By Carl H. Peterson Copyright 2001

"Rosie the Riveter"
1. Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17.
2. Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa.
3. Woman working with head and shoulders through nose section of bombardier.
4. Operating a hand drill at Vultee- Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee.

   Leaders

5. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan, December 8, 1941.
6. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, at his headquarters in the European theater of operations.
7. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, Germany, ca. June 1940.
8. General MacArthur surveys the beachhead on Leyte Island, soon after American forces swept ashore from a gigantic liberation armada into the central Philippines, at the historic moment when the General made good his promise `I shall return.' 1944.
9. Conference of the Big Three at Yalta makes final plans for the defeat of Germany. Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Josef Stalin. February 1945.
10. American generals: seated left to right are William H. Simpson, George S. Patton, Jr., Carl Spaatz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney H. Hodges, and Leonard T. Gerow; standing are Ralph F. Stearley, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Walter Bedell Smith, Otto P. Weyland, and Richard E. Nugent. Ca. 1945. The Home Front
11. ...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . . Remember Dec. 7th!
12. We French workers warn you . . . defeat means slavery, starvation, death.
13. I Want You for the U.S. Army. Enlist Now.
14. Man the Guns. Join the Navy.
15. For your country's sake today--For your own sake tomorrow. Go to the nearest recruiting station of the armed service of your choice.
16. Buy War Bonds.
17. SCRAP.
18. Harvesting bumper crop for Uncle Sam. Movie star Rita Hayworth sacrificed her bumpers for the duration. Besides setting an example by turning in unessential metal car parts, Miss Hayworth has been active in selling war bonds.
19. Sugar rationing.
20. An eager school boy gets his first experience in using War Ration Book Two. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the facts of point rationing for helping out in family marketing.
21. We Can Do It.
22. Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school.
23. Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach, Calif., plant. Women workers groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers.
24. Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA.
25. Line up of some of women welders including the women's welding champion of Ingalls [Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS].
26. Chippers. Women war workers of Marinship Corp., 1942.
27. Man working on hull of U.S. submarine at Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.
28. Launching of USS ROBALO 9 May 1943, at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wis.
29. Someone talked!
30. Loose lips might sink ships.
31. A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry waits with the family baggage before leaving by bus for an assembly center in the spring of 1942.
32. Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro. Evacuees lived at this center at the former Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers.
33. Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration.

    Supply & Support

34. Mechanics check engine of SNJ at Kingsville Field, NATC, Corpus Christi, Texas.
35. Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at NAS Norfolk, Va.
36. Victory cargo ships are lined up at a U.S. west coast shipyard for final outfitting before they are loaded with supplies for Navy depots and advance bases in the Pacific. Ca. 1944.
37. Corporal Charles H. Johnson of the 783rd Military Police Battalion, waves on a `Red Ball Express' motor convoy rushing priority materiel to the forward areas, near Alen‡on, France.
38. Invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 24 Dec. 1943. Crammed with men and material for the invasion, this Coast Guard- manned LST nears the Japanese held shore. Troops shown in the picture are Marines.
39. U.S. Convoy which operates between Chen-Yi and Kweiyang, China, is ascending the famous twenty-one curves at Annan, China.
40. U.S. Marine `Raiders' and their dogs, which are used for scouting and running messages, starting off for the jungle front lines on Bougainville.
41. Signal Corps cameramen wading through stream while following infantry troops in forward area during invasion at a beach in New Guinea.
42. Pfc, 391st Inf. Regt., guards a lonely Oahu beach position. Kahuku, Oahu.

    Rest & Relaxation

43. Pfc. (right) cradles his 30-cal. machine gun in his lap, while he and his buddy take time out for a cigarette, while mopping up the enemy on Peleliu Is.
44. Activities aboard USS MONTEREY. Navy pilots in the forward elevator well playing basketball.
45. Liberty party. Liberty section personnel aboard LCM returning to USS CASABLANCA from Rara Island, off Pitylieu Island, Manus.
46. Bing Crosby, stage, screen and radio star, sings to Allied troops at the opening of the London stage door canteen in Piccadilly, London, England.
47. Danny Kaye, well known stage and screen star, entertains 4,000 5th Marine Div. occupation troops at Sasebo, Japan. The crude sign across the front of the stage says: `Officers keep out! Enlisted men's country. '
48. Pfc. Mickey Rooney imitates some Hollywood actors for an audience of Infantrymen of the 44th Division. Rooney is a member of a three-man unit making a jeep tour to entertain the troops.
49. Marlene Dietrich, motion picture actress, autographs the cast on the leg of Tec 4 Earl E. McFarland at a United States hospital in Belgium, where she has been entertaining the GIs.
50. A youngster, clutching his soldier father, gazes upward while the latter lifts his wife from the ground to wish her a `Merry Christmas.' The serviceman is one of those fortunate enough to be able to get home for the holidays.

    Aid & Comfort

51. Crewmen lifting Kenneth Bratton out of turret of TBF on the USS SARATOGA after raid on Rabaul.
52. Medics helping injured soldier, France, 1944.
53. Private Roy Humphrey is being given blood plasma by Pfc. Harvey White, after he was wounded by shrapnel, on 9 August 1943 in Sicily.
54. Transfer of wounded from USS BUNKER HILL to USS WILKES BARRE, who were injured during fire aboard carrier following Jap suicide dive bombing attack off Okinawa.
55. In an underground surgery room, behind the front lines on Bougainville, an American Army doctor operates on a U.S. soldier wounded by a Japanese sniper.
56. Nurses of a field hospital who arrived in France via England and Egypt after three years service.
57. With a canvas tarpaulin for a church and packing cases for an altar, a Navy chaplain holds mass for Marines at Saipan. The service was held in memory of brave buddies who lost their lives in the initial landings.
58. The crew of the USS SOUTH DAKOTA stands with bowed heads, while Chaplain N. D. Lindner reads the benediction held in honor of fellow shipmates killed in the air action off Guam on June 19, 1944.

    Navy & Naval Battles

59. A PT marksman provides a striking camera study as he draws a bead with his 50 caliber machine gun on his boat off New Guinea.
60. Officer at periscope in control room of submarine.
61. PT's patrolling off coast of New Guinea.
62. USS PENNSYLVANIA and battleship of COLORADO class followed by three cruisers move in line into Lingayen Gulf preceding the landing on Luzon.
63. Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted a Nazi U-boat's hope of breaking into the center of a large convoy.
64. Torpedoed Japanese destroyer photographed through periscope of U.S.S. Wahoo or U.S.S. Nautilus, June 1942.
65. Sixteen-inch guns of the U.S.S Iowa firing during battle drill in the Pacific, ca. 1944.
66. Jap torpedo bomber explodes in air after direct hit by 5 inch shell from U.S. aircraft carrier as it attempted an unsuccessful attack on carrier, off Kwajalein. U.S.S. Yorktown.
67. Japanese plane shot down as it attempted to attack USS KITKUN BAY. Near Mariana Islands, June 1944.
68. USS BUNKER HILL burning after Jap suicide attack. Near Okinawa, May 11, 1945.
69. USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes in 30 seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu. Dead-372. Wounded-264.

    Aviation
    

70. A Chinese soldier guards a line of American P-40 fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblem of the `Flying Tigers,' at a flying field somewhere in China.
    
71. Pilots aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier receive last minute instructions before taking off to attack industrial, and military installations in Tokyo. February 17, 1945.
    
72. Dynamic static. The motion of its props causes an `aura' to form around this F6F on USS YORKTOWN. Rotating with blades, halo moves aft, giving depth and perspective. November 1943.
    
73. Take off from the deck of the USS HORNET of an Army B-25 on its way to take part in first U.S. air raid on Japan. Doolittle Raid, April 1942.
    
74. TBF (Avengers) flying in formation over Norfolk, Va.
    
75. The first big raid by the 8th Air Force was on a Focke Wulf plant at Marienburg. Coming back, the Germans were up in full force and we lost at least 80 ships-800 men, many of them pals. 1943.
    
76. Photograph made from B-17 Flying Fortress of the 8th AAF Bomber Command on 31 Dec. when they attacked the vital CAM ball- bearing plant and the nearby Hispano Suiza aircraft engine repair depot in Paris. France, 1943.
    
77. Pilots pleased over their victory during the Marshall Islands attack, grin across the tail of an F6F Hellcat on board the USS LEXINGTON, after shooting down 17 out of 20 Japanese planes heading for Tarawa.
    
    German Aggression
    
78. Hitler accepts the ovation of the Reichstag after announcing the `peaceful' acquisition of Austria. It set the stage to annex the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland, largely inhabited by a German- speaking population. Berlin, March 1938.
    
79. German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland. PK Hugo J"ger, September 1939.
    
80. The tragedy of this Sudeten woman, unable to conceal her misery as she dutifully salutes the triumphant Hitler, is the tragedy of the silent millions who have been `won over' to Hitlerism by the `everlasting use' of ruthless force.
    
81. Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov signs the German-Soviet nonaggression pact; Joachim von Ribbentrop and Josef Stalin stand behind him. Moscow, August 23. 1939.
    
82. British prisoners at Dunkerque, France, June 1940.
    
83. A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France.
    
84. Adolf Hitler in Paris, June 23, 1940.
    
85. German troops in Russia, 1941.
    
    Battle of Britain
    
86. Aircraft spotter on the roof of a building in London. St. Paul's Cathedral is in the background.
    
87. Standing up gloriously out of the flames and smoke of surrounding buildings, St. Paul's Cathedral is pictured during the great fire raid of Sunday December 29th. 1940.
    
88. Over 500 firemen and members of the London Auxiliary Fire Fighting Services, including many women, combined in a war exercise over the ground covered by Greenwich (London) Fire Station.
    
89. Children of an eastern suburb of London, who have been made homeless by the random bombs of the Nazi night raiders, waiting outside the wreckage of what was their home. September 1940.
    
90. Two bewildered old ladies stand amid the leveled ruins of the almshouse which was Home; until Jerry dropped his bombs. Total war knows no bounds. Almshouse bombed Feb. 10, Newbury, Berks., England.
    
91. Life in London during the war. View of a V-1 rocket in flight, 1944.
    
    North Africa, Sicily, ItalyB
92. Gen. Erwin Rommel with the 15th Panzer Division between Tobruk and Sidi Omar. Sdf. Zwilling, Libya, January or November 24, 1941.
    
93. General Bernard L. Montgomery watches his tanks move up. North Africa, November 1942.
    
94. Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard, CO, 30th Infantry Regiment, a prominent figure in the second daring amphibious landing behind enemy lines on Sicily's north coast, discusses military strategy with Lt. Gen. George S. Patton. Near Brolo. 1943.
    
95. Front view of 240mm howitzer of Battery `B', 697th Field Artillery Battalion, just before firing into German held territory. Mignano area, Italy. Boyle, January 30, 1944.
    
96. Moving up through Prato, Italy, men of the 370th Infantry Regiment, have yet to climb the mountain which lies ahead. April 9, 1945.
    
97. Americans of Japanese descent, Infantrymen of the 442nd Regiment, run for cover as a German artillery shell is about to land outside the building. Italy, April 4, 1945.
    
98. Pvt. Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry, standing in reverence before an altar in a damaged Catholic Church. Note: pews at left appear undamaged, while bomb-shattered roof is strewn about the sanctuary. Acerno, Italy.
    
99. From Coast Guard-manned "sea-horse" landing craft, American troops leap forward to storm a North African beach during final amphibious maneuvers.
    
    France
    
100. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. `Full victory-nothing else' to paratroopers in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe.
     
101. 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.
     
102. Crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade's tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe. 1944.
     
103. American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France.
     
104. An American officer and a French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city, 1944.
     
105. General Charles de Gaulle speaks to the people of Cherbourg from the balcony of the City Hall during his visit to the French port city on August 20. 1944.
     
106. American troops in tank passing the Arc de Triomphe after the liberation of Paris, August 1944.
     
107. American troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Champs Elysees, Paris, in the `Victory' Parade.1944.
     
108. This girl pays the penalty for having had personal relations with the Germans. Here, in the Montelimar area, France, French civilians shave her head as punishment. 1944.
     
     The Low Countries
     
109. Yanks of 60th Infantry Regiment advance into a Belgian town under the protection of a heavy tank.
110. Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroops land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army. September 1944.
111. A U.S. Infantry anti-tank crew fires on Nazis who machine- gunned their vehicle, somewhere in Holland.
112. A Nazi soldier, heavily armed, carries ammunition boxes forward with companion in territory taken by their counter- offensive in this scene from captured German film. Belgium, December 1944.
113. A lanky GI, with hands clasped behind his head, leads a file of American prisoners marching along a road somewhere on the western front. Germans captured these American soldiers during the surprise enemy drive into Allied positions. Captured German photograph, December 1944.
114. Chow is served to American Infantrymen on their way to La Roche, Belgium. 347th Infantry Regiment.
115. Canadian Infantry of the Regiment de Maisonneuve, moving through Holten to Rijssen, Netherlands.

     Germany

116. First U.S. Army men and equipment pour across the Remagen Bridge; two knocked out jeeps in foreground.
117. Then came the big day when we marched into Germany--right through the Siegfried Line. 1945.
118. I drew an assault boat to cross in--just my luck. We all tried to crawl under each other because the lead was flying around like hail. Crossing the Rhine under enemy fire at St. Goar. March 1945.
119. Two anti-tank Infantrymen of the 101st Infantry Regiment, dash past a blazing German gasoline trailer in square of Kronach, Germany.
120. Infantrymen of the 255th Infantry Regiment move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by 63rd Division.
121. Soldiers of the 55th Armored Infantry Battalion and tank of the 22nd Tank Battalion, move through smoke filled street. Wernberg, Germany.
122. Happy 2nd Lt. William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Russian Army, shown in front of sign [East Meets West] symbolizing the historic meeting of the Russian and American Armies, near Torgau, Germany.
123. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, accompanied by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., inspects art treasures stolen by Germans and hidden in salt mine in Germany.
124. The 90th Division discovered this Reichsbank wealth, SS loot, and Berlin museum paintings that were removed from Berlin to a salt mine in Merkers, Germany.

     Japan Attacks

125. Captured Japanese photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941.
126. Captured Japanese photograph taken during the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. In the distance, the smoke rises from Hickam Field.
127. USS SHAW exploding during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941.
128. The USS ARIZONA burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941.
129. Pearl Harbor, T.H. taken by surprise, during the Japanese aerial attack. USS WEST VIRGINIA aflame. December 7, 1941.
130. Surrender of American troops at Corregidor, Philippine Islands, May 1942.
131. The March of Death. Along the March [on which] these prisoners were photographed, they have their hands tied behind their backs. The March of Death was about May 1942, from Bataan to Cabanatuan, the prison camp.
132. This picture, captured from the Japanese, shows American prisoners using improvised litters to carry those of their comrades who, from the lack of food or water on the march from Bataan, fell along the road. Philippines, May 1942.

