What follows is the raw text from a RareAviation.com document available for download. This text can be helpful if you would like to confirm the document contains specific information you are interested in. Title: Eyes of the War - 400 Authentic Battle Photos of World War II Link: https://rareaviation.com/product/eyes-of-the-war-400-authentic-battle-photos-of-world-war-ii --- RAW UNFORMATTED TEXT BELOW --- EYES OF THE WR Vol. II A Photographic Report of World War II * * * 400 AUTHENTIC BATTLE PHOTOS from Dec. 7,1941 to V-J day, Sep. X1945 Americas Fighting Forces in the Pacific Theatre of War President's War MessageMr. Vice-President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and ot the House of Representatives: Yesterday, Dec. 7. 1941---a date which will live in infamy---the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solici- tation of Japan, was-still in conversation with its government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing In the American island of Oahu, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace. The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that many American lives have been lost. In addition. American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu Yesterday the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya. Last night Japanese forces attacked Hongkong. Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island. And this morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island. Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation. As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. Always will our whole nation remamber the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their rlgnteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend curselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, oui territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces---with the unbounding deter- mination of our people---we will gain the inevitable triumph---so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday. Dec. 7. 1941. a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire. TABLE OF CONTENTS Poge No. Japs attack Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1541 I- 9 Japanese invade the Philippines 10- 13 U. S. Marines invade the Solomon Islands 14-29 American troops land in North Africa, November 8, 1942 30- 38 Allied invasion of Sicily................................... 39- 44 Allied invasion of Italy....................................... 45- 60 U. S. battle of the Atlantic with German submarines 61- 64 U. S. troops lanji on New^uinea 65- 76 U. S. forces invade the Aleutian Islands 77- 81 American troops land on the Gilbert Islands 82- 84 American troops land on the Marshall Islands 85- 91 Conquest of Tarawa Island. 92- 96 Conquest of Saipan Island 97-107 U. S. troops invade the Palau Islands 108-1 10 U. S. forces in the China. Burma, India campaign 11 l-l 13 D-Day in the invasion of France, June 6, 1943 114-126 Battles in France, Holland and Belgium 127-142 U. S. troops advance into Germany 143-175 General MacArthur returns to the Philippines 176-195 President Roosevelt plans the defeat of Germany and Japan 196-197 Superfortresses bomb Tokyo, December 7, 1944.. ......... 198-200 American conquest of the Philippines ............ 201-215 American conquest of Iwo Jima 216-223 Battle for Okinawa ................... 224-225 Battle of the bulge in Belgium and Germany 226-236 Yanks battle for the Rhine 237-243 Yanks head for Berlin 244-263 German atrocities 264-269 Yalta Conference 270-273 President Roosevelt passes away April 12, 1945 274-276President Truman takes office.................................. 277 American and Russian forces link-up April 25, 1945 278-280 Mussolini slain in Italy, April 28, 1945 ................... 281-282 United Nations Security Conference, April 25, 1945 283-285Destruction in Berlin .......................................... 286 Nazi war criminals captured 287-288 Germany surrenders in Italy and Munich ;............. 289 German evacuation of Copenhagen 290-291 Germany surrenders on all fronts. . 292-297 Allies celebrate Germanys surrender 298-309 President Turmans Proclamation................................ 310 President Truman announces V-E Day............................ 311 A challenge to The future 312 ^rnntg-Btrtnth (fjangrws of the Snitcd States of America: at ttje jitBegun and held at the City of Waahington on Friday, the third W of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-oneJOINT RESOLUTION Declaring that a state of war exM> between the Im|M*rinl Government nf Japan and the Government and the people of the United State*and making prov:.si|>enal Government of Ja|an has committed unpro- voked acts of war apninM the Government ami the people of the United States of America: Therefore be it Rf'olr.ft by the Senate and Ifa* of Repre^enlatire* of the United State a of America in Congrrat a*embl.-d. That the Mate of war between the United States ami the Imperial Government of Japan which has thus been thrust upon the United Slates is hereby formally declared; and the President i hereby authorised ami directed to employ the entire naval ami military forces of the United States and the resource* of the Government to carry on war against the Ini|>rrial Government nf Japan; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by tl>* Congress of the United States.Speaker of the II ew^-ttcenth Confirm of flit Iraftd jftetti of ^atria; fit tfee ytart *thm Ba*m and held at the City of Waahrngton on Friday, the third 4? January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring that a Mate of war exists between the Government i Germany and tle Government and tlic people of the United State* and making provision to prosecute the Kame.Wherw the Government of Germany has formally declared war against the Government and the |>eople of tlie United States of America: Therefore be it Rcfolvcd by the Senate and Iluu*c of Reyce^riitatice- of the Unit'd State.! of America in Congrra aae.mlded. That the state of war between the United States and the Government of Germany which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally dedared; and the President is liereby authorised and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United Stato and the resource* of the Government to carry on war against the Government of Germany; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United ! tee.ie of Rcprteentativee.Vice President of the United State! and President of the Senate.// Jo my comrades of the 9th Snfantry ^biuision who yave their lives on the battlefields of Jorth---dfrica ---this hooh is dedicated.Formerly attached, Medical Corps Co. K 9th Infantry Division; North African Campaign (1942-1943) "Recipient of the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster" This body of a Japanese gunner was found inside a bomber shot down during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dec. 7. 