, Chicago, Ill., instructing Pvt. Donald J. Bartosh, Jackson, Minn., in the proper method of firing from behind a tree, during class on Cover and Concealment.
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SC 334745 - Infantrymen inspect a pillbox on Hill 260 where 570 Japanese died during the fierce counterattacks by the Americal Division. Bougainville, Solomon Islands.
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SC 270701 - Infantrymen of I Co., 20th Inf., 6th Div., advance up the side of a hill on the Kebayashi Line near Manila, Luzon P.I. 14 March, 1945.
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SC 270797 - An airstrike on the escarpment in Southern Okinawa where veterans of the 7th Inf. Div. are meeting heavy resistance as the Japs make their final defensive stand. 6 June, 1945.
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SC 405107 - The first step in the making of a batch of bread, the weighing out of the ingredients, is done by T/4 Clarence Benson of the 272nd QM Bakery on Kiska. 14 January, 1944.
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SC 171601-R - Overall view of part of new prison camp for Japanese prisoners as new prisoners move in. First Island Command, New Caledonia. 7 January, 1943.
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SC 166664 - Evacuation of wounded is sped up by the use of transport planes regularly flying between the advance clearing stations.
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Originator of the idea to use ox-drawn carts to haul ammo, water and medical supplies to U.S. Marines fighting fighting in the hills of Saipan where modern trucks and jeeps could not go...
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SC 364577 - 40mm gun position 199th AAA and AW Bn., Btry. C, Sec 4, located on the beach near the Torokina River, Bougainville.
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Several of these Coast Guardsmen never saw the "original" …
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Dad went along, when the three Vanskike boys went to war. …
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There's desperation in the face of this Marine as he summo…
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American troops, their landing boat 50 yards from the water's edge, wade ashore, rifles and other weapons carried overhead, joining the assault as reinforcements on beaches of Saipan, 1st day of the attack.
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SC 335380 - Veterans of Saipan, this group of heroes, members of the 27th Div., are shown in their Company Area at Espiritu Santu, New Hebrides, where the Div. is currently stationed.
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SC 364551 - Tricky procedure of unloading a 40mm Bofors from C-47 transport plane at Garbutt Field, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, at its most critical stage.
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SC 337247 - Jap medium tanks which head the convoy of 30 trucks, 8 tanks and 8 field pieces is shown knocked out by two bazooka shells.
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SC 374731 - U.S. soldier is forced to crouch low as enemy fire passes overhead just off one of the beaches on the east coast of Leyte island of the Philippines. 20 October, 1944.
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SC 184757 - 41st Div. fire their 105mm gun from emplacement under a native hut in New Guinea, on Jap frontlines.
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SC 171588 - At the fighting front two soldiers string wire for communications between the 127th Regiment Command Post and the 5th Portable Hospital of the 32nd Division.
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SC 166668 - A hospital unit treks along the front after landing from transport plane in New Guinea. 15 December, 1942.
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Corporal James F. Allen, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Allen, RFD 1, South Windham, Maine, holds a bleating kid found on Saipan. 7 August, 1944.
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SC 334757 - A patrol of the 129th Infantry, 37th Division, crosses the Piva River on the way back to the front lines on Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 21 January, 1944.
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SC 171592-R - Jap prisoners leaving temporary encampment for permanent prison camp just completed. First Island Command. 7 January, 1943.
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Cpl. William B. Johnson, 20, (866706), 1419 Galveston St., Laredo, Texas; Pfc. Derwood E. Pelton, 24, (476099), 814 So. Gevers St., San Antonio, Texas.
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SC 206489 - Men of 27th Division, U.S. Tenth Army, cross ponton bridge on Okinawa to assault heavily fortified Jap position.
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SC 196081-S - The loading of rations, small arms, ammunition, trucks and miscellaneous equipment aboard LSMs, LCMs and LCVPs at Sesalder Harbor, Los Negros, in the Admiralty Group. SWPA. 7 October, 1944.
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SC 270802 - Three riflemen of the 32nd Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, remain at a safe distance while a flame-throwing tank in the background sprays a Jap emplacement. 19 June, 1945.
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