     Island Campaigns

133. U.S. troops go over the side of a Coast Guard manned combat transport to enter the landing barges at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, as the invasion gets under way. November 1943.
134. A Water Buffalo, loaded with Marines, churns through the sea bound for beaches of Tinian Island near Guam. July 1944.
135. 165th Infantry assault wave attacking Butaritari, Yellow Beach Two, find it slow going in the coral bottom waters. Jap machine gun fire from the right flank makes it more difficult for them.
136. Army reinforcements disembarking from LST's form a graceful curve as they proceed across coral reef toward the beach.
137. Marines hit three feet of rough water as they leave their LST to take the beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
138. American troops of the 163rd Infantry Regiment hit the beach from Higgins boats during the invasion of Wadke Island, Dutch New Guinea.
139. Landing operations on Rendova Island, Solomon Islands, 30 June 1943. Attacking at the break of day in a heavy rainstorm, the first Americans ashore huddle behind tree trunks and any other cover they can find.
140. First flag on Guam on boat hook mast. Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam eight minutes after U.S. Marines and Army assault troops landed on the Central Pacific island on July 20, 1944.
141. Marines storm Tarawa. Gilbert Islands.
142. The Yanks mop up on Bougainville. At night the Japs would infiltrate American lines. At Dawn, the doughboys went out and killed them. This photo shows tank going forward, infantrymen following in its cover. March 1944.
143. Retreating at first into the jungle of Cape Gloucester, Japanese soldiers finally gathered strength and counterattacked their Marine pursuers. These machine gunners pushed them back.
144. Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers to smoke out Japs from a block house on Kwajalein Island, while others wait with rifles ready in case Japs come out.
145. A member of a Marine patrol on Saipan found this family of Japs hiding in a hillside cave. The mother, four children and a dog, took shelter from the fierce fighting in that area.
146. After the Marines captured this mountain gun from the Japs at Saipan, they put it into use during the attack on Garapan, administrative center of the island.
147. 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. February 1944.
148. These men have earned the bloody reputation of being skillful jungle fighters. They are U.S. Marine Raiders gathered in front of a Jap dugout on Cape Totkina on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, which they helped to take. January 1944.

     Philippine Islands

149. The gun crews of a Navy cruiser covering American landing on the island of Mindoro, Dec. 15, 1944, scan the skies in an effort to identify a plane overhead. Two 5" (127mm) guns are ready while inboard 20mm anti-aircraft crews are ready to act."
150. A line of Coast Guard landing barges, sweeping through the waters of Lingayen Gulf, carries the first wave of invaders to the beaches of Luzon, after a terrific naval bombardment of Jap shore positions on Jan. 9, 1945.
151. Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, P.I. October 1944.
152. Two Coast Guard-manned LST's open their great jaws in the surf that washes on Leyte Island beach, as soldiers strip down and build sandbag piers out to the ramps to speed up unloading operations. 1944.
153. Veteran Artillery men of the `C' Battery, 90th Field Artillery, lay down a murderous barrage on troublesome Jap artillery positions in Balete Pass, Luzon, P.I.

     Iwo Jima & Okinawa

154. Marines of the 5th Division inch their way up a slope on Red Beach No. 1 toward Surbachi Yama as the smoke of the battle drifts about them. Dreyfuss, Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945.
155. Across the litter on Iwo Jima's black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell Jap positions cleverly concealed back from the beaches. Here, a gun pumps a stream of shells into Jap positions inland on the tiny volcanic island.
156. Smashed by Jap mortar and shellfire, trapped by Iwo's treacherous black-ash sands, amtracs and other vehicles of war lay knocked out on the black sands of the volcanic fortress.
157. Flag raising on Iwo Jima. February 23, 1945.
158. Corsair fighter looses its load of rocket projectiles on a run against a Jap stronghold on Okinawa. In the lower background is the smoke of battle as Marine units move in to follow up with a Sunday punch.
159. A Marine of the 1st Marine Division draws a bead on a Japanese sniper with his tommy-gun as his companion ducks for cover. The division is working to take Wana Ridge before the town of Shuri.
160. With the captured capital of Naha as a background, Marine Maj. Gen. Lemuel Shepherd, commanding general of the 6th Marine Division, relaxes on an Okinawan ridge long enough to consult a map of the terrain.

     Japan

161. USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan. July 1945.
162. Task Force 58 raid on Japan. 40mm guns firing aboard USS HORNET on 16 February 1945, as the carrier's planes were raiding Tokyo.
163. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before the takeoff, 6 August 1945.
164. A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress.
165. The patient's skin is burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the explosion. Atomic bomb survivor. Ca. 1945
166. In the background, a Roman Catholic cathedral on a hill in Nagasaki. 1945.

     Prisoners

167. Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, December 19, 1938.
168. Jewish civilians: copy of a German photograph taken during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, 1943.
169. We were getting our second wind now and started flattening out that bulge. We took 50,000 prisoners in December alone. American soldier with captured Germans. 1944.
170. The endless procession of German prisoners captured with the fall of Aachen marching through the ruined city streets to captivity. Germany, October 1944.
171. Nuremberg Trials: looking down on the defendants' dock. 1945-46.
172. German Gen. Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in the Aversa stockade. The General was convicted and sentenced to death by an American military tribunal. Aversa, Italy
173. American prisoners of war celebrate the 4th of July in the Japanese prison camp of Casisange in Malaybalay, on Mindanao, P.I. It was against Japanese regulations and discovery would have meant death, but the men celebrated the occasion anyway. July 4, 1942.
174. Marines unloading Japanese POW from a submarine returned from war patrol.
175. Correspondents interview `Tokyo Rose.' Iva Toguri, American-born Japanese. September 1945.
176. Japanese POW's at Guam, with bowed heads after hearing Emperor Hirohito make announcement of Japan's unconditional surrender. August 15, 1945.
177. Gaunt allied prisoners of war at Aomori camp near Yokohama cheer rescuers from U.S. Navy. Waving flags of the United States, Great Britain and Holland. Japan, August 29, 1945.

     The Holocaust

178. Starving inmate of Camp Gusen, Austria.
179. These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena; many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp.
180. This victim of Nazi inhumanity still rests in the position in which he died, attempting to rise and escape his horrible death. He was one of 150 prisoners savagely burned to death by Nazi SS troops.
181. Some of the bodies being removed by German civilians for decent burial at Gusen Concentration Camp, Muhlhausen, near Linz, Austria. Men were worked in nearby stone quarries until too weak for more, then killed.
182. A truck load of bodies of prisoners of the Nazis, in the Buchenwald concentration camp at Weimar, Germany. The bodies were about to be disposed of by burning when the camp was captured by troops of the 3rd U.S. Army.
183. Bones of anti-Nazi German women still are in the crematoriums in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, taken by the 3rd U.S. Army. Prisoners of all nationalities were tortured and killed.
184. A German girl is overcome as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by SS guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders.

     Death & Destruction

185. The German ultimatum ordering the Dutch commander of Rotterdam to cease fire was delivered to him at 10:30 a.m. on May 14, 1940. At 1:22 p.m., German bombers set the whole inner city of Rotterdam ablaze, killing 30,000 of its inhabitants.
186. Choked with debris, a bombed water intake of the Pegnitz River no longer supplies war factories in Nuremberg, vital Reich industrial city and festival center of the Nazi party, which was captured April 20, 1945, by troops of the U.S. Army.
187. American soldiers, stripped of all equipment, lie dead, face down in the slush of a crossroads somewhere on the western front. Captured German photograph. Belgium, December 1944.
188. With torn picture of his feuhrer beside his clenched fist, a dead general of the Volkssturm lies on the floor of city hall, Leipzig, Germany. He committed suicide rather than face U.S. Army troops who captured the city on April 19. 1945.
189. Photo taken at the instant bullets from a French firing squad hit a Frenchman who collaborated with the Germans. This execution took place in Rennes, France.
190. The Tapel Massacre on 1 July 1945. Picture shows Pedro Cerono, the man who discovered the group of 8 skulls. Tapel, Cagayan Province, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
191. A Coast Guard seaman died at his battle station aboard the USS MENGES, torpedoed by a nazi sub in the Mediterranean. He represents the old Coast Guard expression, `You have to go out, but you don't have to come back.'
192. Two enlisted men of the ill-fated U.S. Navy aircraft carrier LISCOME BAY, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Gilbert Islands, are buried at sea from the deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport. November 1943.
193. Standing in the grassy sod bordering row upon row of white crosses in an American cemetery, two dungaree-clad Coast Guardsmen pay silent homage to the memory of a fellow Coast Guardsman who lost his life in action in the Ryukyu Islands.

     Victory & Peace

194. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, signing the ratified surrender terms for the German Army at Russian Headquarters in Berlin.
195. Jubilant American soldier hugs motherly English woman and victory smiles light the faces of happy service men and civilians at Piccadilly Circus, London, celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender.
196. At the White House, President Truman announces Japan's surrender. Washington, DC, August 14, 1945.
197. GI's at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris, France, whoop it up after buying the special edition of the Paris Post, which carried the banner headline, `JAPS QUIT.'
198. New York City celebrating the surrender of Japan. They threw anything and kissed anybody in Times Square.
199. Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. Behind Gen. MacArthur are Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival.
200. Happy veterans head for harbor of Le Havre, France, the first to be sent home and discharged under the Army's new point system.
201. These Jewish children are on their way to Palestine after having been released from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The girl on the left is from Poland, the boy in the center from Latvia, and the girl on right from Hungary.
202. The famous British liner, QUEEN MARY, arrives in New York Harbor, June 20, 1945, with thousands of U.S. troops from European battles.
203. F4U's and F6F's fly in formation during surrender ceremonies; Tokyo, Japan. USS MISSOURI left foreground. September 2, 1945.

     Air War, 1943

204. Lockheed Constellation, new, fastest transport plane.
205. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane.
206. Clark Gable with 8th AF in Britain.
207. Memphis Belle leaves for US.
208. Hawker-Typhoon dive bomber loads 500-lb bombs under 20mm cannon (picture 1 of 2).
209. Hawker-Typhoon dive bomber loads 500-lb bombs under 20mm cannon (picture 2 of 2).
210. Ploesti raid - B-24 against smoke.
211. Ploesti raid - B-24 low over city.
212. Ploesti raid - B-24s bomb oil refinery.
213. Ploesti raid - B-24s bomb oil refinery.
214. B-17E sectional detail.
215. B-17E bomber formation.
216. Air War over Europe map.
217. Pvt., 30th Infantry, standing in reverence before an altar in a damaged Catholic Church. Note: pews at left appear undamaged, while bomb-shattered roof is strewn about the sanctuary. Acerno, Italy.
218. Marienburg FW factory bombed by U.S. 8th AF - "Precision Bombing".
219. Marienburg Focke-Wulf factory bombed by U.S. 8th AF - before and after.
220. The first big raid by the 8th Air Force was on a Focke Wulfplant at Marienburg. Coming back, the Germans were up in full-force and we lost at least 80 ships-800 men, many of them pals.
221. Foggia air base map.
222. B-17 trails in daylight raid.
223. B-17 with new chin turret to prevent frontal attacks.
224. Photograph made from B-17 Flying Fortress of the 8th AAF Bomber Command on 31 Dec. when they attacked the vital CAM ballbearing plant and the nearby Hispano Suiza aircraft engine repair depot in Paris.

     Air War, 1944

225. P-51B Mustang "Peg O' My Heart".
226. Jet fighter of Britain - similar to Italian Camproni jet.
227. Lancaster bomber carries 4000-lb. "Cookie".
228. B-17 bomber.
229. Spitfire fighter plane, latest version, used for recon.
230. Sketch of 1000 bombers.
231. Boeing B-17.
232. B-24 Bombers.
233. Bombing campaign. Europe & North Africa.
234. An Air Transport Command plane flies over the pyramids in Egypt. Loaded with urgent war supplies and materials, this plane is one of a fleet flying shipments from the U.S. across the Atlantic and the continent of Africa to strategic battle zones, 1943.
235. Awaiting final flight tests, an impressive number of other B-29's fills the Boeing-Witchita parking apron during the ceremony.
236. A Chinese soldier guards a line of American P-40 fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblem of the `Flying Tigers,' at a flying field somewhere in China.
237. An armorer of the 15th U.S. Air Force checks ammunition belts of the .50 caliber machine guns in the wings of a P-51 Mustang fighter plane before it leaves an Italian base for a mission against German military targets. The 15th Air Force was organized for long range assault missions and its fighters and bombers range over enemy targets in occupied and satellite nations, as well as Germany itself.

     Dilbert cartoons from WWII

238. Dilbert cartoon created by U.S. Navy Lt. Richard Osborn - based on Navy flier name for operational errors = "dillies" - always has vacuous smile, smug self-confidence.
239. Dilbert cartoon - "It's the Last Time I'll Ever Do That".
240. Dilbert cartoon - forgets safety belt.
241. Dilbert cartoon - glides too far, stalls plane, crashes.
242. Dilbert cartoon - flies with mental blinders.

     Casablanca Conference Jan. 14-24, 1943

243. FDR & Churchill.
244. Medal to Gen. Wilbur.
245. FDR eats with troops.
246. Giraud and deGaulle.
247. The first Air Force One.
248. FDR in jeep.
249. CSS meets.
250. Sultan of Morocco.

     Eastern Front in World War II

251. Russian tank on eastern front.
252. Russian tanks on eastern front.
253. Stalin.
254. Russian front map.
255. Russian front map - middle showing Kursk.
256. German prisoners.

     German Armor

257. German armor sketch - Tiger Mark VI tank.
258. German armor sketch - 88mm guns
259. German armor sketch - armored halftrack towing pillbox.
260. German armor sketch - tracked vehicles.

     Italy

261. Italy map.
262. Italy map - to Salerno.
263. Mussolini.
264. Badoglio.
265. Victor Emmanuel.
266. Messina and view of distant Italy.
267. Volturno crossed by Brit troops, part of 5th Army.
268. Italy (central) map - "The Slow Advance In Italy".
269. Italy (central) map - "The Slow Advance In Italy" - bottom of map.
270. Italy (central) map - "The Slow Advance In Italy" - middle of map - to Anzio.
271. Italy (central) map - "The Slow Advance In Italy" - top of map - Anzio to Rome.
272. Mud in Italy causes delays.
273. Pvt. in tent with mud near Capua, with 5th Army.

     Landing Craft of World War II

274. Landing Craft sketch.
275. LSTs land at North Africa port.
276. From Coast Guard-manned "sea-horse" landing craft, American troops leap forward to storm a North African beach during final amphibious maneuvers.

     North Africa

277. Map of western Mediterranean.
278. Map of Tunesia.
279. Rommel.
280. German prisoners in Tunesia led by Brit with white flag.
281. German POWs in Tunesia.
282. DC-3 flew 18000 wounded Allied in North Africa.
283. Montgomery.
284. Eisenhower.
285. Sherman tank details.
286. US-made Priest 105mm self-propelled "tankbuster" used against Rommel's 88mm-gun tanks in North Africa since January, mounted on Grant tank chassis.
287. Patton.
288. Rommel.
289. Rommel stuck in Libya mud.
290. Rommel in pictures taken from a German prisoner.
291. German "people's car" captured in North Africa.
292. Eden and Wavell in North Africa.