1941.Body of a Japanese pilot floats face down in Pearl Harbor, after his plane was shot down by anti-aircraft guns. U. S. Navy seamen examine the wreckage of a Japanese torpedo-plane shot down at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor.This view of the decks of the U. S. S. Oklahoma which was severely damaged by dive bombers causing it to keel over on its side. Note bomb hole in foreground.While smoke rolls out of the stricken 31,800-ton U. S. S. West Virginia, a small boat rescues one of the battleships seamen (foreground). Two men may be seen on the super- structure (upper center). The most of the U. S. S. Tennessee may be seen beyond the burning West Virginia.While cables from the long-boomed cranes assist, the U. S. S. battleship California rises to the surface of Pearl Harbor, one of the sixteen ships raised after the Japs sneak attack. Air raid shelters are being built in all available spaces as protection against future air raids. This area was once a park and playground.A Japanese dive-bomber goes into its last dive as it heads towards the earth in flames over Pearl Harbor. After having been hit by naval anti-aircraft fire. The Japanese sneak attack on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, struck with blazing fury at the Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor, which is shown littered with wreckage. In thebackground an explosion sends a cloud of smoke and flame high into the sky.Hit by a Japanese bomb on December 7th, this U. S. Army Air Corps repair shop in the Hawaiian Islands continues to operate. The concussion blew out most of the glass,but the precious machinery was undamaged. This framework, at Hickham Field, is all that is left of an airplane hangar that received a direct hit. Tail of plane on right was shattered in same explosion. Wreckage litters area in front of hangar.This wreckage, identified by the U. S. Navy as a Japanese torpedo plane, was salvaged from the bottom of Pearl Harbor following the surprise attack by the Japanese. School is out indefinitely for these students os they watch the Lunalito High School burn after Honolulu was bombed on December 7, 1941.Young Hawaiians cluster about a sentry fixing barbed wire entanglements in Honolulu after the Japanese raids. 7 Here two soldiers use the cockpit of o destroyed army plane as a machine gun nest. The sandbags, table and earth protect them from flying bomb fragments.In the foreground the 31,800-ton U. S. S. West Virginia rests on the bottom of Pearl Harbor after the Jap attack on Dec. 7. 1941. Beyond tower the mast and superstructure of the U. S. S. Arizona, sunk by aerial torpedoes and bomb hits. Major Gen. F. L. Martin pinned Distinguished Service Crosses on Lieut. Geo. S. Welch, who downed four Japanese planes during the attack on Hawaii and Lieut. K. M. Taylor, who downed two planes. Services were held at Wheeler Field.These men in wheel chairs, each with a nurse and soldier aid, listen to the ceremonies at Hickham Field after receiving the Order of the Purple Heart for being wounded during the sneak attack. n The Harbor of Corregidor. guarding Manila Harbor is well fortified with entrance to a tunnel under a fort. This fort is one of many which held out against superior Japanese forces.Soldiers of Gen. MacArthur's forces are shown at a range-finder on Corregidor as a Jap aerial attack is in progress. Many of these boys are now prisoners of the Japanese.A. U. S. marine sergeant on Corregidor Island explains the workings of a cartridge magazine for a machine gun to Filipino soldiers. These soldiers played a heroic part in the defense of Corregidor.Several persons were killed in this Philippine area---Pasay, near Manila, where several homes were destroyed by some of the first Japanese bombs dropped on the Islands. The explosions resulted in the deaths among civilians. The surprise element did these Japanese aviators no good. They came out second best to U. S. forces who sbpt them down in an early phase of the raids on Manila. Here theyrest at Manila. P. I., after treatment for injuries.U. S. Marines defending Corregidor Island wax happily when a fresh batch of cigarettes arrives. These are some of the soldiers that made history with their heroic defense of "The Rock." Officers' quorters on Corregidor Island took a beating from Japanese bombs, last Dec. 29, leaving twisted girders and pipes among the rubble.One of the stone forts guarding Manila Bay. This one is near Corregidor. Note its resemblance to a battleship and its guns. Americon Indian troops of the "Bush Masters" who hold a flank position on Arawe Peninsula near New Britain. General MacArthur has more than 20 Indian tribes repre-sented among his troops on New Britain.Machine gun crew riflemen on beach at Namur, await orders to go up to front lines. It took the Leathernecks 24 hours to capture this important base in the Central Pacific. Invasion was preceded by heavy naval and air bombardment. Marines in Gen. Sherman tanks roll along a beach of Now Britain Island, shortly after the first landing. At the left is the bow of a landing barge, while in the background trucks roll onto the beach from landing craft.Marines and sailors pour water on a fuel dump fire on Bougainville. The fire started during a Jap air raid when a direct hit on the dump was scored. After thirty hours of battling it was brought under control. Allied soldiers pass supplies hand to hand from boat to shore as they take over the Treasury Islands in the Northern Solomons. The landing was made in the face of some two hundred Japanese.United States soldiers wounded during the invasion at Arawe, New Britain, are carried aboard on LC-T to be transported to a hospital at an advanced South Pacific base. Two LST's unload supplies and equipment for U. S. Marines and Army troops fighting the Japs on Bougainville Island in the Solomons. Tractors, trucks and bulldozers are beingrun through shallow water from the landing craft to the beach.Group of Jap prisoners looking sullenly at the camera, were captured in fierce fighting in the battle for the Solomon Islands. Most of the Japanese soldiers die rather than surrender. Flame thrower being readied to go into action on Guadalcanal, this weapon is very effective in capturing Japanese pillboxes.Pushing forward in the Solomon's Jungles this detachment of Marines seem to have the situation well in hand. Debris from Naval batteries litter this area. U. S. Marines on Guadalcanal sort out mail at this makeshift post office preparatory to issuing moil call. Letters mean a lot to Ameriacn fighting men.Paced by a rifle-carrying soldier, members of the U. S. Army carry a wounded comrade to a field station, from the battle of Grassy Knoll, on Guadalcanal, in the Solomons. 