     Nuremberg Pictures

293. Nuremberg Trials, looking down on defendants dock, Front row, from left to right: Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hjalmar Schacht. Back row from left to right: Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin van Neurath, Hans Fritzsche. 1946.
294. Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in their dock; Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, and Keitel in front row, 1946.
295. Herta Oberheuser, physician on trial for having conducted medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Nuremberg, Germany, August 1947.
296. Mass assemblage of political leaders on the searchlight-illuminated Zeppelin field in Nuremberg. 09/1937.
297. Overview of the mass roll-call of SA, SS and NSKK troops. Nuremberg, 1935/11/09.
298. General view of the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, following the cessation of organized resistance. In the distance, the twin-spired Lorenz Church; on the right and surrounded with rubble is a statue of Kaiser William I. 1945.
299. Hitler at Nazi party rally, Nuremberg, Germany, circa 1928.
300. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, Philippine Islands 10/1944.
301. Sicily map, 1943.
302. US tanks enter Palermo, 1943.
303. Palermo - women hold up babies to U.S. soldiers, 1943.
304. Comino entered by U.S. 7th Army July 16.
305. Brit troops enter Militello, 1943.
306. German 88mm gun captured in Sicily (picture 1 of 2).
307. German 88mm gun captured in Sicily (picture 2 of 2).
308. Nurses of U.S. Army on Sicily, 1943.
309. Randazzo where U.S. and Brit troops meet, 1943.
310. Sicilian Springboard - map, 1943.
311. Messina and view of distant Italy, 1943.
312. Allied troops enter Messina, 1943.
313. Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard, CO, 30th Infantry Regiment, a prominent figure in the second daring amphibious landing behind enemy lines on Sicily's north coast, discusses military strategy with Lt. Gen. George S. Patton. Near Brolo, 1943.
314. Washington, D.C. Old German field gun from the First World War collected in the scrap metal salvage rally in Griffith Stadium. To be made into new steel for weapons in the Second World War, 1942.

     Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft 1

315. One of many guard towers encircling the 3 compounds at Stalag Luft #1, Barth, Germany.
316. Stove used for heating one of the many large barracks rooms - 16' by 24' which was "home" for 24 prisoners of war (when we had pressed coal - one lump per person - seldom!).
317. Roll.
318. All packed and ready to take to the air again courtesy of the 8th Air Force.
319. Wounded and sick prisoners of war were transported to the airport in these carts (real fancy accommodations) just prior to boarding the B-17's for the trip to Camp Lucky Strike in France.
320. We "hate" to leave you, Luft #1, but it is time to go. Naval Historical Center
321. U.S. Naval Air Operations, WWII.

     Living

322. Boy Scout Parade.
323. Checking documents.
324. Perimeter Warning.
325. Arrival at Tule.
326. Arrival/Departure?
327. Japanese baseball game.
328. Crowd gathering around bus.
329. Perimeter around camp.
330. US Soldiers assigned to camp.
331. Official unloading of people from truck.

     Labor

332. Office workers.
333. Farm packing and processing.
334. Typists.
335. School Office?
336. Harvest workers.

     Education

337. Preschool/Kindergarten.
338. Elementary School.
339. Junior High School.
340. Tar-Paper High School.

     Buildings

341. Home with vines.
342. Home with new trees.
343. Main Street "USA".
344. Main Street (part II).
345. Main Street (part III).
346. Tri-State High School.

     Topaz Japanese Relocation Camp

347. Diploma from Topaz High School.
348. Class of "44 Graduation Announcement.
349. Class of "45 Graduation Announcement
350. Mother and son, June, 1945.
351. Group of Friends.
352. Family.
353. Group of Guys.
354. The Topaz "Rams" football team.
355. Topaz High School 40th reunion.
356. Letter from George Bush to internees, 1990.

     PICTURES OF WW II PLANES

     German War Planes

357. Ardo Ar234 Jet Bomber (may be a recon plane).
358. Messerschmitt Bf 109 Fighter (color).
359. Messerschmitt Bf 109 Figher Cockpit (color).
360. Messerschmitt Bf 109 Schwarm.
361. Messerschmitt Bf 110 Nightfighter (color).
362. Messerschmitt Bf 110 Dual Seater Fighter.
363. Messerschmitt Me 262 Jet Fighter.
364. Focke Wulf FW 190 Fighter.
365. Focke Wulf FW 200 Maritime Reconnaissance.
366. Junkers Ju 52 Transport.
367. Junkers Ju 87 Stuka Diver Bomber.
368. Junkers Ju 88 Medium Bomber.
369. Heinkel He 111 Medium Bomber.
370. Heinker He 177 Heavy(?) Bomber.

     Italian War Planes

371. Reggiane Areonautica Re 2001 Fighter.
372. Macchi Mc C202 Fighter.
373. Savoia Marchetti SM79 Light Bomber.
374. Macchi Mc C202 Fighter. (different picture, larger)
375. Savoia Marchetti SM79 Light Bomber. (different picture, larger.)
376. A flight of Savoia Marchetti SM79 Light Bombers.
377. Cantz 501 in flight (1 of 2).
378. Cantz 501 in flight (2 of 2).
379. A flight of Cantz 1007s ready for takeoff.
380. MC 200 (color).
381. MC 202 (color).
382. Fiat G 50 (color).
383. Siai S 82 (color).
384. Mc 200 (color).
385. SM 79 (color).
386. Cant Z 1007 Monoderiva.

     American War Planes

387. B17 Flying Fortress Heavy Bomber (color).
388. B24 Liberator Heavy Bomber.
389. B29 Superfortress Heavy Bomber.
390. P38 Lightning Fighter.
391. P40 Warhawk Fighter.
392. P47 Thunderbolt Fighter.
393. P51 Mustang Fighter.
394. P80 Shooting Star Fighter.
395. F4F Wildcat Fighter.
396. F4U Corsair Fighter (color).
397. F4U Corsair Fighter.
398. TBF Avenger Torpedo Bomber.
399. A20 High Level.
400. A20 Low Level Bomber.
401. B-25 High Level.
402. B-25 Bombing at Rabaul.

     British War Planes

403. Handley Page Halifax Heavy Bomber.
404. Hawker Hurricane Fighter.
405. Gloster Meteor Fighter.
406. Hawer Tempest Ground Attack Plane.
407. Short Sunderland Maritime Reconnaissance Plane.
408. Fairey Swordfish Torpedo Bomber.
409. Bolton Paul Defiant.
410. Lancaster Bomber (1 of 3).
411. Lancaster Bomber (2 of 3).
412. Lancaster Bomber (3 of 3).

     Japanese War Planes

413. Nakajima Oscar Fighter.
414. Nakajima Frank Fighter.
415. Mitsubishi Zeke Fighter.
416. Mitsubishi Jack Fighter.
417. Nakajima Tony Fighter.
418. Kawasaki Nick Dual Seat Fighter.
419. Kawanishi George Fighter.
420. Mitsubishi Betty Medium Bomber.
421. Mitsubishi Sally Medium Bomber.
422. Kawanishi Lilly Light Bomber.
423. Nakajima Kate Torpedo Bomber.
424. Nakajima Jill Torpedo Bomber.

     French War Planes

425. Morane Saulnier 406.
426. Bloch MB-152-C1 (concensus 152, could be 151?).
427. Dewoitine D-520 (could be 650?).
428. Dewoitine D-520 (could be 850?).
429. MS 406.
430. D-520.

     PICTURES OF WWII TANKS

     American Tanks

431. Firefly.
432. Grant Lee.
433. M3.
434. Later M3.
435. M5.
436. M10.
437. M22.
438. M24.
439. Sherman 75.
440. Shermans.
441. Sherman 76 (color).
442. Pershing.

     German Tanks

443. Hertzer
444. Panzer Mk I
445. Panzer Mk II
446. Panzer Mk III
447. Panzer Mk IV
448. Panzer Mk V "Panther"
449. Panzer M VI "Tiger"
450. Tiger II "Konigstiger"
451. Marder II
452. Jadgpanther
453. StuG III

     British Tanks

454. Centurion.
455. Comet.
456. Cromwell.
457. Daimler Dingo.
458. Matilda
459. Val Mx X1

     Russian Tanks

460. IS-1
461. IS-3
462. T34
463. T35

     WORLD WAR II SHIPS

     American Carriers

464. USS Enterprise
465. USS Hornet and PTs
466. USS Lexington
467. USS Saratoga
468. USS Wake Island
469. USS Yorktown

     American Cruisers

470. USS Atlanta
471. USS Agusta
472. USS Helena
473. USS Indianapolis
474. USS Juneau
475. USS Montpelier
476. USS New Orleans
477. USS Portland
478. USS San Francisco
479. USS St. Paul

     American Destroyers

480. USS Cogswell
481. USS Davis
482. USS Fletcher
483. USS Gwin
484. USS Lansdowne
485. USS Picking
486. USS Sterett

     American Submarine

487. USS Bowfin ID

     American Battleships

488. USS Arizona
489. USS Mississippi
490. USS New York
491. USS South Dakota
492. USS West Virginia
493. USS Wyoming

     PEOPLE OF WW II

494. Adolf Hitler
495. Heinrich Himmler
496. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
497. Harry S Truman
498. General George C Marshall
499. General Hideki Tojo
500. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
501. Winston Churchill
502. Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal
503. Benito Mussolini
504. Field Marshall Pietro Badoglio
505. Count Galeazzo Ciano
506. Joseph Stalin
507. Marshal Georgi Zhukov
508. Viachislav Molotov

     WORLD WAR II RELATED MAPS

509. Map of Europe
510. Japanese Empire
511. Axis Power - 1941
512. Axis Power - 1942
513. Axis Power - 1943
514. Axis Power - 1944
515. Axis Power - 1945
516. Concentration Camps and Killing Centers
517. Pearl Harbor

     Holocaust
     Concentration Camps
     Treblinka

518. Treblinka (picture 1 of 2)
519. Treblinka (picture 2 of 2)
520. Drawing of the Trebinka Camp Plan

     Auschwitz-Birkinau

521. Auschwitz Map
522. Building in Auschwitz

     Dachau

523. Dachau Map
524. Skeletons (picture 1 of 2)
525. Skeletons (picture 2 of 2)
526. Prisoners

     Mauthausen

527. Mauthausen Map
528. Prisoners at work
529. Guard
530. People
531. Officer

     Gallery of American Propaganda Posters

532. This is Nazi Brutality.
533. Have you really tried to save gas…
534. Wanted for murder.
535. Were fighting to prevent this.
536. Crack the Axis.
537. Save waste fats.
538. OURS to fight for…freedom from fear.
539. GET HOT
540. Pvt Joe Louis says…
541. Buy Victory Bonds
542. He's watching you.
543. Warning
544. Keep 'em fighting.
545. Get a war job.
546. Man the guns.
547. "above and beyond the call of duty"
548. More production.
549. Loose lips might sink ships
550. Remember Dec 7th.
551. Buy War Bonds.
552. For your country's sake today - for your sake tomorrow.
553. SCRAP
554. When you ride alone you ride with Hitler.
555. You talk of sacrifice…he knew the meaning of sacrifice.
556. Don't let the shadow touch them…buy war bonds.
557. …because somebody talked!
558. Someone Talked!
559. Save freedom of speech - buy war bonds.
560. Stamp 'em out.
561. Waste helps the enemy.
562. Miles of hell to Tokyo!
563. United we win.
564. Victory waits on your fingers.
565. OURS…to fight for…freedom from want.
566. We can do it!
567. Save freedom of worship - buy war bonds.
568. We French workers warn you.

     TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

569. Marching across campus at Tuskegee Institute
570. Lined up for inspection.
571. Student pilot being congratulated upon completion of primary flying course at Moton Field.
572. Grading a primary student at Tuskegee on his solo landing.
573. A class of twin-engine pilots in front in flight caps and single engine pilots in rear in helmets and goggles, Dec. 1943.
574. Officers
575. Crew
576. Escorts
577. Heroes
578. Tuskegee Airman - Buy Bonds poster
579. Interview
580. Brave pilots.
581. Tuskegee Airmen Officers.
582. Mechanics
583. Pilot and one of the B-25's of the 477th Group
584. Tuskegee Airmen
585. Group Photo
586. Cadet
587. Escape Kits
588. Diploma
589. Several aviation cadets, maintenance personnel, and instructors stand by a PT-17 at Tuskegee Army Air Field.
590. Port of Embarkation Certificate.
591. Tent camp before barracks completed on the Tuskegee Army Air Field.
592. Barracks for cadets and enlisted men.
593. Barracks inspection.
594. Briefing (picture 1 of
595. Briefing (picture 2 of
596. Looking at radial aircraft engine.
597. The first graduates of the Advanced Flying school on a BT-13 basic training aircraft.
598. "Chief Anderson" and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
599. A waist gunner on a B-25 handles the .50 caliber machine gun.
600. A plane crew at work on a 100-hour inspection.
601. Pilot Training School booklet, pilot license, Airmen Rating Record, Instrument Pilot Certificate
602. First Graduation Class, March 7, 1942.
603. Insignia of the 12th Air Force.
604. Insignia of the 15th Air Force.
605. Training aircraft, possibly BT-13's's at Tuskegee Army Air Field.
606. Drawing of P-40 Warhawk similar to type flown by the 99th.
607. Drawing of a P-47 Thunderbolt similar to type flown by the 332nd.
608. Drawing of a P-51D Mustang.
609. Drawing of a P-51D Mustang with the 332nd color scheme.
610. Drawing of Me-109 fighter.
611. Drawing of Boeing B-17G bomber.

     African Americans in WW II

612. Tankers of 761st Medium Tank Battalion - European Theater of Operations, August 1944.
613. Members of the 3rd Marine Ammunition Company on Saipan in 1944.

     Photos from Army Military Library

614. Beachhead bridge, damaged during the high storm, juts out into the channel from France.
615. Pontoon bridge erected and maintained by engineers of Co. B, 16th Armored Engineer Battalion, 1st Armored Division, 5th US Army, gets repaired after rise in the Arna River. Pontedera, Italy.
616. Tank bogged down in mud during 9th Army drive into Germany.
617. A French chaplain gives last rites to a wounded soldier of a French infantry division.
618. First Battalion, 290th Infantry,75th Division, examine helmet and liner pierced by an enemy bullet.
619. Pvt. Roy Humphrey, a member of the 7th Inf. Regt., 3rd Div, is being given blood plasma by Pfc Harvey White, after he was wounded by shrapnel.
620. Gliders and C-47s lined up prior to mission.
621. One of the pictures used on the "26 Job Opportunities for Air Force Men" recruiting poster.
622. Flight of B-25 Mitchell Bombers heads for a target.
623. Boeing B-17 in flight.
624. Men of Battery "C", 557th A.A.A. AW Battalion man a .50 caliber mobile antiaircraft gun.
625. Artillery unit stands by and checks their equipment while convoy takes a break.
626. Soldiers of 6th Armored Division dodge sniper fire in capture of Oberdola, Germany
627. 39th Infantry, 9th Div., 3rd Armored Div., afoot and riding the back of a bulldozer tank.
628. Pfc. Mayer Waddell, 3rd Armored Div, US First Army, First Army, fires on fleeing Germans. Cologne, Germany.
629. Flamethrowers of the 7th Div. smoke Japs out of a blockhouse. Kwajalein Island.
630. Infantrymen follow tank as they seek out infiltrated Japs. Bougainville.
631. Company I, on Volla Lavolla Island front, Stepping Stone Island. 13 Sept 43
632. First troops of 3rd Bn, 132nd Inf americal Div, landing on Cebu Island, P.I.
633. Flame-throwing Sherman tank in Belgium.
634. M4 Sherman Tanks in the ETO.

     Photos from Truman Library

635. President Harry S Truman, November 1945.
636. President Franklin D Roosevelt, Vice-President-elect Harry S Truman, November 10, 1944.
637. Harry S Truman and Anna Roosevelt, President Roosevelt's daughter, during funeral services for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, April 14, 1945.
638. Harry S Truman taking the oath of offices after the death of Franklin D Roosevelt, 7:09 p.m., April 12, 1945.
639. The first successful test of an atomic bomb, Alamogordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945.
640. President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Stalin at Potsdam, July 18, 1945.
641. Prime Minister Clement Atlee, President Truman, and Premier Stalin at Potsdam Conference August 1, 1945.
642. Premier Stalin, President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill, July 17, 1945.
643. Premier Stalin, President Truman, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko during the Potsdam Conference, July 20, 1945.
644. Truman's residence during the Potsdam Conference, the Little White House in Babelsburg, Berlin.
645. Big Three with staffs around the Conference table, August 1, 945.
646. General George Patton, President Truman and General Dwight D. Eisenhower at a flag raising ceremony in Berlin July 21, 1945.
647. President Truman and James F Byrnes on the USS Augusta on their way to attend the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.
648. President Truman and General Dwight D. Eisenhower at National Airport, Washington, D.C., June 19, 1945.
649. President Truman presents General George Marshall with permanent membership in the Reserve Officer Association, October 16, 1945.
650. Cover of book: Women in the Weather Bureau during World War II, a national weather service publication.
651. Plotting upper-air maps.
652. Transmitting weather information over teletype circuits.

     Photos from A-Bomb WWW Museum

653. "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
654. A bombs used over Japan: Little Boy (left) and Fat Man (right).
655. Diagram of energy generated by the explosion.
656. Diagram of heat content.
657. Diagram of bomb blast.
658. Diagram of "Little Boy" radiation.
659. Graph of relationship between number of casualties and distance from the hypocenter.
660. Damage caused by atomic bomb.
661. Another picture of "Little Boy".
662. "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

     Photos from Nuclear Files

663. The clock stopped at 8:15 a.m., the moment the world's largest atomic bomb, Little Boy is detonated 1,900 feet above Hiroshima, Japan.
664. Little Boy bomb, dropped by the U.S. B-29 Enola Gay, explodes with the force of 15 kilotons of explosive.
665. This bronze Buddha was melted by heat from the Hiroshima bomb. Bronze melts at around 1600 degrees F. The temperature on the ground beneath the exploding Hiroshima bomb reached about 7000 degrees.
666. Ground zero in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing.
667. Telephone pole in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing.
668. Hiroshima after the atomic bombing.
669. Map of Japan.
670. Stop watch of a victim stopped at 8:15 a.m.
671. Hiroshima after the atomic bombing (picture 1 of 6).
672. Hiroshima after the atomic bombing (picture 2 of 6).
673. Hiroshima after the atomic bombing (picture 3 of 6).
674. Hiroshima after the atomic bombing (picture 4 of 6).
675. Hiroshima after the atomic bombing (picture 5 of 6).
676. Hiroshima after the atomic bombing (picture 6 of 6).

     "HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida
     These images are provided, with permission of the photographer, as an educational resource for personal, non-commercial use only.

     Part 3: Hiroshima Collection

677. Military Clothing from victim 1,700 meters from the hypocenter. Minoru Tomita (24 at the time) was on a railway crossing on his way to Yokokawa Station, 1,700 meters from the hypocenter. He was accommodated at a nearby elementary school with very serious burns. This military uniform was sent to his parents' home by a nurse who thought he would die. He is still alive and well.
678. Lunch box 500 meters from the hypocenter. Its contents of boiled peas and rice, a rare feast at the time, were completely carbonized.
679. Geta (wooden clog) found 600 meters from the hypocenter.
680. Yoshio Hamada (26 at the time) was at Army Division Headquarters, 700 meters from the hypocenter. His left hand, which was hanging out of a window when the bomb fell, was burned by thermal radiation. His injury resulted in an abnormal growth of fingernails on his left hand. Even today he suffers from this continual abnormal growth. As the nails contain blood vessels, they cannot be trimmed without bleeding.
681. Kengo Futagawa (59 at the time) was crossing the Kannon Bridge (1,600 meters from the hypocenter) by bicycle on his way to do fire prevention work. He jumped into the river, terribly burned. He returned home, but died on August 22, 1945.
682. Melted Image of the Buddha
683. Student Uniform. Akio Tsukuda (13 at the time) was engaged in fire prevention work about 800 meters from the hypocenter. His father found his school uniform hanging on a granch of a tree on August 8, 1945. His body was not found.
684. Hair. Hiroko Yamashita (18 at the time) was at home. 800 meters from the hypocenter. She and her six-year-old brother were caught under the house as it collapsed. After rescuing her brother, she sought refuge elsewhere in the fire-ravaged town. On August 21, her younger brother died. Around August 25, when her mother combed her hair, all of it fell out with only three strokes.
685. Melted Sake bottles.
686. Mitsuyo Furukawa (35 at the time) was in her garden (1,600 meters from the hypocenter) watering the vegetables. Although she was badly burned on her chest and arms, she wandered around the scorched land for a week, looking for Mieko, her eldest daughter, who had been mobilized for fire prevention work at Tsurumi-cho. This is the dress she was wearing then.
687. Knee Trousers. Jiro Mitsuda (12 at the time) was on his way to school, 1,200 meters from the hypocenter. He was burned on the upper half of his body and on his legs. On returning home, he helped to fight a fire. Five days after the bombing, he breathed his last, saying, "It's dard. Please put on the light...I need water. Buy me some ice cream...."
688. Binoculars. Masami Tsuchiya (25 at the time), a second lieutenant, was in the First Army Hospital (900 meters from the hypocenter) for an appendectomy. On August 7, a corpsman found Masami's dead body, part skeleton. He was identified only by the name on the towel in his hand. He was scheduled to leave the hospital that day.
689. Pieces of Window Glass. Yoshi Fujikawa (30 at the time) was at home, 1,500 meters from the hypocneter. She was caught under the building, and numerous pieces of glass had pierced her all over her body. She has several operations since 1946 to remove the glass. (The rectangular size is 2.2 cm x 0.7 cm.)
690. Water Bottle. Yoshiko Kitamura (16 at the time) was mobilized to do fire prevention work in Zakoba-cho (1,200 meters from the hypocenter). Her body was not found. Only this water bottle was recovered.
691. Leather Belt. Takao Nakamura (14 at the time) was doing fire prevention work with other mobilized students 900 meters from the hypocenter. On August 7 his mother found his dead body just before it was to be cremated. Although the left half of his body was badly burned and full of sores, he was identified from a patch on his right trouser leg. The belt he wore was a memento of his father, who had died in action on Iwo Jima.
692. Fountain Pen. Tetsuo Kawakami (33 at the time) was walking on his way to the Chugoku Newspaper Company, where he worked, 1,300 meters from the hypocenter. Seriously burned on the front of his body, his skin peeled, and only his underpants and a belt remained on him. This fountain pen was clinging to his burned skin.
693. Monpe (Women's Work Pants). Kimiko Nishimaru (15 at the time) was working in communication services under the Student Mobilizaion Order at the army's district headquarters, 800 meters from the hypocenter. Badly burned over her whole body, she crawled home and received treatment from her parents. She died, however, on August 12, 1945.
694. Suitcase. Tadayori Kihara (50 at the time) was at the Kyobashi Bridge, 1,200 meters from the hypocenter, on a bicycle with this suitcase. Unable to stand the heat, he jumped into the rive to cool off. After being treated at a friend's house, he returned home. He died in 1967.
695. First-Aid Kit. Mariko Fujii (16 at the time) was doing fore prevention work 1,000 meters from the hypocenter. After a desperate search by her father, only her first-aid kit was found. In it were medicines and diapers for her younger brother. Her body was not found.
696. Damaged Lens with One Frame. Although the body of Moto Mosoro (54 at the time) was not found, a part of her burned head was discovered on September 6, one month after the atomic bombing, at a place 1,500 meters from the hypocenter. This was taken from an eye socket.
697. Nagasaki Cloud, August 9, 1945. The fierce blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees, and deadly radiation generated by the explosion crushed, burned and killed everything in sight and reduced this entire area to a barren field of rubble.
698. View from Nagasaki Medical Hospital.
699. Ward in 4th building of Nagasaki Medical Hospital.
700. Nagasaki after the atomic bombing (picture 1 of 5).
701. Nagasaki after the atomic bombing (picture 2 of 5).
702. Nagasaki after the atomic bombing (picture 3 of 5).
703. Nagasaki after the atomic bombing (picture 4 of 5).
704. Nagasaki after the atomic bombing (picture 5 of 5).
705. Model of the Uranium Atom. Uranium is the basic element from which nuclear explosives are made. American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
706. This glass ball, 3.2 inches across, is the size of the plutonium core in the bomb that exploded over Nagasaki with a force the equivalent to 22,000 tons of TNT. Kansas City, Missouri.
707. This is a duplicate outer shell of the first atomic bomb used on a civilian population. Ten and a half feet long, 9, 700 pounds, nicknamd "Little Boy," it completely destroyed the city of Hiroshima. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum exhibit.
708. Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, the Father of Health Physics. The Manhattan Project hired Dr. Morgan to be director of Health Physics at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He helped determine the radiation limits for workers who produced the first atomic bombs. Dr. Morgan went on to serve as director of Health Physics at Oak Ridge for 29 years. "There is no safe level of radiation exposure. So the question is not: What is a safe level? The question is: How great is the risk?"
709. Image from medical report of bombing, 1945 (1 of 2)
710. Image from medical report of bombing, 1945 (2 of 2)
711. Death March
712. Hell Ships. Map showing route prisoners taken on ships from Cabanatuan.