19 Equipment must get to the front lines without delay so these Marine Engineers rush construction of a crude bridge over one of the countless streams in swampy Bougainville.Firing almost point blank at the Japs well dug in on the Admiralty Islands, an Amer- ican gun crew blasts away with a captured Jap heavy naval gun. All guns captured intact were used on the enemy. This glum looking Jap was the pilot of a float plane shot down by a PT boat in the Solomons. He allowed himself to be captured by the crew of the PT boat and is wearing a poncho given him by the PT skipper. He was taken from the water sans clothes.This is the champion field artillery outfit in the Solomons. One member is shown here marking up another victory over the Japanese while other members of his battery look on. Hard-fighting U. S. Marines, who only stay in one place in the Southwest Pacific long enough to take it away from the Japs, rest on the beach of a captured island as their equipment is loaded in landing craft (upper left) for the attack on another Jap-held area.Here is one of the first boats preparing to land on Bougainville. Note the tenseness on faces of these marines as they near the beach. 22 A batch of doughnuts for the fighting leathernecks who parfcipated in the capture of Mundo airfield in the Solomons is prepared by a Marines detail in an open air kitchen. Sinkers add something extra to field rations.Pvt. Harry Emmack (left), Long Beach, Calif., and Pfc. Howard E. Riller (right), Portland, Ore., are alert and rifles ready at an American outpost as Pfc. Floyd Chambers (center), Long Beach, Calif., puts the finishing touches to their protective covering. A U. S. Morine wearing a Japanese sword and canteen is pictured with three members of the native police force on Guadalcanal. The Marines report that the natives welcomedthem and assisted them in every possible *ay, saying that they had been harshly treated by the Japs.These dogs are members of the K-9 group, shown ready to spring into action against the Japs on Guadacanal. Many a marine owes his life to these canine heroes. During the invasion of New Britain at Arawe, the jeep at right slipped from its narrow and rocky road into the water. But the Americans go about their work of unloading their small landing boat, knowing the jeep can take a ducking.A Japanese tractor, abandoned when the enemy fled from Kolombangara Island, was immediately put to work by this Morine engaged in clearing up the debris caused to enemy installations on the island in the Northern Solomons by constant American air and ground for forces bombardment. Marines on Guadalcanal look at where a road was. until the rains came. Now it s a river. Twenty-four hours of sun. however, will make it a road again, although it won't be in verygood condition.Allied soldiers in the Central Solomons area relax on a landing barge, captured from the Japanese on New Georgia Island. The barge is believed to have been used by the Japs to haul troops and equipment. From RareAvlation.com Borroge balloons scan the Empress Augusta Bay area, as U. S. forces pour out of LSTs (Landing Ship, Tanks), to reinforce their comrades on Bougainville.A Japanese soldier (Bandaged legs, left center), captured during the invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, helps Coast Guardsmen swab the deck of an LSI (Landing Ship, Tanks), enroute to a base camp for prisoners. Army troops ore shown here, unloading their portable dark room from a Landing Craft. All necessary photographic equipment is contained in the trailer.Wounded in action on Guadalcanal, a U. S. Marine is carried aboard a landing barge pulled up on the beach of the island in The Solomons. Mcrine snipers move cautiously through the jungle toward a Jap-held airport. They are resting for the moment while a Jap sniper's nest is being demolished by other marines a tew yards in front of them.. Marine officers question a Jap prisoner on Guadalcanal. He is one of the first Joo prisoners taken alive on this island. '* American soldiers examine tail of a German Heinkel captured intact on "D" day November 8th. in the invasion of North Africa.U. S. Fliers at an air base in Tunis are very proud of this the main decoration to their "landscaping." Ifs the skeleton wreck of a German plane. The Yanks over there like to have their pictures made in wrecks, as pictured above. From RareAviation.com jq American soldiers, with rifles in readiness, escort a group of Axis prisoners back of Allied lines after a battle in Tunisia.American officers look over an Italian 77-mm. high velocity gun, a new type weapon which has been very effective against Allied armor in Tunisia. This gun was put out ofaction near Kasserine Pass by the gunner of a U. S. M-4 tank whose shell struck the breech and killed the entire enemy crew. This U S. Navy dive-bomber uses a road as a runway near Safi, French Morocco, but hits a soft shoulder on the take-off. Safi was the initial landing po.nt on November Sth,1942.Having driven bock heavily armored German and Italian troops in a counter attack in the Kasserine Pass, Tunisia, these U. S. soldiers salvage enemy equip-meni on the battlefied. Two Sermon soldeirs frying to escape from a beach in North Africa, were strafed by American fighter planes. From their positions, note the suddenness of the planes attack.Being hauled from Algiers bay is this mess of junk that was once a Junkers-88 plane, felled by anti-aircraft fire during an axis raid upon the North African city.J/A.Pictured here are a group of German infantrymen captured in North Africa. They are undergoing a processing and inspection.^In one of the U. S. Flying Fortresses in Tunisia, the waist gunner, Sgt. Horace E. Moore, of New York City, keeps his machine gun ready as his craft nears the target. Note whatappears to be a second gun on the opposite side of the fuselage.On reconnaissance for an artillery battalion operating in the El Guetar sector of Tunisia with other U. S. forces are Pvt. Everett Odell of Waltham, Mass, (left) and Staff Sgt. Dorsey Roberts of Corpus Christi, Texas. Sgt. William Motcooff (left), of Granite City, III., and Pfc. Gordon Brown (right), of North Brattleboro, Mass., sort bulk mail for the soldiers as it arrives at a U. S. base post office in North Africa.United States tanks recently landed at Oran. Algeria, are being fitted for combat at a tank camp. Soon they will be rushed to the Tunisian front. Some will be turned over tothe British. Badly battered German Mark VI tanks are pictured in a graveyard of German tanks that have been knocked out of action by the advancing Allied Army in Tunisia.One of two American soldiers wounded by bomb fragments while on patrol on the Tunisian front, is carried into a portable operating truck from the amphibious jeep in which he was transported from the battlefront. German prisoners here are taking from an Allied ambulance a wounded Nazi soldier who was struck by machine gun fire when JU-88 planes strafed the ambulance on a road in Tunisia despite the clearly marked Red Cross on the side.Among the enemy tanks which fell into American hands when the U. S. forces counter- attacked in the Kasserine Pass, Tunisia, was this Italian machine. The Yanks are checking it carefully for booby traps. 