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713. All fifteen Torpedo Eight's TBDs as they depart for their attack on Kido Butai on 4 June 1942.
714. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Imperial Japanese Navy. Portrait photograph, taken during the early 1940s, when he was Commander in Chief, Combined Fleet.
715. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Imperical Japanese Navy, official portrait, by Shugaku Homma, 1943.
716. Captain Isoroku Yamamoto with US Secretary of the Navy Curtis D Wilber. Photographed at the Navy Department, Washington, DC, circa 1925-28, while Capt. Yamamoto was serving as Japanese Naval Attache to the U.S.
717. Painting by Sergeant Vaughn A. Bass, of the 4th Air Force Historical Section, based on information provided by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr. It depicts then-Captain Lanphier's P-38 "Lightning" fighter shooting down a "Betty" bomber that was carrying Admiral Yamamoto. Another P-38 is attacking one of the "Zero" fighters that formed the Admiral's escort. This action took place near Kahili, Bougainville, on 18 April 1943. Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942.
718. USS Nashville (CL-43) firing her 6"/47 main battery guns at a Japanese picket boat encountered by the raid task force, 18 April 1942. Photographed from USS Salt Lake City (CA-25).
719. USS Hornet (CV-8) launches Army Air Force B-25B bombers, at the start of the first U.S. air raid on the Japanese home islands, 18 April 1942.
720. An Army Air Force B-25B bomber takes off from USS Hornet (CV-8) at the start of the raid, 18 April 1942. Note men watching from the signal lamp platform at right.
721. An Army Air Forces B-25B bombers awaits the takeoff signal on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), as the raid is launched, 18 April 1942. Note Flight Deck Officer holding launch flag at right, and white stripes painted on the flight deck to guide the pilot's alignment of his plane's nose and port side wheels.
722. USAAF B-25B bomber lines up for takeoff from USS Hornet (CV-8), on the morning of 18 April 1942. Note white lines painted on the flight deck, below the plane's nose and port side wheels, to guide the pilot during his takeoff run. This is the 3rd or 4th plane to be launched.
723. USAAF B-25B bombers prepare to take off from USS Hornet (CV-8), on the morning of 18 April 1942. These are the last five or six planes to be launched.
724. A USAAF B-25B bomber flies over USS Hornet (CV-8) while on its way to attack targets in Japan, just after it was launched on the morning of 18 April 1942.
725. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle (left front), leader of the attacking force, and Captain Marc A. Mitscher, Commanding Officer of USS Hornet (CV-8), pose with a 500-pound bomb and USAAF aircrew members during ceremonies on Hornet's flight deck, while the raid task force was en route to the launching point.
726. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF (left front), leader of the raiding force, talks with Captain Marc A. Mitscher, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Hornet (CV-8), on board Hornet sometime before the 18 April 1942 launch of the raiding airplanes. Members of the Army Air Forces flight crews, and the wing of one of their B-25B bombers, are in the background
727. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF (front), leader of the raiding force, wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb, during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before his force of sixteen B-25B bombers took off for Japan. The planes were launched on 18 April 1942. The wartime censor has obscurred unit patches of the Air Force flight crew members in the background.
728. USAAF aircrewmen preparing .50 caliber machine gun ammunition on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), while the carrier was steaming toward the mission's launching point. Ammunition box in center is marked "A.P. M2, Incndy. M1, Trcr. M1", indicating the ammunition types inside: armor piercing, incendiary and tracer. Note wooden flight deck planking, with metal aircraft tiedown strips in place of every eighth plank.
729. USAAF aircrewmen preparing .50 caliber machine gun ammunition on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), while the carrier was steaming toward the mission's launching point.
730. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF, (center) with members of his flight crew and Chinese officials in China after the 18 April 1942 attack on Japan. Those present are (from left to right): Staff Sergeant Fred A. Braemer, Bombardier; Staff Sergeant Paul J. Leonard, Flight Engineer/Gunner; General Ho, director of the Branch Government of Western Chekiang Province; Lieutenant Richard E. Cole, Copilot; Lt.Col. Doolittle, Pilot and mission commander; Henry H. Shen, bank manager; Lieutenant Henry A. Potter, Navigator; Chao Foo Ki, secretary of the Western Chekiang Province Branch Government.
731. Brigadier General James H. Doolittle, USAAF. Points to Tokyo on a World globe, sometime after his return to the United States following his April 1942 bombing mission against Japan.
732. Brigadier General James H. Doolittle, USAAF. Poses beside an Army Air Forces recruiting poster alluding to his April 1942 bombing raid on Japan. Photograph was taken circa 1943.
733. Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle, USAAF. Standing beside an airplane, circa 1944-45.
734. U.S. Navy Medal of Honor. Photograph taken during the 1940s or early 1950s, showing the Medal of Honor, its ribbons and rosette.
735. USS Hornet (CV-8). Photographed circa late 1941, soon after completion, probably at a U.S. east coast port. A ferry boat and "Eagle Boat" (PE) are in the background.
736. USS Hornet (CV-8) launches Army Air Force B-25B bombers, at the start of the first U.S. air raid on the Japanese home islands, 18 April 1942.
737. USS Hornet (CV-8). Arrives at Pearl Harbor after the Doolittle Raid on Japan, 30 April 1942. PT-28 and PT-29 are speeding by in the foreground.
738. USS Hornet (CV-8). Underway in the Southern Pacific, 15 May 1942, a week after the Battle of Coral Sea and the day before she was recalled to Pearl Harbor to prepare for the Battle of Midway.
739. USS Hornet (CV-8). Enters Pearl Harbor, 26 May 1942. She left two days later to take part in the Battle of Midway. Photographed from Ford Island Naval Air Station, with two aircraft towing tractors parked in the center foreground.
740. At Pearl Harbor, 26 May 1942, just after the Battle of Coral Sea, and just before the Battle of Midway. Harbor tug Nokomis (YT-142) is underway alongside her. Note paint chipped off Hornet's waterline area by wave action while at sea.
741. Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942. A Japanese Type 99 shipboard bomber (Allied codename "Val") trails smoke as it dives toward USS Hornet (CV-8), during the morning of 26 October 1942. This plane struck the ship's stack and then her flight deck. A Type 97 shipboard attack plane ("Kate") is flying over Hornet after dropping its torpedo, and another "Val" is off her bow. Note anti-aircraft shell burst between Hornet and the camera, with its fragments striking the water nearby.
742. Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942. Damage to the smokestack and signal bridge of USS Hornet (CV-8) after it was struck by a crashing Japanese dive bomber, during the morning of 26 October 1942. Smoke at bottom is from fires started when the plane subsequently hit the flight deck. Note ship's tripod mast, with CXAM radar antenna in top left and the flag still flying above the damaged structure.
743. Mikuma. (Japanese Cruiser, 1934-1942). In Sukumo Bay, southern Shikoku, April 1939, with a small boat passing by in the foreground.
744. Mikuma (Japanese Cruiser, 1934-1942). Photographed in April 1939, in either Ariake Bay, western Kyushu, or Shibushi Bay, southeastern Kyushu. Several destroyers are also present.
745. Mikuma (Japanese Cruiser, 1934-1942). At sea in 1938, seen from a sister ship. Note that the foreground ship still has her original battery of triple 155mm guns.
746. Japanese Cruisers of the Seventh Squadron (Sentai). In Ise Bay, east-central Honshu, during the Summer of 1938. Ships are identified on the original print as (from front to back) Mogami, Mikuma and Kumano. However, at that time Sentai 7 consisted of Kumano (one funnel band, as on ship in foreground), Mikuma (2 funnel bands) and Suzuya (3 funnel bands). Accordingly, this photo may show those three ships, in the order listed.
747. Mikuma (Japanese Cruiser, 1934-1942). Closeup view of the port side of her smokestack, showing a man working near the middle, August 1938. The two white bands painted around the smokestack identify her as the second unit of the Seventh Squadron (Sentai 7).
748. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by SBD dive bombers from USS Hornet (CV-8) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) on the Japanese cruisers Mogami and Mikuma and two destroyers, on 6 June 1942. Mikuma, the ship shown trailing oil at the right, was sunk as a result of these attacks.
749. Battle of Midway, June 1942. SBD "Dauntless" dive bombers from USS Hornet (CV-8) approaching the burning Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma to make the third set of attacks on her, during the early afternoon of 6 June 1942.
750. Battle of Midway, June 1942. The Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma afire and dead in the water on 6 June 1942, as seen from a SBD dive bomber, probably from USS Hornet (CV-8) during the day's third attack by planes from Hornet and USS Enterprise (CV-6). A destroyer (either Asashio or Arashio) is nearby, attempting to remove Mikuma's crew. Photo was taken from the gunner's seat, looking aft, with the barrel of a .30 caliber machine gun in the right foreground and the plane's vertical tail at the extreme right
751. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, photographed from a USS Enterprise (CV-6) SBD aircraft during the afternoon of 6 June 1942, after she had been bombed by planes from Enterprise and USS Hornet (CV-8). Note her shattered midships structure, torpedo dangling from the after port side tubes and wreckage atop her number four eight-inch gun turret.
752. Battle of Midway, June 1942. The burning Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, photographed from a U.S. Navy aircraft during the afternoon of 6 June 1942, after she had been bombed by planes from USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Hornet (CV-8). Note her third eight-inch gun turret, with roof blown off and barrels at different elevations, Japanese Sun insignia painted atop the forward turret and wrecked midships superstructure.
753. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma dead in the water and burning, following attacks by planes from USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Hornet (CV-8), 6 June 1942.
754. USS Trout (SS-202). Returns to Pearl Harbor on 14 June 1942, after the Battle of Midway. She is carrying two Japanese prisoners of war, Chief Radioman Hatsuichi Yoshida and Fireman 3rd Class Kenichi Ishikawa, survivors of the sunken cruiser Mikuma who had been rescued on 9 June. Among those waiting on the pier are Rear Admiral Robert H. English and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The district ferry Nihoa (YFB-19) is in the left background, just to the right of Trout's jack. Two .30 caliber Lewis machineguns are mounted on Trout's sail, flanking the periscope shears.
755. I-68 (Japanese Submarine, 1933-1943). Underway in March 1934, probably during her trials. This submarine was renamed I-168 in May 1942. She torpedoed USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 6 June 1942, causing damage that led to the carrier's sinking the following morning.
756. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Scene in the hangar of USS Yorktown (CV-5) during salvage operations on 6 June 1942. A Douglas TBD-1 "Devastator" torpedo plane is being prepared for jettisoning, as part of efforts to lighten the listing ship. Photographed by Photographer 2nd Class William G. Roy. This view looks to port, out the forward hangar bay opening, with the sea visible beyond
757. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting USS Hammann (DD-412) alongside USS Yorktown (CV-5) assisting her salvage team, immediately before both ships were torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168, on 6 June 1942.
758. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the torpedoing of USS Hammann (DD-412) and USS Yorktown (CV-5) by Japanese submarine I-168, during the afternoon of 6 June 1942.
759. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Hammann (DD-412) sinking with stern high, after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168 in the afternoon of 6 June 1942. Photographed from the starboard forecastle deck of USS Yorktown (CV-5) by Photographer 2nd Class William G. Roy. Angular structure in right foreground is the front of Yorktown's forward starboard 5-inch gun gallery. Note knotted lines hanging down from the carrier's flight deck, remaining from her initial abandonment on 4 June.
760. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Hammann (DD-412) disappears beneath the waves, after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168 in the afternoon of 6 June 1942. Photographed from the starboard forecastle deck of USS Yorktown (CV-5) by Photographer 2nd Class William G. Roy.
761. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the explosion of depth charges from USS Hammann (DD-412) as she sank alongside USS Yorktown (CV-5) during the afternoon of 6 June 1942. Both ships were torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168 while Hammann was assisting with the salvage of Yorktown. USS Vireo (AT-144) is shown at left, coming back to pick up survivors, as destroyers head off to search for the submarine.
762. USS Hammann (DD-412). Photographed when first completed, circa mid-1939. The ship appears to be under tow, with a canvas cover over her stack, indicating that she may be en route from her builders for delivery to the Navy. Five tires are hung over her side for use as fenders.
763. USS Hammann (DD-412). At the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, in January 1942, just before she transferred to the Pacific. She is painted in Measure 12 (modified) camouflage.
764. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Survivors of USS Hammann (DD-412) are brought ashore at Pearl Harbor from USS Benham (DD-397), a few days after their ship was sunk on 6 June 1942. Note Navy ambulance in left foreground, many onlookers, depth charge racks on Benham's stern and open sights on her after 5"/38 gun mount.
765. Commander Arnold E. True, USN. Receives the Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Medal for his performance while in command of USS Hammann (DD-412) during the May-June 1942 Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. Hammann was lost on 6 June 1942, during the Midway action. Presenting the awards is Admiral William F. Halsey. Photograph was taken circa October 1942.
766. Lieutenant Arnold E. True, USN. Photographed 15 June 1936, while serving as Aerological Officer at the Fleet Air Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
767. USS Yorktown (CV-5). Photographed during builder's trials, May 1937.
768. USS Yorktown (CV-5). Anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 30 October 1937.
769. USS Yorktown (CV-5). Anchored in a Haitian harbor, circa 1938-40.
770. USS Yorktown (CV-5), Operating in the vicinity of the Coral Sea, April 1942. Photographed from a TBD-1 torpedo plane that has just taken off from her deck. Other TBD and SBD aircraft are also ready to be launched. A F4F-3 "Wildcat" fighter is parked on the outrigger just forward of the island. Other ships in company include a fleet oiler, a destroyer and a heavy cruiser. This view has been retouched to censor the radar antenna mounted atop Yorktown's foremast.
771. USS Yorktown (CV-5). Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) SBD-3 aircraft spotted forward on the flight deck, during operations in the Coral Sea, April 1942. VB-5 painted individual plane numbers on the engine cowling, as seen here. Scouting Squadron Five (VS-5) planes had the numbers on the wing leading edge.\
772. USS Yorktown (CV-5). In Dry Dock # 1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 29 May 1942, receiving urgent repairs for damage received in the Battle of Coral Sea. She left Pearl Harbor the next day to participate in the Battle of Midway. USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air attack, is being salvaged in the left distance.
773. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Scene on board USS Yorktown (CV-5), shortly after she was hit by three Japanese bombs on 4 June 1942. Dense smoke is from fires in her uptakes, caused by a bomb that punctured them and knocked out her boilers.
774. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Yorktown (CV-5) is hit on the port side, amidships, by a Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedo during the mid-afternoon attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu, 4 June 1942. Photographed from USS Pensacola (CA-24). Yorktown is heeling to port and is seen at a different aspect than in other views taken by Pensacola, indicating that this is the second of the two torpedo hits she received. Note very heavy anti-aircraft fire.
775. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Yorktown (CV-5) being abandoned by her crew after she was hit by two Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedoes, 4 June 1942. USS Balch (DD-363) is standing by at right. Note oil slick surrounding the damaged carrier, and inflatable life raft being deployed off her stern.
776. Soryu (Japanese Aircraft Carrier, 1935-1942). Running trials in January 1938.
777. Soryu Japanese Aircraft Carrier, 1935-1942). View of the ship's wake from the after end of the boat stowage deck, while making nearly 35 knots on speed trials in November 1937. Note underside of the flight deck above, heavy supporting brace between the main and flight decks, and safety netting around the flight deck edges.
778. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu circles while under high-level bombing attack by USAAF B-17 bombers from the Midway base, shortly after 8AM, 4 June 1942. This attack produced near misses, but no hits.
779. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Yorktown (CV-5) dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga and Soryu in the morning of 4 June 1942. The diorama was created during World War II on the basis of information then available. It is therefore somewhat inaccurate in scope and detail. This angle of view depicts Soryu (attacked by Yorktown aircraft) in the middle distance, with Kaga and Akagi (both attacked by Enterprise aircraft) as the closer two burning ships.
780. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers Soryu, Akagi and Kaga in the morning of 4 June 1942. The diorama was created during World War II on the basis of information then available. It is therefore somewhat inaccurate in scope and detail. This angle of view is essentially the reciprocal of that shown in Photo 779. It depicts Soryu (attacked by Yorktown aircraft) in the center foreground, with Kaga and Akagi (both attacked by Enterprise aircraft) as the two most distant burning ships. The burning ship at far right is a light cruiser, which had been erroneously reported to have been hit.
781. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Nautilus (SS-168) on a burning Japanese aircraft carrier during the early afternoon of 4 June 1942, as seen through the submarine's periscope. Nautilus thought she had attacked Soryu, and that her torpedoes had exploded when they hit the target. Most evidence, however, is that the ship attacked was Kaga, and that the torpedoes failed to detonate. The ship shown in this wartime diorama does not closely resemble either of those carriers.
782. Hiryu (Japanese Aircraft Carrier, 1937-1942). Running speed trials on 28 April 1939.
783. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu maneuvers to avoid three sticks of bombs dropped during a high-level attack by USAAF B-17 bombers, shortly after 8AM, 4 June 1942.
784. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu maneuvering during a high-level bombing attack by USAAF B-17 bombers, shortly after 8AM, 4 June 1942. Note ship's flight deck markings, including Katakana identification character "hi" on her after flight deck. This image is cropped from Photo 783.
785. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting attacks by U.S. Navy carrier dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu during the afternoon of 4 June 1942. The diorama also shows some of Hiryu's accompanying ships under bombing attack.
786. Battle of Midway, Jne 1942. Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class Clifton R. Bassett, of Bombing Squadron Three (VB-3), is carried down the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6), 4 June 1942. He was wounded by Japanese aircraft gunfire while VB-3 was attacking Hiryu. Bassett was radioman/gunner of the SBD "Dauntless" scout-bomber flown by Ensign Bunyan R. Cooner, USNR, seen here walking to the right of the stretcher party. Photographed looking forward from the carrier's island. Note flight deck distance markings and aircraft tie-down strips.
787. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class Clifton R. Bassett, of Bombing Squadron Three (VB-3), is carried from the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6), 4 June 1942. He had been wounded by Japanese aircraft while VB-3 was attacking Hiryu. Bassett was radioman/gunner of the SBD "Dauntless" scout-bomber flown by Ensign Bunyan R. Cooner, USNR, seen here at top center wearing an inflatable life jacket. Photographed looking forward from the carrier's island. Note flight deck details, including wooden decking, metal tie-down strips, palisade and flight deck distance markings. Aircraft wheel chocks are piled at the right.
788. "Last Moments of Admiral Yamaguchi". Japanese war art painting by Kita Renzo, 1942.Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, commander of the Japanese Carrier Striking Force's Carrier Division Two, elected to remain aboard his flagship Hiryu when she was abandoned during the early morning of 5 June 1942. He is depicted here in the middle of the scene as he bids farewell to his staff. Hiryu was the fourth Japanese aircraft carrier to be lost during the Battle of Midway.
789. Battle of Midway, June 1942. The burning Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu, photographed by a plane from the carrier Hosho shortly after sunrise on 5 June 1942. Hiryu sank a few hours later. Note collapsed flight deck over the forward hangar.
790. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu burning, shortly after sunrise on 5 June 1942, a few hours before she sank. Photographed by a plane from the carrier Hosho. Note collapsed flight deck at right. Part of the forward elevator is standing upright just in front of the island, where it had been thrown by an explosion in the hangar.
791. USS Ballard (AVD-10). View of the ship's forward portion, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 5 January 1942.Note details of her conversion from a destroyer to a seaplane tender, including: enlarged forward deckhouse; 3"/50 dual-purpose gun on the forecastle; four .50 caliber machineguns atop the midships deckhouse; 26-foot motor whaleboat stowed alongside the two remaining smokestacks.Steam is being vented over the side from a hose just aft of the midships deckhouse.
792. USS Ballard (AVD-10). View of the ship's after portion, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 5 January 1942. Note motor launch stowed above the main deck between the smokestack and the after deckhouse, with life rafts nearby; 3"/50 dual-purpose gun atop the after deckhouse; large propeller guards at her stern. Two submarines under construction in the background are probably Wahoo (SS-238) and Whale (SS-239).
793. USS Pensacola (CA-24). Alongside the Sand Island pier, Midway, disembarking Marine reinforcements, 25 June 1942. Aircraft in the foreground, with damaged tail, is a TBF-1 "Avenger" (Bureau # 00380), the only survivor of six Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) TBFs that attacked the Japanese fleet on 4 June 1942. Ship in the right distance is probably USS Ballard (AVD-10).
794. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Rear cockpit and .50 caliber machinegun turret of the only survivor of six Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) Grumman TBF "Avengers" that had attacked the Japanese carrier force in the morning of 4 June 1942. Seaman 1st Class Jay D. Manning, who was operating the .50 caliber machinegun turret, was killed in action with Japanese fighters during the attack. Damage to the turret can be seen in this view. Ship in the left background is probably USS Ballard (AVD-10).
795. Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Navy ships moored in an anchorage area, surrounded by anti-torpedo nets, 12 July 1942. Three ships nested together in the center are (from bottom): USS Ballard (AVD-10); USS Hammondsport (APV-2) and USS Vestal (AR-4). A garbage lighter (YG) is also inside the enclosure, at right.
796. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Yorktown (CV-5) sinking, just after dawn on 7 June 1942, as seen from an accompanying destroyer. The ship has capsized to port, exposing the turn of her starboard bilge, with a large torpedo hole amidships severing the forward bilge keel. Yorktown's forefoot is at the extreme right. Her starboard forward 5-inch gun gallery can be seen further up her hull, with two 5"/38 gun barrels sticking out over its edge. The two larger thin objects sticking up, just aft of the 5-inch guns, are aircraft parking outriggers. When the ship's wreck was examined in May 1998, both guns were still in position, but the outriggers were gone.
797. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Yorktown (CV-5) capsized and sinking, just after dawn on 7 June 1942, as seen from an accompanying destroyer. The ship has rolled over to port, exposing the turn of her starboard bilge, with a large torpedo hole amidships severing the forward bilge keel. Yorktown's forefoot is in the center foreground. The forward starboard corner of her flight deck is near the sea surface at extreme right, with the bow Landing Signal Officer platform extending upward from it.
798. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Yorktown (CV-5) sinking, just after dawn on 7 June 1942, as seen from an accompanying destroyer. The ship has capsized over to port, with her bow nearest to the camera. Her forefoot is at left, and her forward 1.1" machine gun positions, located just in front of the island, are very near the sea surface at right. Note froth on the water from escaping air.
799. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Portland (CA-33), at right, transfers USS Yorktown survivors to USS Fulton (AS-11) on 7 June 1942, following the battle of Midway. Fulton transported the men to Pearl Harbor
800. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Yorktown survivors are checked in on board USS Fulton (AS-11), after being transferred from USS Portland (CA-33) for transportation to Pearl Harbor, 6 June 1942. Note life jackets, which appear to be oil-stained.
801. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Fulton (AS-11) arrives at Pearl Harbor with USS Yorktown (CV-5) survivors on board, 8 June 1942, following the Battle of Midway.
802. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Fulton (AS-11) docks at Pearl Harbor on 8 June 1942 with USS Yorktown (CV-5) survivors on board, after the Battle of Midway. Among the tugs assisting Fulton are Hoga (YT-146) and Nokomis (YT-142).
803. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (2nd from left) on the dock at Pearl harbor, 8 June 1942, watching USS Fulton (AS-11) arrive. She was carrying survivors of USS Yorktown (CV-5), sunk in the Battle of Midway. Rear Admiral William L. Calhoun is in the right center, wearing sunglasses. Rear Admiral Lloyd J. Wiltse, of Nimitz' staff, is in the center background.
804. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Yorktown survivors board trucks for transportation to Camp Catlin, Oahu, soon after their arrival at Pearl Harbor on board USS Fulton (AS-11), 8 June 1942. Note Marine directing traffic in lower right and U.S. Navy bus in the background.
805. Kaga (Japanese Aircraft Carrier, 1921-1942). At sea following her 1934-36 modernization.
806. Kaga (Japanese Aircraft Carrier, 1921-1942). Steams through heavy north Pacific seas, en route to attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa early December 1941. Carrier Zuikaku is at right.
807. Battle of Midway, June 1942. A Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" scout bomber (Bureau # 4542), of USS Enterprise's Bombing Squadron Six (VB-6), is parked on board USS Yorktown (CV-5) after landing at about 1140 hrs on 4 June 1942. This plane, damaged during the attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga that morning, landed on Yorktown as it was low on fuel. It was later lost with the carrier. Note damage to the horizontal tail and dual stripes painted on the fin.
808. Battle of Midway, June 1942. A Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" scout bomber (Bureau # 4542), of USS Enterprise's Bombing Squadron Six (VB-6), on USS Yorktown (CV-5) after landing at about 1140 hrs on 4 June 1942. This plane, damaged during the attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga that morning, landed on Yorktown as it was low on fuel. It was later lost with the carrier. Note damage to the horizontal tail.
809. Battle of Midway, June 1942. A Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" scout bomber warming up on USS Yorktown, in the late morning of 4 June 1942. It is Number 17 of "Scouting" Squadron Five (the temporarily redesignated Bombing Squadron Five), but was apparently not one of ten "VS"-5 planes launched on a scouting mission shortly before noon on 4 June. Another of the squadron's SBDs succeeded in locating Hiryu, the only Japanese aircraft carrier of the Midway striking force that was still operational. The next plane, at right, is "VS"-5's Number 4, which did fly the scouting mission.
810. Battle of Midway, June 1942. A Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" fighter (Bureau # 5244) takes off from USS Yorktown (CV-5) on combat air patrol, during the morning of 4 June 1942. This plane is Number 13 of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3). otographed by Photographed from the ship's forecastle. Note .50 caliber machinegun at right and mattresses hung on the lifeline for splinter-protection.
811. Battle of Midway, June 1942. A junior officer poses with a 20mm gun on USS Yorktown (CV-5), during the morning of 4 June 1942. This gun is one of five in Yorktown's after port 20mm battery. Several SBD-3 "Dauntless" scout bombers are parked on the flight deck alongside these guns. Note the officer's leather jacket, goggles and barely visible rank bar on his collar. Also note the white rubber eye cup on the gun's open sight. These eye cups were still present on some of Yorktown's 20mm guns when she was examined in May 1998.
812. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Two crewmen pass the time with a game of "acey-deucey" on board USS Yorktown (CV-5), during the morning of 4 June 1942. They are playing on the working platform of one of the ship's eight 5"/38 dual-purpose guns. Note rubber mat on the deck below this gun mount.
813. Batle of Midway, June 1942. View of the upper after end of USS Yorktown's island, taken on 4 June 1942, during the battle.
814. Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Enterprise (CV-6) steaming at high speed at about 0725 hrs, 4 June 1942, seen from USS Pensacola (CA-24). The carrier has launched Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) and Bombing Squadron Six (VB-6) and is striking unlaunched SBD aircraft below in preparation for respotting the flight deck with torpedo planes and escorting fighters. USS Northampton (CA-26) is in the right distance, with SBDs orbiting overhead, awaiting the launch of the rest of the attack group. Three hours later, VS-6 and VB-6 fatally bombed the Japanese carriers Akagi and Kaga.
815. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6) TBD-1 aircraft are prepared for launching on USS Enterprise (CV-6) at about 0730-0740 hrs, 4 June 1942. Eleven of the fourteen TBDs launched from Enterprise are visible. Three more TBDs and ten F4F fighters must still be pushed into position before launching can begin. The TBD in the left front is Number Two (Bureau # 1512), flown by Ensign Severin L. Rombach and Aviation Radioman 2nd Class W.F. Glenn. Along with eight other VT-6 aircraft, this plane and its crew were lost attacking Japanese aircraft carriers somewhat more than two hours later. USS Pensacola (CA-24) is in the right distance and a destroyer is in plane guard position at left.
816. Battle of Midway, June 1942. View looking astern on USS Pensacola (CA-24) as she steams to the aid of USS Yorktown (CV-5) during the early afternoon of 4 June 1942. Ships following are probably USS Benham (DD-397), at left, and USS Vincennes (CA-44). Wake at far right is probably that of USS Balch (DD-363). These four ships were detached from Task Force 16 to augment the screen of the nearby Task Force 17 after Yorktown was hit and temporarily stopped by Japanese dive bombers.
817. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Ensign George H. Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospital, with a nurse and a copy of the "Honolulu Star-Bulletin" newspaper featuring accounts of the battle. He was the only survivor of the 4 June 1942 Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) TBD torpedo plane attack on the Japanese carrier force. Gay's book "Sole Survivor" indicates that the date of this photograph is probably 7 June 1942, following an operation to repair his injured left hand and a meeting with Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
818. Standing in front of a VMJ-252 R4D-1 (Bureau # 3143) at Ewa Mooring Mast Field, Oahu, 22 June 1942. All but one are members of Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221). They are (from left to right): Captain Marion E. Carl; Captain Kirk Armistead; Major Raymond Scollin, of Marine Air Group 22; Captain Herbert T. Merrill; Second Lieutenant Charles M. Kunz; Second Lieutenant Charles S. Hughes; Second Lieutenant Hyde Phillips; Captain Philip R. White and Second Lieutenant Roy A. Corry, Jr.
819. Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221) Pilots Posed in front of a camouflaged building at Ewa Mooring Mast Field, Oahu, 14 July 1942. Most are survivors of Battle of Midway air action. They are (Seated in front, left to right): Second Lieutenant William V. Brooks; Second Lieutenant John C. Musselman, Jr., Captain Phillip R. White; Captain William C. Humberd; Captain Kirk Armistead; Captain Herbert T. Merrill; Captain Marion E. Carl and Second Lieutenant Clayton M. Canfield. Those standing in back include (with one unidentified): Second Lieutenant Darrell D. Irwin; Second Lieutenant Hyde Phillips; Second Lieutenant Roy A. Corry, Jr. and Second Lieutenant Charles M. Kunz.
820. Shokaku (Japanese Aircraft Carrier, 1941-1944). At Yokosuka, 23 August 1941, shortly after she was completed.
821. Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942. Bombs burst near the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku as she was attacked by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes in the morning of 8 May 1942. Note anti-aircraft shell burst in left center, with fragments splashing below and further left.
822. Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942. Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku under attack by planes from USS Yorktown (CV-5) in the morning of 8 May 1942. Splashes from dive bombers' near misses are visible off the ship's starboard side as she makes a sharp turn to the right.
823. Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942. Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku attacked by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes, during the morning of 8 May 1942. Flames from a bomb hit on her forecastle are visible, as are smoke and splashes from dive bombers' near misses off her starboard side. Photographed from a Torpedo Squadron Five TBD-1. What appear to be erratic torpedo tracks are visible in the lower left.
824. Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942. Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku under attack by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes, during the morning of 8 May 1942. Flames are visible from a bomb hit on her forecastle.
825. Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. View taken from a Torpedo Squadron Five (VT-5) TBD-1 torpedo plane, from USS Yorktown (CV-5) during attacks on the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku, during the morning of 8 May 1942. Shokaku is visible in the left center distance. Anti-aircraft shell bursts are also visible.
826. Mitsubishi Type 00 Shipboard Fighters (A6M2 Model 21. Allied codename: "Zeke") Ready for takeoff from a Japanese aircraft carrier, 1942. This view was probably taken on board Shokaku as she prepared to launch aircraft in the morning of 26 October 1942, during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Japanese writing in lower right states that the image was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry.
827. Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet Portrait by McClelland Barclay, USNR, painted during World War II.
828. Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet Photographed at the Navy Department, circa 1942-44.
829. Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet Portrait photograph taken circa 1942.
830. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet. Portrait photograph, taken in 1945.
831. Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet, and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. On board USS Augusta (CA-31), during the Secretary's visit to Bermuda in September 1941.\
832. Senior Navy officers visit Saipan, 1944 Present are (from left to right): Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN, Commander Fifth Fleet; Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas; and Brigadier General Sanderford Jarman, U.S. Army. Aircraft in the background is a B-24/PB4Y-1 type.
833. World War II Joint Chiefs of Staff. At a luncheon meeting, circa 1943. Present are (from left to right): General Henry H. Arnold, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Air Forces; Admiral William D. Leahy, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; and General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army.
834. Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet Enjoys a visit with his classmates of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1901, at Naval Air Station New Orleans, Louisiana, 21 April 1944.
835. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, USN. Photographed during World War II.
836. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, USN, Commander, Task Force 58.On board his flagship, USS Lexington (CV-16), at the time of the Marianas campaign, June 1944.
837. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher (left), Commander, Task Force 58, and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas On board a U.S. Navy ship off Guam, 1945.
838. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, USN, Commander, Task Force 58. Is highlined from a destroyer to USS Randolph (CV-15) via boatswain's chair, 15 May 1945. This was the third time he had transferred his flag in four days, as his two previous flagships, USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) had both been badly damaged by "Kamikaze" hits off Okinawa.
839. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, USN, (left) Commander Task Force 58 With his Chief of Staff, Commodore Arleigh A. Burke, on board USS Randolph during operations off Okinawa. Photograph is dated June 1945, but was probably taken in May.
840. USS Saratoga (CV-3). Underway at sea, circa 1942. Planes on deck include five Grumman F4F fighters, six Douglas SBD scout bombers and one Grumman TBF torpedo plane.
841. USS Saratoga (CV-3). In Puget Sound, Washington, following overhaul, 7 September 1944. Note her camouflage scheme.
842. USS Saratoga (CV-3). Running full power trials in Puget Sound, Washington, following battle damage repairs, 15 May 1945.
843. USS Saratoga (CV-3). Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighters on the flight deck, as a TBM torpedo plane approaches to land, circa 1943-44. Note open elevator well in the foreground and flight deck crewmen chocking wheels of the F6Fs.
844. USS Saratoga (CV-3). Arrives at Pearl Harbor from the U.S. West Coast, 6 June 1942. She departed the following day to join USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Hornet (CV-8) near Midway, bringing replacement aircraft for those two ships, whose air groups had been depleted during the Battle of Midway.
845. USS Pensacola (CA-24). Disembarks Marine reinforcements at the Sand Island pier, Midway, on 25 June 1942. Note m1903 "Springfield" rifles and other gear along the pier edge. The Sand Island seaplane hangar, badly damaged by Japanese air attack on 4 June 1942, is in the left distance, with a water tower beside it. The surviving Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) TBF-1 "Avenger" (Bureau # 00380) can be seen on the beach, in line with the water tower.
846. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Japanese prisoners of war under guard on Midway, following their rescue from an open lifeboat by USS Ballard (AVD-10) on 19 June 1942. They were survivors of the sunken aircraft carrier Hiryu. After being held for a few days on Midway, they were sent on to Pearl Harbor on 23 June aboard USS Sirius (AK-15), arriving there on 1 July. Note Marine guard in the center background, armed with a M1903 "Springfield" rifle.
847. USS Langley (AV-3). Being abandoned after receiving crippling damage from Japanese bombs, south of Java, 27 February 1942.
848. Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., USN. Photographed circa 1941, while he was serving as Commander, Aircraft, Battle Force.
849. Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., USN,Commander, South Pacific Force Sketch portrait by Dwight Shepler, USNR, 25 December 1942.
850. "Victory Begins at Home!" Production incentive poster produced for the Incentive Division, Navy Department, by the Einson-Freeman Company, Inc., New York, during World War II. It features Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, and encouragement to "Produce for Your Navy".
851. Admiral William F. Halsey, USN. Standing in front of the U.S. flag, circa 1944-45.
852. Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., USN. Photograph dated 10 July 1945. It was probably taken at the Navy Department, Washington, D.C.
853. Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, Commander, Third Fleet. On the bridge of his flagship, USS New Jersey (BB-62), while en route to carry out raids on the Philippines, December 1944.
854. Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, Commander, Third Fleet. Reading at his desk on board USS New Jersey (BB-62), his flagship, while en route to conduct raids on the Philippines, December 1944.
855. Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, USN. Portrait photograph, probably taken in late 1945, soon after his promotion to Fleet Admiral.
856. USS Enterprise (CV-6). En route to Pearl Harbor, 8 October 1939. Photographed from USS Minneapolis (CA-36).
857. USS Enterprise (CV-6). Photographed circa 1940, with TBD and SBC aircraft parked on her flight deck, aft.
858. USS Enterprise (CV-6). Operating in the Pacific, circa late June 1941. She is turning into the wind to recover aircraft. Note her "natural wood" flight deck stain and dark Measure One camouflage paint scheme. The flight deck was stained blue in July 1941, during camouflage experiments that gave her a unique deck stripe pattern.
859. USS Enterprise (CV-6). Entering Pearl Harbor on 26 May 1942, following the Battle of Coral Sea and shortly before the Battle of Midway.
860. USS Enterprise (CV-6). Landing aircraft while supporting the Gilberts Operation, 22 November 1943. A TBM "Avenger" torpedo plane is on the flight deck, aft, while another is flying overhead.
861. USS Enterprise (CV-6). Underway on 24 November 1943, while supporting the Gilberts Operation. Photographed from USS Monterey (CVL-26).
862. USS Enterprise (CV-6). Anchored off Saipan, circa mid-1944, while painted in camouflage Measure 33, Design 4Ab. The photograph was taken from the flight deck of an escort carrier (CVE).
863. USS Enterprise (CV-6). Making 20 knots during post-overhaul trials in Puget Sound, Washington, 13 September 1945.

     Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941

864. A Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane ("Kate") takes off from a carrier as the second wave attack is launched. Ship's crewmen are cheering "Banzai". This ship is either Zuikaku or Shokaku. Note light tripod mast at the rear of the carrier's island, with Japanese naval ensign.
865. Torpedo planes attack "Battleship Row" at about 0800 on 7 December, seen from a Japanese aircraft. Ships are, from lower left to right: Nevada (BB-36) with flag raised at stern; Arizona (BB-39) with Vestal (AR-4) outboard; Tennessee (BB-43) with West Virginia (BB-48) outboard; Maryland (BB-46) with Oklahoma (BB-37) outboard; Neosho (AO-23) and California (BB-44). West Virginia, Oklahoma and California have been torpedoed, as marked by ripples and spreading oil, and the first two are listing to port. Torpedo drop splashes and running tracks are visible at left and center. White smoke in the distance is from Hickam Field. Grey smoke in the center middle distance is from the torpedoed USS Helena (CL-50), at the Navy Yard's 1010 dock. Japanese writing in lower right states that the image was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry.
866. USS Utah (AG-16). Capsizing off Ford Island, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft . Photographed from USS Tangier (AV-8), which was moored astern of Utah. Note colors half-raised over fantail, boats nearby, and sheds covering Utah's after guns.
867. The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, 7 December 1941.
868. USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, 7 December 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship.
869. Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is inboard of the sunken battleship. Note extensive distortion of West Virginia's lower midships superstructure, caused by torpedoes that exploded below that location. Also note 5"/25 gun, still partially covered with canvas, boat crane swung outboard and empty boat cradles near the smokestacks, and base of radar antenna atop West Virginia's foremast.
870. USS Maryland (BB-46) alongside the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37). USS West Virginia (BB-48) is burning in the background.
871. The forward magazine of USS Shaw (DD-373) explodes during the second Japanese attack wave. To the left of the explosion, Shaw's stern is visible, at the end of floating drydock YFD-2. At right is the bow of USS Nevada (BB-36), with a tug alongside fighting fires. Photographed from Ford Island, with a dredging line in the foreground.
872. The wrecked destroyers USS Downes (DD-375) and USS Cassin (DD-372) in Drydock One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, soon after the end of the Japanese air attack. Cassin has capsized against Downes. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) is astern, occupying the rest of the drydock. The torpedo-damaged cruiser USS Helena (CL-50) is in the right distance, beyond the crane. Visible in the center distance is the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37), with USS Maryland (BB-46) alongside. Smoke is from the sunken and burning USS Arizona (BB-39), out of view behind Pennsylvania. USS California (BB-44) is partially visible at the extreme left.
873. PBY patrol bomber burning at Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, during the Japanese attack.
874. Fine-screen halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1940, showing battleships moored alongside Ford Island (center and left), with cruisers and other ships also present. The Navy Yard is at the left and the Supply Base and Submarine Base are at the center-right and right. This view looks toward the northwest.
875. Aerial photograph from 2500 feet altitude, looking southward, showing the U.S. Fleet moored in the harbor on 3 May 1940. This was soon after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XXI and four days before word was received that the Fleet was to be retained in Hawaiian waters. There are eight battleships and the carrier Yorktown (CV-5) tied up by Ford Island, in the center of the harbor. Two more battleships and many cruisers, destroyers and other Navy ships also present, most of them moored in groups in East Loch, in the foreground. A few of the destroyers are wearing experimental dark camouflage paint. In the distance, center, is Hickam Army Air Field. The Pearl Harbor entrance channel is in the right distance.
876. Aerial photograph from 4000 feet altitude, looking southwestward, with the U.S. Fleet at moorings. Taken on 3 May 1940, after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XXI. This was four days before word was received that the Fleet was to be retained in Hawaiian waters. There are eight battleships and the carrier Yorktown (CV-5) tied up along the near side of Ford Island, in the center of the harbor. Two more battleships and many cruisers, destroyers and other Navy ships also present.
877. Vertical aerial photograph from 17,200 feet altitude, looking directly down on East Loch and on the Fleet Air Base on Ford Island. Taken on 3 May 1940, after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XXI, and just prior to the 7 May receipt of word that the Fleet was to be retained in Hawaiian waters. There are eight battleships and the carrier Yorktown (CV-5) tied up along the island's southeastern side (toward the top), with two more battleships alongside 1010 dock at top right center. Two light cruisers and two destroyers are among the ships moored along Ford Island's northwestern side. Seventeen other cruisers and over thirty destroyers are also visible, mainly in East Loch. At the seaplane base, at the southern (top right) tip of Ford Island, are at least 38 PBY patrol planes.
878. Aerial view, looking north, with the Navy Yard in the foreground, 7 January 1941. Ford Island Naval Air Station is in the center-left, and Pearl City is in the extreme upper left. There are about 27 PBY patrol planes at the seaplane base, at the lower left point of Ford Island. Aircraft carrier moored on the far side of Ford Island is USS Lexington CV-2). Other identifiable ships include USS Wright (AV-1), USS Curtiss (AV-4), USS Oglala (CM-4) and USS Medusa (AR-1).
879. Aerial photograph, looking east, with Hickam Army Air Field in center and Honolulu beyond, 13 October 1941. The Pearl Harbor Navy Yard is in the left-center, and Ford Island is at the far left.
880. Aerial view of the Naval Operating Base, Pearl Harbor, looking southwest on 30 October 1941. Ford Island Naval Air Station is in the center, with the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard just beyond it, across the channel. The airfield in the upper left-center is the Army's Hickam Field.
881. Aerial photograph of Ford Island, looking about NNE, taken 10 October 1941. The Naval Air Station occupies most of the island, with the seaplane base on the point at the near right. There are about twenty PBY patrol planes parked there. USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Curtiss (AV-4) and two battleships are tied up along Ford Island's southeastern side, to the right. The bright line, just above Ford Island in the center, points to the north. Aiea is on the far shore in the upper right.
882. Vertical aerial photograph of Ford Island, taken 22 October 1941. USS Saratoga (CV-3) is moored in the lower right center, on Ford Island's northwestern side. Three battleships and an oiler are moored along "Battleship Row", on the island's southeastern side. Another battleship is alongside 1010 dock, in the top center. In the extreme top right corner is the Navy Yard's Drydock Number Two, under construction, and the floating drydock YFD-2. Approximately 22 PBY patrol planes are parked at the Naval Air Station's seaplane base, on the upper right point of Ford Island. The bright diagonal line, just above Ford Island in the right center, points (down and left) to the north.
883. Vertical aerial photograph of Ford Island, taken 10 November 1941, with five battleships tied up along "Battleship Row" at the top of the image. USS Lexington (CV-2), a seaplane tender and a light cruiser are moored on the island's other (northwestern) side. Approximately 21 PBY patrol planes are parked at the Naval Air Station's seaplane base, in the upper right. The bright diagonal line, at the lower left end of Ford Island, points to the north.
884. Aerial view of the Submarine Base, with part of the supply depot beyond and the fuel farm at right, looking north on 13 October 1941. Note the fuel tank across the road from the submarine base, painted to resemble a building. The building beside the submarine ascent tower (in left center, shaped like an upsidedown "U") housed the U.S. Fleet Headquarters at the time of the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941. Office of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the Fleet's Commander in Chief, was in the upper left corner of the building's top floor. USS Wharton (AP-7) is in right foreground. Among the submarines at the base are Tuna (SS-203), Gudgeon (SS-211), Argonaut (SS-166), Narwhal (SS-167), Triton (SS-201) and Dolphin (SS-169). USS Holland (AS-3) and USS Niagara (PG-52) are alongside the wharf on the base's north side. In the distance (nearest group in upper left) are the battleship Nevada (BB-36), at far left, USS Castor (AKS-1) and the derelict old minelayer Baltimore. Cruisers in top center are USS Minneapolis (CA-36), closest to camera, and USS Pensacola (CA-24), wearing a Measure 5 painted "bow wave".
885. Aerial view of the Submarine Base (right center) with the fuel farm at left, looking south on 13 October 1941. Among the 16 fuel tanks in the lower group and ten tanks in the upper group are two that have been painted to resemble buildings (topmost tank in upper group, and rightmost tank in lower group). Other tanks appear to be painted to look like terrain features. Alongside the wharf in right center are USS Niagara (PG-52) with seven or eight PT boats alongside (nearest to camera), and USS Holland (AS-3) with seven submarines alongside. About six more submarines are at the piers at the head of the Submarine Base peninsula.
886. Aerial view of the Submarine Base, with part of the fuel farm in the foreground, looking southwest on 13 October 1941. Note the artfully camouflaged fuel tank in center, painted to resemble a building. Also camouflaged as a building is the most distant fuel tank in the upper left. The building beside the submarine ascent tower (in right center, shaped like a backwards "C") housed the U.S. Fleet Headquarters at the time of the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941. Alongside the wharf in right center are USS Niagara (PG-52) with several PT boats alongside (nearest to camera), and USS Holland (AS-3) with seven submarines alongside. About six more submarines are at the piers at the head of the Submarine Base peninsula. USS Wharton (AP-7) is the large ship at left.
887. Aerial view, looking west, with the supply depot in upper center, 13 October 1941. Part of the Submarine Base is at lower left; the Navy Yard is in the upper left; and Ford Island is in the top right. USS Holland is at left, at the Submarine Base. Alongside her are submarines Sturgeon (SS-187), Spearfish (SS-190), Saury (SS-189), Seal (SS-183) and Sargo (SS-188). USS Niagara (PG-52) is alongside the wharf, ahead of Holland. Ships docked at the supply depot, upper center, are USS Oglala (CM-4) and the S.S. Maui. Among the ships at the piers in the extreme upper left are USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS San Francisco (CA-38) and USS Antares (AG-10). The two battleships moored by Ford Island, in upper right, are (left) USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and (right) USS Arizona (BB-39).
888. Floating Drydock YFD-2. Arrives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 23 August 1940, after being towed from New Orleans, Louisiana. It is still marked "U.S. Naval Station New Orleans, La". USS Osceola (YT-129) is in the right foreground, assisting. One of the other tugs is probably USS Sunnadin (AT-28). An unidentified destroyer seaplane tender (AVD) is tied up at the Ford Island fuel dock, in the left center. Visible in the distance, moored on the other side of Ford Island, are (from left to right): USS Yorktown (CV-5), two destroyers, USS Wright (AV-1) and two light cruisers.
889. Kaga.(Japanese Aircraft Carrier, 1921-1942). Steams through heavy north Pacific seas, en route to attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa early December 1941. Carrier Zuikaku is at right.
890. Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier (reportedly Shokaku) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a "Zero" Fighter. This is probably the launch of the second attack wave.
891. Japanese Navy Type 99 Carrier Bombers ("Val") prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier during the morning of 7 December 1941.Ship in the background is the carrier Soryu.
892. The Commanding Officer of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku watches as planes take off to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941. The Kanji inscription at left is an exhortation to pilots to do their duty.
893. A Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane ("Kate") takes off from the aircraft carrier Shokaku, en route to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941.
894. A Japanese Navy "Zero" fighter (tail code A1-108) takes off from the aircraft carrier Akagi, on its way to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941.
895. Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on the ships moored on both sides of Ford Island. View looks about southeast, with Honolulu and Diamond Head in the right distance. Torpedoes have just struck USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma on the far side of Ford Island. On the near side of the island, toward the left, USS Utah and USS Raleigh have already been torpedoed. Fires are burning at the seaplane base, at the right end of Ford Island. Across the channel from the seaplane base, smoke along 1010 Dock indicates that USS Helena has also been torpedoed. Japanese inscriptions at the bottom indicate that this view was published by Osaka University.
896. Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance. A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are (from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee (inboard of West Virginia), Oklahoma (torpedoed and listing) alongside Maryland, and California. On the near side of Ford Island, to the left, are light cruisers Detroit and Raleigh, target and training ship Utah and seaplane tender Tangier. Raleigh and Utah have been torpedoed, and Utah is listing sharply to port. Japanese planes are visible in the right center (over Ford Island) and over the Navy Yard at right. Japanese writing in the lower right states that the photograph was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry.
897. Panorama view of Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese raid, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead. The photograph looks southwesterly from the hills behind the harbor. Large column of smoke in lower right center is from the burning USS Arizona (BB-39). Smoke somewhat further to the left is from the destroyers Shaw (DD-373), Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), in drydocks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.
898. View of Pearl Harbor looking southwesterly from the hills to the northward. Taken during the Japanese raid, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead. Large column of smoke in lower center is from USS Arizona (BB-39). Smaller smoke columns further to the left are from the destroyers Shaw (DD-373), Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), in drydocks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. This view appears to be a cropped version of Photo 897.
899. View looking toward the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard from the Aiea area, in the morning of 7 December 1941, during or soon after the end of the Japanese air raid. USS Nevada (BB-36) is in the center distance. Large column of smoke to the left of her is from USS Shaw (DD-373), burning in the floating drydock YFD-2. "Battleship Row" is in the right center. Largest mass of smoke there comes from USS Arizona (BB-39).
900. Japanese war art painting, in oils, by Tsuguji Fujita, 1942, depicting attacks around Ford Island. The original painting measures about 2.7M by 1.7M.