38 Allied soldiers stand waist deep in water as they pass along stores from landing craft, during the first day of the Sicilian invasion. In the foreground soldiers are preparing beach roads.While the landings on Sicily didn't meet the opposition expected, a few Axis planes did break through and the bombs they dropped near these Coast Guard-manned invasion ships were entirely too close for comfort. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., quizzically surveys the business section of Gela, Sicily, as he is driven through in his command car. General Patton landed with the first troops on Sicilian soil.Allied troops march through a Sicilian town as the populace calmly watches during the Allied invasion of Sicily. Note the amount of equipment carried by American soldiers in the Sicilian campaign. 4a Waving happily, American artillerymen ride along a north coast Sicilian road toward Messina in their truck hauling a 155mm. gun as they move up to a new position from which to blast at retreating Axis troops.An American fighter plane lands after a sortie over the front lines in Sicily and immedi- ately is serviced from a "Duck, two-and-a-half-ton amphibious truck, which brought the gasoline and shells from an invasion ship. American soldiers on Sicily examine the wreckage of a Stuka, German dive bomber, shot down on the Italian Island. The body of the German pilot is in the foreground.Amid ruined buildings and through streets filled with wreckage, former Axis soldiers walk to a prison compound established by Allied soldiers after the fall of Pantelleria, Italy, the garrison surrendered after Allied bombing, An American sailor wounded in action against Sicily is lowered over the side of a U. S. ship somewhere in the North Atlantic. Note how carefully other sailors handle the metal stretcher in guiding it onto the landing.Pictured here is a German Junkers transport, wrecked on a captured airdrome in Sicily. This is one of the few German types of plane made of corrugated metal. 44 An American tank brought in. by the LST's, rolls inland to assist the infantry which landed previously in the invasion of the Italian mainland.Lieut. General Mark Clark, U. S. Commander of the Fifth Army, chats with gestures as he rides ashore on a landing craft at the Salerno, Italy, beachhead.45 American troops stream into Anzio. Italy, already crowded with troops and refugees from Northern Italy, crowding the town in a manner that would have pleased the town s pre-war merchants.A Spitfire plane forced down on the beach at Paestum. Italy, in the mainland invasion fighting is examined by U. S. Coast Guardsman and a soldier. Three Swastikas painted on the plane, indicate it scored thrice. .. Entirely unmarked by battle, powerful units of the Italian fleet, seized by the Allies without having fired a shot, ride at anchor in Taranto Harbor, Italy, before their transfer to Malta. In foreground is an Italian midget sub.Wreckage of ships and harbor installations at Naples, Italy, remained after the Germans gave way to the Allied Advance. Some of the wrecked ships in the harbor had been scuttled, others sunk or damaged by Allied bombing. 47 Pictured here is a blown-out bridge, the bogging down of a 90mm. anti-aircraft gun, which has partially slipped off what is being used as a road, and a 2/2-fon *nick in theforeground managing to squeeze through.These four German soldiers gave themselves up to Allied troop: who found them hiding in Scafati, near Pompeii. One of them, supported by comrades, was wounded bygunfire. 48 e An American Red Cross Clubmobile girl, Marjorie Buchanan, is flipping some of her wares to Lt. York, commanding officer of a "crash boat." They fed doughnuts to the crew and officers in a cold rain, somewhere in Italy.Italian soldiers and civilian workmen get busy with shovels and baskets as they clean volcanic stone fragments and dust from the street of a town in the San Guiseppe area of Italy. 49 Over rugged country in the Venofro sector in Italy. American infantrymen tug at and conjole with these mules carrying 81mm. mortars to the front for use against the Germans.In the curve of a rood near the pass of Butera, Sicily, Italian soldiers lie in death, the victims of American Rangers, who made this the end of the road for the detenders. 50 This photo, which reached New York from Lisbon, describes it as showing a heavy German infantry gun, mounted on caterpillar wheels, prepared for attack against the Allies in the vicinity of Carroceto, Italy.This tangled wreckage is all that remained of five American trucks after they were hit by a German bomb in Anzio, Italian port city through which supplies go for Allied beachhead south of Rome. ki Allied engineers work with o crane and dump trucks to clear away debris from bombed buildings in Naples, the aftermath of the fleeing Germans and advancing Allied armies.When subjected to heavy artillery pounding while directing traffic near the Gustav Line, north of Cassino, Italy, a military policeman took to a dugout. 52 Crosses in o cemetery at Naples mark the graves of German soldiers who committed suicide in Italy. Niches in the wall contain the bones of Italian citizens, revealed when a bomb blast tore away the wall.Troops of the American Fifth Army move up through a field still hazy with the smoke of battle in the Italian Area. In the foreground a German tank is nosed into a ditch. 53 Burned and battered railroad rolling stock was all that remained in railroad yard at Villa Literno after the war in Italy had passed the area by.Pictured here are the first contingent of Army Nurses to land in Italy. Note the chivalry of American soldiers in their assistance in bringing the nurses' equipment to shore. Or are they working under orders? 54 This is a scene in the street outside a Naples post office in Italy. Soldiers are administering first aid to those wounded when a Gorman time bomb exploded in the building.Some American soldiers get to work opening Christmas packages from home, some- where in Italy. Too cumbersome to be carried around until Christmas Day, Christmas packages to men overseas are opened as soot as they arrive. This 105mm. gun, mounted on a M-4 tank, is fired at an enemy objective in the moun- tains in northern Italy at the beginning of the Gothic Line. Soldier with telephone gets results from a "spotter" and makes necessary corrections.A soldier looks at the damaged front of a jeep in which two Fifth Army patrolmen escaped possible injury or death in Italy when an enemy shell passed through the vehicle from the rear to the front. el An Allied tank rolls along a street in Mignano, Italy, which was captured by the Allies in iheir drive up the Italian boot. German troops felled trees across roadways to impede the Allied advance.Yanks examine Italian book treasures looted from the University of Naples and abandoned by the Germans near Minturno, Italy, during their retreat. The volumes were almost all unharmed. r7 Advancing northward in their drive toward Rome, troops of the Allied Fifth Army are halted in a street in Naples while natives rush clearing of debris to open path wide enough to permit passage of vehicles.Three American soldiers, part of the Allied invasion forces that landed below the Italain capital, read a German newspaper*in a shanty on the beach at Nettuno. Noodles were cooking on the stove when the Americans arrived. This hoppy Italian family is sharing its meal of polenta, a cornmeal dish rare in Italy, with two U. S. soldiers.Another German soldier, for whom the war ended when the Americans captured Santa Maria Infante, Italy, in the Current Allied offensive, is led to a detention camp behind the front. 59 From RareAviation.com Natives of New Guinea help American soldiers remove a Jap Zero from the field at Loe. Much equipment and supplies were abandoned by the retreating Japs. Several ot the Zeros will be repaired for study by American pilots.Pfc. Everett Peterson, of Green Bay. Wise., examines a captured Japanese machine qun in a bunker near Simemi Creek, in the Buna sector of New Guinea. 60 An unidentified Military Policeman guards a group of German prisoners captured by American-Canadian raiding parties in the fighting sector in Italy.American troops examine a German 20mm. air-cooled, clip-fed piece mounted on a turntable attached to a truck which was captured in perfect condition in Italy. Yanks have already painted a star on side of vehicle. Three survivors of the U. S. S. Rowan, destroyer sunk in Italian waters as a result of an underwater explosion, while taking part in the mainland invasion push, await medicalattention in the sick bay of the rescue ship.Crewmen of a Nazi sub caught in the Atlantic by planes of the baby carrier U. S. S. Card, abandon their conning tower gun to don life belts and get life rafts overboard. They gave up without firing a defensive shot. Surfacing offer a depth charge attack, this Nazi sub, which tried to sneak into the midst of an Atlantic Convoy, has its conning tower blasted open by gunfire from theU. S. Coast Guard Cutter, Spencer.Blasted by bombs and strafed with machine gun fire, this Nazi U-Boat rolls in the waves helpless to fight back against attack from the planes of the baby carrier U. S. S.Card. Crewmen here abandon ships. Two U S. Coast Guardsmen scan the sea in a ceaseless vigil while their tired mates take a hurried catnap at the base of the gun mount. The Coast Guard convoy cutter is in a state of constant alert.Here a load of bad news for the German U-boats is hoisted aboard a U. S. Navy bomber preparing to take off from a Caribbean base. From this base patrol bombers and scouting squadrons roar out to sea by day and by night. 64 A survivor from the U. S. S. Borie is helped out of a sling onto the flight deck of the U. S. S. Card in mid-Atlantic.With three men already drifting away from their sinking sub (right), a fourth Nazi U-boat crewmen (circle), treads water as others on conning tower rush launching of pneumatic life rafts. ^5 Members ot o U. S. Army unit unload a Piper cub plane to be used tor artillery observation after their unopposed landing on the beach at Saidor, New Guinea.Five Coast Guardsmen, a gun crew from an LSI, stand, on the alert beside their 20mm, anti-aircraft gun mounted in a sandbag foxhole. Jap raiders have been detectedoverhead and the mon are ready to give them "the works." 66 United States soldiers had armed guards to keep watch for lurking Japs as they lined up for chow at dinner time somewhere in New Guinea. These fighters stand to their guns even when eating.Remains of a Jap machine gun nest and gunner which tried to stop American advance on New Guinea. The gunner was killed by a well placed hand grenade. Surrounded by tall Kunai grass, Sgt. Don Green, of Coldwater, Mich., drinks water from his canteen as he awaits the word to attack the Japs from his foxhole on the Buna front, New Guinea.A Japanese truck, bullet-riddled and overturned, falls into the hands of the American forces near Giropi Point, near the Buna battlefront in New Guinea. 68 Bodies of Japanese soldiers lie near a beached landing barge on the western beach of Buna Mission, New Guinea, one of the last points of enemy resistance to be smashed in the recently completed Allied campaign in Papua.American soldiers look at a shell hole containing bodies of seven Japanese dead somewhere on New Guinea. The Japanese were felled by Yankee grenades.69 Pilots of a P38 fighter squadron sit around in a tent awaiting their turn for patrol duty in Port Moresby. New Guinea. They play cards, or listen to the radio or phonograph to pass the time away.Men of the U. S. 32nd Division task force examine trophies during a brief rest period after the capture of Buna. Men in the foreground are looking at a mission bell theypicked up. 70 A perfectly-formed smoke ring" hongs in the air after a U. S. Navy cruiser fires at Jap positions in the Pacific area off New Guinea.American soldiers and native boys examine a captured 75mm. anti-aircraft gun in New Guinea, while an Australian takes advantage of the "time out" to brew a cup of tea. American forces occupying Lae, once a Jap stronghold on the northern coast of New Guinea, found this wreckage of enemy aircraft. The base had been subjected to softening-up attacks by Allied airmen.American soldiers are shown here at their rangefinder during a bombing by Jap planes. A near hit has splattered them with mud. Two American soldiers of the 32nd division cautiously fire into a Japanese dugout before entering it "for inspection during the drive in the South Pacific, which resulted in a rout of the enemy at this point.When Allied ground forces moved in to occupy Lae on New Guinea, they found these wrecked Jap planes near the airstrip, aftermath of the pounding dealt out by Allied airmen. 73 Native stretcher bearers rest in the shade of a coconut grove as they and the wounded American soldiers they are carrying from the front lines at Buna. New Guinea, take the opportunity to relax.An antiaircraft unit digs in along the beach at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. After the initial landing, the guns are immediately set up for action to protect the boa*s in thefollowing waves. 74 The Navys PT boats have played an important port in the campaign to cut off and seize Japanese strongholds in the South Pacific. The small boats require little in the line of installations.Second Lt. Joseph Guidry, Breaux Bridge, La., gets a haircut in New Guinea from C. Alderson of Sydney, Australia. Goodoo, a Papuan clean-up boy, sits in front of the shop. Pfc. D. P. J. Coffey, 19. of New City (left) and Pvt. R. R. Scarangelli. of Astoria, N. Y marine anti-aircraft gunners, inspect a Jap dual, purpose three-inch gun fringing the Mundo airstrip.A battery of self-propelled mortars fires a salvo at Japanese positions on Biak Island, off the coast of Dutch New Guinea. Soldiers cover their ears to protect them from the blast. Col. Frank Culin of Tucson, Ariz. (left), thumbs the edge of a sword taken from a Jap officer in the Holtz Bay action on Attu while Capt. L. H. Methias of Fresno. Calif., his chief of staff, watches.A crude message in a strange admixture of bad English and German was scrawled in giant letters on the wall of a Jap commanding officer's headquarters, for the Americans who occupied Kiska. 77 From RareAviation.com There's nothing ultra deluxe about this meal or its preparation for four U. S. sailors in the Holtz Bay area of Attu Islands. However, the food is hot and the company congenial.A U. S. plane that was snowed in, is now ready for flight in the Aleutians, note Yanks securing a bomb under the wing. ?g Warmly bundled in heavy clothing to ward off Arctic cold, a U. S. officer (left) stands on Attu Island beach directing landing operations with the aid of a powerful mobile loudspeaker while troops (background) pile stores brought by truck.The gun crew of this Yank 105mm, gun keep it firing on Jap positions in Chicagof Bay on Attu in the Aleutians. In four days this gun belched more than 2,000 rounds of ammu- nition into Japs. / A wrecked float-type Zero was the cheering sight for U. S. soldiers landing at Holtz Boy, on Attu, in their drive to oust the Japs. The plane had been machine-gunned by attacking U. S. planes.Yanks examine a partially dismantled Jap anti-aircraft gun on a hill at the head of the west arm of Holtz Bay on Attu Island, one of the strong Jap positions taken by the Americans. 80 This sign on Attu Islond points out that the Japanese capital is closer than San Fran- cisco. Jeep riders also ore warned of their last chance for "dancing, beer and hardtack.American soldiers in the Aleutians find the above position of a dead Japanese aviator much safer than flying overhead. Ground crew preparing incendiary bombs to be dropped on the Island of Makin in the Gilberts. Plane in the background used this aircraft carrier as its base.Coast Guardsmen and Marines give a jeep the heave-ho onto solid ground after it came off the LST (Landing ship tanks) (right) onto the beach in the Gilbert Islands. Two Americans, members of the famous New York "Fighting 69th" of World War I fame, fire over the body of a dead Japanese from their foxhole during the invasion of Makin in the Gilbert Islands.American soldiers view bodies of dead Japanese where they fell behind the first tank trap the Yanks encountered when they landed on Red Beach, during the occupation of Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. gg Coost Guardsmen from one of the invasion barges which took troops to Makin Island inspect the bodies of Jops killed during the American invasion and capture of the island.American soldiers view the bodies of Japanese killed when they resisted Yanks invading the Makin Island strongpoint held by the Japanese in the Gilbert Islands. The Japanese crew in this machine-gun nest was dismembered and scattered when the Marines scored a direct hit.Marine Corporal Elmer R. Burkhalter of Buhl, Idaho, destroys a Jap building on Namur with a flame thrower. These were used most effectively against the Japs in the Kwajalein atoll during the Marshall Islands invasion. The bulldozer is an invaluable aid in any invasion. Here, a bulldozer aids in the un- loading of an LCM (landing craft, materiel) at Roi during the Marshalls invasion.From a | . palm tree trunk on the Roi Beach the American Flag flies, symbol of the American victory in capturing the Jap's Marshall Island airbase. The scene was the day after the battling Marines landed. Jap prisoners stripped of their uniforms squat in a coast guard-manned landing craft as they leave an Island in the Marshalls, where they were captured during the successfulAmerican invasion.A splintered palm on Namur makes a good telephone pole as Marine Pvt. Daniel L. Cuccenello of East Orange. N. J., strings vital communications wire on desolated Namur in the Marshalls. g7 From RareAviation.com Pvt Carl Lingley, of East Port, Me., a medical first aid man, gives a wounded Japanese prisoner a drink from his canteen after dressing the prisoner's wounds during the battle for the Marshalls.This is all that remained of a three-story brick blockhouse on Namur Island in the Marshalls after American warships, artillery and airplanes ended their concentrated attack. oo U. S. Tanks corn ashore to participate in the wresting from the Japanese of their stronghold at Enubuj Island in the Marshalls. They were part of the U. S. Army Seventh Division Forces.Yanks advancing with light tank against the Japanese at Enubuj Island in the Marshalls. Note huge shell holes at right of tank. A U. S. Marine shown digging a foxhole on Namur Island in the Marshalls prior to its capture by U. S. forces. Shattered block houses and equipment are in background.U. S. Army, 7th Division Infantrymen, advance on Kwajalein as Japanese installations burn in the background. Note debris from naval bombardment littering the area. American troops take a brief rest on a beach close to Kwajalein Island in the Kwajalein Atoll of the Marshalls, after the successful assault on Japanese forces.Weary and begrimed after two days and two nights of fighting in the conquest of Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshalls, these Marines rest and drink hot coffee aboard an assault Transport. Led by a U. S. Marine with a wounded hand, another group of fighters charges from shore around opened barbed wire entanglement to battle firmly entrenched Japs m pill-boxes on Tarawa.Bodies of three Japanese soldiers, caught by U. S. Marines with flame throwers lie among wreckage on Tarawa Island. Bodies of Japanese soldiers, killed in their field kitchen on Tarawa Island when U. S. Marines took the atoll from the enemy, are viewed by Marine Pfc. F. N.-Barnes, Miami, Fla.Trees around this Japanese pillbox on Tarawa Island were blasted by American bombardment. The beach fort was demolished by raiding Marines. U. S. Marines pause for a drink of water from their trailer-tank during fierce fighting when the Marines landed on the Japanese-held Tarawa Island.Battered and burnt out. this American tank tipped over toward one side amid shattered oil drums. This is mute evidence of the fierce fighting U. S. Marines engaged in for possession of Tarawa Island. Japanese dead lie in and on what remains of their pillbox on Tarawa Island, note bodies strewn over enemy fortifications. Other Japs were burned alive inside.Dead Japanese soldiers are strewn over the sands of Tarawa where Marines won a bloody victory from the Japanese. Bodies and bits of wreckage attest to the fierceness of the struggle. Q, In the midst of deotn and destruction after the desperate fighting on Tarawa Island, a Marino makes friends with a lonely kitten. Here in the shade of a wrecked tank, he shares his water with "Kitty.Wounded Marine on a stretcher (center) is given treatment at a first-aid station set up in the jungle. Medical equipment is in the background.96 These Marines are crawling under enemy fire to their assigned positions. The wet Leatherneck (closest to camera) took a ducking when the landing craft he came in on was hit by Jap mortar fire.Advancing marines press forward their relentless attack against the Japs on Saipan Island, unmindful of the enemy dead strewn over their path. 97 A marine sharpshooter, crouched behind a blasted foundation, picks off the crews of Jap tanks as they fled their blazing vehicles in a Saipan field during a desperate battleto stem the American advance.U. S. Army Infantrymen, aided by flame thrower, attack a Jap pillbox which was preventing them from advancing. These Marines were part of the initial wave to landon Saipan. 93 American soldiers and Marines advance into the hills on Saipan Island under cover of an artillery piece (foreground), in pursuit of retreating Japanese.i q .vRushing through a Saipan cane field, a U. S. Marine carries a badly wounded buddy over his shoulder as he dashes for safety from Jap machine gun fire.Wounded in the early stages of the Saipan invasion, this Marine is given blood plasma close to the front lines while several other stretcher cases are being set up to receivesimilar treatment.Wreckage and dead Japs otter advance of U. S. Army troops, are all thatt isi left' of a Jap artillery position, otter a direct hit by American guns. In background is a knocked out Jap tank. | 00 This is oil that remained of a big sugar refinery on Saipan in the Marianas after American bombers had been working on it. Two Army infantrymen trudge by on theirway to the front line.U. S. Marines landing on Saipan Island with tank support, meet heavy Jap fire on the beach. Yank at center has apparently been hit and is falling forward from a kneeling position. Other Yanks flatten themselves on the ground near the tank for protection. A group of U. S. Marinos protect their machine gun emplacement with sand bags at the outskirts of Garapan, capital of Saipan Island in the Marianas.American soldiers (left foreground) stand amid the wreckage of planes and buildings of what was the Jap seaplane base at Tanapag on Saipan in the Marianas. 102 Leaving a cloud of dust behind, a U. S. Marine Corps tank rumbles over the main street of Garapan, capital of Saipan, on its way to the front lines. The street fighting is the first of its kind in the Pacific theatre.Two American Marines advnace cautiously over the wreckage of buildings in Garapan, principal city on the Jap-held Saipan Island, in the Marianas, as they seek out snipers still remaining after the American forces captured the community. Jeeps, fitted with stretcher rocks, pull up to this wrecked Jap building on the island of Saipan, which the Marines are using as a hospital. The zigzag camouflage didnt helpmuch, as evidenced by the hits scored.Two American Marines carry a wounded buddy into a field dressing station near the Saipan front line during a battle for the Jap-held island in the Marianas.104 Marine Pvt. John G. Greer (above), St. Paul, Minn., holds gun cocked in readiness as he examines searchlight platform with dummy light and soldier, which the retreating Japs, on Saipan Island, erected to confuse the invading American forces.Invading U. S. soldiers look over five intact, carefully covered Jap Zeros on Aslito airfield, Saipan, after capturing that point. U. S. Marines clean out a Jap foxhole in the Marianas, using a demolition charge to blast open the nest, and rifles to pick off any enemy soldiers who attempt to flee.American casualty wounded in attempt to storm Jap pillboxes, is being treated by fellow soldiers, while crew of medium tank stands by. 106 The first plane to land on the Aslito airstrip on Saipan, after it was captured by invading Marines, was this carrier-based Grumman "avenger" torpedo plane, which landed to secure medical aid for a gunner, wounded during a sky battle.Two U. S. Marines cool their toes in a sacred Japanese goldfish pond, while other Marines sit about at ease near Garapan. This part of the island was in control of the Americns while other forces engage in mopping up remnants of the Japanese. 107 First division Marines sprawl beneath the shelter of the stern of a "duck," an amphibi- ous truck, on the beach at Peleliu in the Palau Islands. Two other amphibious vehicles, hit by Jap artillery, burn in background.SBD's which participated in the carrier-plane strike against Japanese bases in the Palau Islands, hover near the mother ship, preparatory to landing. Warships of the Pacific Fleet launch a furious rocket attack against the beaches of Peleliu Island in the Palau group on D-Day preceding landings by troops of the FirstMarine Division.Here crewmen aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific fall in on the double to move a dive bomber damaged during an attack. When planes are taking off, the bow of theship must be clear. |q? When the wreckage of Japanese planes and equipment was cleared from this airfield on Palau, a Marine Curtiss Commando transport plane landed with a cargo of supplies and prepared to evacuate wounded Leathernecks.This straight shooting Marine Corporal, turret gunner of a Sherman tank, destroyed eight Japanese tanks near Peleliu airport in the Palau group. Note several dead Jap tankmen. UQ Some of the three hundred thousand conscripted Chinese laborers are engaged in the construction of airfields in China, using buckets, baskets, wheelbarrows and carts to complete the airfield runway bed.Two Chinese soldiers are shown firing the American made Bazooka Gun" at the Japanese. IL S. officers trained the Chinese in the use of all modern American weapons. Chinese soldiers lead three blindfolded Japanese to the rear after they were captured on the northern Burma front. The Chinese fighting in the area are American trained and equipped.Chinese troops moving up to the Burma front cover their nose and mouth from the stench of death as they march along roods littered with Japanese dead. A column of "Merrill Marauders" march along a frail in North Burma where they are headed for action against the Japs. They have joined forces with American trainedChinese troops.The famous flying "Fighting Tigers." the first American squadron to fight against the Japs from Chinese soil. Note the painted teeth on bottom of plane. 113 These two Americon lending aircraft are set high and dry on the beach of the Nor- mandy coast of France, as unloading operations continue while crewmen await return of the tide to refloat them.Allied material of war, including Amphibious "Ducks" and other armored vehicles, fills an invasion beach on the Normandy coast of France, protected by barrage balloons.The balloons also hover over ships anchored off shore. 114 Fully equipped, and each carrying large amounts of ammunition. American troops climb aboard a landing craft somewhere in England tor the cross-channel invasion of France.Out of the open bow doors of a landing craft, American men and jeeps pour ashore on the beach of the Normandy coast of France, June 6, for the opening of the second front invasion of Europe. Il 5 Low tide on a Normandy beach of France reveals a long stretch of skeleton-like obstructions erected by the Germans in a vain attempt to prevent Allied landings.Ducks (amphibious trucks) and a half-track follow toot troops ashore during opening of invasion of France on a 100-mile front along the Normandy coast by Allied forces. Allied armor, including guns, tanks, jeeps and other vehicles, continue to come ashore to supply the advancing armies. Note soldiers in center of picture crouching as stray bullets come too close.Yank motorized equipment including towed gun, rumbles ashore on the Normandy beach after crossing pontoon bridgeway which was prefabricated in England and *owed across the channel. ||7 American soldiers inspect the rear of a German fortification overlooking a Normandy beachhead point. Naval shell fire knocked out this defense position and it is now used as an allied command post.This massive German pillbox of concrete overlooking the Normandy coast of France was among strongpoints in the enemys first line of defense in Fortress Europe which were promptly silenced by Allied troops in the first invasion wave. U. S. soldiers in the beachhead area in Normandy, France, examine an unfinished German pill-box.Soldiers examine a blasted German concrete block house which was knocked out during the Allied assault on the Normandy beaches of France. 119 Two American soldiers scramble over rubble around French home which had been used as German fortification, inspecting damage done by Allied naval bombardment preceding the invasion of France.In this "impenetrable" concrete and steel fortress---part of the vaunted Nazi Atlantic Wall---some 15 members that served the big gun (right), lie dead on the loading platform, where an Allied shell scattered them like torn dolls on a direct hit. 120 Gorman soldiers taken prisoner in the inland fighting in the invasion of France are kept under guard by Allied soldiers at a French railroad station, following beachhead landings.Before a background of a knocked-out German coastal fortification, Allied soldiers of the expeditionary force which landed in France and who were wounded, are treatedbefore transfer to a clearing station. |2 I Lt. C. E. Wire, of 418---4th St., New Cumberland, Pa., engineer officer who landed with assault forces on D-Day, examines a German defense position on the shore of northern France.An American soldier examines captured German "88" on coast of France. Gun posi- tion was captured before Germans had a chance to "spike" it. Five German prisoners carry one of their wounded out of their captured headquarters under the watchful eye of an American soldier. Fear and consternation are written overtheir faces.German soldiers, taken prisoner in the invasion fighting, sprawl out in a shallow trench on a French beach, within a barbed wire enclosure, waiting for transportation across the channel to England. From RareAviation.com *23 Allied troops wounded in the opening hours of the invasion or France along a 100- mile front on the Normandy coast are unloaded from landing craft at a port somewhere in England and transferred to waiting ambulances.American infantrymen wade through surf under cover of nayal shell fire to make first landings on the Normandy coast of France, June 6, in the opening of the second front. A long line of American foot soldiers advances to the front in the Normandy section of France, keeping within white tape-marked line cleared of enemy mines. A barrage balloon flies overhead.Swinging a mattock, a U. S. soldier attached to the Medical Corps, digs a hole for his pup tent on a section of the Allied beachhead along the Norman Coast. Note silver barrage balloons (background), protecting installations against strafing planes. Wreckage of an American glider which crashed in landing in France during invasion of Gorman-held continent, lies scattered in a French field. A supply parachute hangs from nearby tree.Seated in the shade cast by the tail of a glider, two French women talk to military policemen as they wait to be questioned by an Army officer.T/Sgt. Armand E. Messier, of 90 Spring St., Pawtucket, R. I., shakes hands with a mannequin set outside a broken store window, in Villedieu, France, bedecked with a Gl helmet and bearing a sign pointing the way toward Berlin.A wrecked German 88 gun. abandoned by the Germans on the road to La Haye du Puits, in France, is moved to the side by American soldiers to permit traffic to pass, as they press forward their drive on the German strong-point. From RareAviation.com 127 Using plywood and netting for construction material. Germans Jn France built this elaborate representation of bomb damage to camouflage from Allied airmen, the bar-racks underneath.Allied troops cautiously pass a burning German pillbox in France. Dead Germans lying outside the blasted enemy stronghold ore grim testimony to the fierce fighting before the outer defences of the port were breached. 128 ! PlWrecked German armored equipment and their dead crews lie strewn along the side of a road in France, where they were trapped by American troops and destroyed by supporting rocket bombers.<5.r.Railroad freight cars litter a yard after being subjected to terrific bombing by the Allies. In a see-saw battle which lasted for days. Allied soldiers finally entered the town, to complete occupation. Trapped and almost entombed by an avalanche of debris caused by an enemy shell blast, an American soldier is extricated by medical corpsmen in France.This little French lad likes American soldiers and their chow and always manages to show up at the right time. Note U. S. Army overseas cap worn by child. 130 After fleeing the terrific shelling and bombardment of Isigny in the Allied invasion drive in Normandy, civilians return following the occupation of the town by the Americans, on foot, by bicycle and by horse-drawn vehicles.Capt. Richard Underwood (right) of Huntsville. Ohio, removes a mine from a culvert on the approaches to La Haye du Puits to help clear the way for an American drive in Normandy. The Germans built this concrete tortiticat.on