901. View taken around 0926 hrs. in the morning of 7 December, from an automobile on the road in the Aiea area, looking about WSW with destroyer moorings closest to the camera. In the center of the photograph are: USS Dobbin (AD-3), with destroyers Hull (DD-350), Dewey (DD-349), Worden (DD-352) and MacDonough (DD-351) alongside. The ship just to the left of that group is USS Phelps (DD-360), with got underway on two boilers around 0926 hrs. The group further to the right consists of: USS Whitney (AD-4), with destroyers Conyngham (DD-371), Reid (DD-369), Tucker (DD-374), Case (DD-370) and Selfridge (DD-357) alongside. USS Solace (AH-5) is barely visible at the far left.
902. Chart showing the positions of ships inside Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese Attack, at about 0800 on 7 December. The orientation of the compass direction arrow in the chart's center is turned approximately 45 degrees too far in a counterclockwise direction. Some of the ships moored in "nests" in the northern part of the harbor are listed in incorrect order.
903. Chart showing battleship moorings and positions of ships in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard drydocks, the direction of the initial Japanese torpedo plane attack, and the direction of movement of USS Nevada (BB-36) and USS Vestal (AR-4). The chart was prepared by the Bureau of Ships.
904. Torpedo planes attack "Battleship Row" at about 0800 on 7 December, seen from a Japanese aircraft. Ships are, from lower left to right: Nevada (BB-36) with flag raised at stern; Arizona (BB-39) with Vestal (AR-4) outboard; Tennessee (BB-43) with West Virginia (BB-48) outboard; Maryland (BB-46) with Oklahoma (BB-37) outboard; Neosho (AO-23) and California (BB-44). West Virginia, Oklahoma and California have been torpedoed, as marked by ripples and spreading oil, and the first two are listing to port. Torpedo drop splashes and running tracks are visible at left and center. White smoke in the distance is from Hickam Field. Grey smoke in the center middle distance is from the torpedoed USS Helena (CL-50), at the Navy Yard's 1010 dock. Japanese writing in lower right states that the image was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry.
905. Vertical aerial view of "Battleship Row", beside Ford Island, during the early part of the horizontal bombing attack on the ships moored there. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft. Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Nevada ; USS Arizona with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard; USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma moored outboard; and USS Neosho, only partially visible at the extreme right. A bomb has just hit Arizona near the stern, but she has not yet received the bomb that detonated her forward magazines. West Virginia and Oklahoma are gushing oil from their many torpedo hits and are listing to port. Oklahoma's port deck edge is already under water. Nevada has also been torpedoed. Japanese inscription in lower left states that the photograph has been officially released by the Navy Ministry.
906. Vertical aerial view of "Battleship Row", beside Ford Island, soon after USS Arizona was hit by bombs and her forward magazines exploded. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft. Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Nevada; USS Arizona (burning intensely) with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard; and USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma capsized alongside. Smoke from bomb hits on Vestal and West Virginia is also visible.Japanese inscription in lower left states that the photograph has been reproduced under Navy Ministry authorization.
907. Photograph of the western side of Ford Island and ships in moorings offshore, taken from a Japanese Navy plane during the attack. Ships are (from left to right): USS Detroit (CL-8); USS Raleigh (CL-7), listing to port after being hit by one torpedo; USS Utah (AG-16), capsized after being hit by two torpedoes; and USS Tangier (AV-8), Japanese writing in the lower left states that the photograph's reproduction was authorized by the Navy Ministry.
908. USS Utah (AG-16)Capsizing off Ford Island, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft . Photographed from USS Tangier (AV-8), which was moored astern of Utah. Note colors half-raised over fantail, boats nearby, and sheds covering Utah's after guns.
909. USS Utah (AG-16) lies with her bottom up at Berth F-11, after she was torpedoed by Japanese planes and capsized on 7 December 1941. In the right background is USS Raleigh (CL-7), also hit by a Japanese torpedo, which is being assisted in staying afloat by a barge and a tug tied up along her port side.
910. USS Utah (AG-16) capsized at her berth off the western side of Ford Island, after she was torpedoed by Japanese carrier planes on 7 December 1941. USS Raleigh (CL-7), which was also hit by a Japanese torpedo, is in the center background, with a barge and tug alongside.The hospital ship Solace (AH-5) is in the far right distance. Note docking keels on Utah's hull bottom.
911. Capsized hull of USS Utah (AG-16) off the western side of Ford Island on 12 December 1941, five days after she was sunk by Japanese aerial torpedoes during the Pearl Harbor Attack. View looks toward Ford Island, with Utah's bow at left. USS Tangier (AV-8) is in the right background.
912. Bow view of the capsized USS Utah (AG-16), as seen from the stern of USS Raleigh (CL-7) on 12 December 1941. Utah had been torpedoed and sunk during the Japanese attack five days earlier.
913. USS Raleigh (CL-7) is kept afloat by a barge lashed alongside, after she was damaged by a Japanese torpedo and a bomb, 7 December 1941. The barge has salvage pontoons YSP-14 and YSP-13 on board.The capsized hull of USS Utah (AG-16) is visible astern of Raleigh.
914. USS Raleigh (CL-7) being kept afloat by a salvage barge moored to her port side, after she had been torpedoed and damaged by a bomb during the Japanese raid.
915. USS Tangier (AV-8). Japanese bomb explodes some twenty feet off the starboard side of the ship, forward of the bridge, during the Pearl Harbor air raid, 7 December 1941.
916. USS Tangier (AV-8). Damage to glass windows on the ship's bridge, caused by a Japanese bomb that exploded off the starboard side during the Pearl Harbor air raid, 7 December 1941.
917. "The Japanese Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor". Charcoal and chalk by Commander Griffith Bailey Coale, USNR, Official U.S. Navy Combat Artist, 1944. At the extreme left is the stern of the cruiser Helena, while the battleship Nevada steams past and three geysers, caused by near bomb misses, surround her. In the immediate foreground is the capsizing minelayer Oglala. The battleship to the rear of the Oglala is the California, which has already settled. At the right, the hull of the capzized Oklahoma can be seen in front of the Maryland; the West Virginia in front of the Tennessee; and the Arizona settling astern of the Vestal ..., seen at the extreme right. The artist put this whole scene together for the first time in the early summer of 1944, from 1010 Dock, in Pearl Harbor, where he was ordered for this duty. Coale worked under the guidance of Admiral William R. Furlong, Commandant of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, who stepped from his Flagship, the Oglala, as she capsized."
918. View from Pier 1010, looking toward the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's drydocks, with USS Shaw (DD-373) -- in floating drydock YFD-2 -- and USS Nevada (BB-36) burning at right, 7 December 1941.In the foreground is the capsized USS Oglala (CM-4), with USS Helena (CL-50) further down the pier, at left. Beyond Helena is Drydock Number One, with USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the burning destroyers Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375).
919. View looking down Pier 1010 toward the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock Number One, in center, which holds the battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the burning destroyers Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375).Alongside Pier 1010, in the center middle distance, are the light cruiser Helena (CL-50), listing slightly from a torpedo hit, and the capsized minelayer Oglala (CM-4).Taken on 7 December 1941.
920. View looking toward the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard from Ford Island, with a dredge in the middle distance, 7 December 1941.USS Downes (DD-375) and USS Cassin (DD-372) are burning in the front of Drydock Number One, center, with USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) also in the dock, at left center. USS Shaw (DD-373) is burning at right.
921. View looking toward the Navy Yard from the Submarine Base during the attack. Submarine in the left foreground is USS Narwhal (SS-167). In the distance are several cruisers, with large cranes and 1010 Dock in the right center.Note Sailors in the center foreground, wearing web pistol belts with their white uniforms.
922. USS Honolulu (CL-48). Damage on the port side of the cruiser's hull, extending fore and aft about 40 feet from about Frame 40. It was produced by a Japanese 250 kilogram bomb that exploded about 20 feet away during the 7 December 1941 air raid on Pearl Harbor. The blast dished-in the hull five or six feet, resulting in heavy flooding inside the ship. Photographed in Drydock Number One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 13 December 1941. View looks forward, with the ship's armor belt immediately above the damage area.
923. USS Honolulu (CL-48). Drydocked at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 13 December 1941, showing damage below the waterline inflicted by a Japanese bomb that exploded nearby during the 7 December 1941 air raid.Note what appears to be a light toned paint scheme on the ship's side above the boot topping.
924. Planes and hangars burning at Wheeler Army Air Field, Oahu, soon after it was attacked in the morning of 7 December 1941, as seen from a Japanese Navy plane.
925. Wheeler Air Field and Schofield Barracks under attack, as seen from a Japanese Navy plane. Most of the smoke comes from planes burning on the Wheeler Field apron in the center.
926. U.S. Army aircraft destroyed by Japanese raiders at Wheeler Air Field. Photographed later in the day on 7 December 1941, following the end of the attacks. Wreckage includes at least one P-40 and a twin-engine amphibian. Note the wrecked hangar in the background.
927. Men examine the burned-out wreckage of a P-40 pursuit aircraft, near Hangar 4 at Wheeler Air Field, following the end of the Japanese raid on 7 December 1941. Note long blast tubes for the plane's nose machine guns.
928. Destroyed U.S. Army aircraft at Wheeler Field, Oahu, during post-attack cleanup activities. P-40 pursuit planes are among the types present.
929. Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane ("Kate") flies high over Hickam Army Air Field during the attack. Pearl Harbor is in the background, with smoke rising from burning ships off Ford Island and at the Navy Yard. Photographed from a Japanese plane.
930. A U.S. Army B-17E at Hickam Air Field, after landing safely during the Japanese air raid. In the background is a B-17C (or B-17D). Smoke from burning ships at Pearl Harbor is visible in the distance.
931. Wrecked Army Air Corps B-17C (serial # 40-2074) bomber near Hangar # 5 at Hickam Air Field, following the end of the Japanese raid. This plane, piloted by Captain Raymond T. Swenson, was one of those that arrived during the raid after flying in from California. It was hit by a strafing attack after landing and burned in half. Note bicycle parked by the plane.
932. Bomb damage to Hangars 15-17 and 11-13 at Hickam Field, Oahu, at 5PM on 7 December 1941. In the right foreground is a machine gun emplacement in a bomb crater. A Douglas B-18 bomber is visible inside the badly damaged hangar.
933. Damaged U.S. Army P-40 pursuit plane at Bellows Field, Oahu, on 9 December 1941, two days after the Japanese air raid.This plane is reportedly one that was involved in a collision on the airfield during a misty morning take-off attempt on 8 December 1941.
934. USS Ward (DD-139). "A Shot for Posterity -- The USS Ward's number three gun and its crew-cited for firing the first shot the day of Japan's raid on Hawaii. Operating as part of the inshore patrol early in the morning of December 7, 1941, this destroyer group spotted a submarine outside Pearl Harbor, opened fire and sank her. Crew members are R.H. Knapp - BM2c - Gun Captain, C.W. Fenton - Sea1c - Pointer, R.B. Nolde - Sea1c - Trainer, A.A. De Demagall - Sea1c - No. 1 Loader, D.W. Gruening - Sea1c - No. 2 Loader, J.A. Paick - Sea1c - No. 3 Loader, H.P. Flanagan - Sea1c - No. 4 Loader, E.J. Bakret - GM3c - Gunners Mate, K.C.J. Lasch - Cox - Sightsetter." (quoted from the original 1942-vintage caption) This gun is a 4"/50 type, mounted atop the ship's midships deckhouse, starboard side.
935. USS Ward (DD-139). Plaque placed on the ship's Number Three 4"/50 gun to commemorate its sinking of a Japanese midget submarine off Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Since 1956, this plaque has been on exhibit on the State Capitol grounds at St. Paul, Minnesota.
936. USS Ward (APD-16). Crewmen pose with their ship's battle "scoreboard", soon after the Biak Invasion, circa June 1944. Nearly all of these men had served in Ward since the beginning of the War, and were present when she sank a Japanese midget submarine just outside Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941.
937. Three civilians were killed in this shrapnel-riddled car by a bomb dropped from a Japanese plane eight miles from Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The attack took place in a residential district, near no military objective.
938. View of "Battleship Row", probably taken on 8 December, the day after the Japanese raid, with USS Arizona (BB-39) still burning at right. In the center is USS West Virginia (BB-48) sunk alongside USS Tennessee (BB-43). The capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) is at left, alongside USS Maryland (BB-46). A barge is outboard of Oklahoma, supporting efforts to cut free crewmen still trapped inside the battleship's hull. In the far right distance is the hulk of the old minelayer Baltimore.
939. Aerial view of "Battleship Row" moorings on the southern side of Ford Island, 10 December 1941, showing damage from the Japanese raid three days earlier. In upper left is the sunken USS California (BB-44), with smaller vessels clustered around her. Diagonally, from left center to lower right are: USS Maryland (BB-46), lightly damaged, with the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) outboard. A barge is alongside Oklahoma, supporting rescue efforts. USS Tennessee (BB-43), lightly damaged, with the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) outboard. USS Arizona (BB-39), sunk, with her hull shattered by the explosion of the magazines below the two forward turrets. Note dark oil streaks on the harbor surface, originating from the sunken battleships.
940. Vertical aerial view of "Battleship Row", beside Ford Island, on 10 December 1941, three days after the Japanese raid. Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Arizona, burned out and sunk, with oil streaming from her bunkers; USS Tennessee with USS West Virginia sunk alongside; and USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma capsized alongside.
941. Vertical aerial view of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 10 December 1941, showing damage from the Japanese raid three days earlier. In upper center is the floating drydock YFD-2, with the destroyer Shaw (DD-373), whose bow was blown off, floating at an angle at one end. The torpedoed cruiser Helena (CL-50) is in Drydock Number Two, in center, for repairs. She was the first ship to use that newly constructed dock. Drydock Number One is just below Drydock Number Two. It holds the relatively undamaged battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the wrecked destroyers Cassin (DD-372), capsized, and Downes (DD-375). Note dark oil streaks on the harbor surface.
942. USS Phoenix (CL-46) steams down the channel off Ford Island's "Battleship Row", past the sunken and burning USS West Virginia (BB-48), at left, and USS Arizona (BB-39), at right, 7 December 1941.
943. USS Chandler (DMS-9). Throws up spray as she steams out of Pearl Harbor at about the time of the Japanese raid on 7 December 1941. Chandler was at sea on that day, and returned to Pearl Harbor two days later. Note her Measure One camouflage, somewhat diminished in effectiveness by light-colored canvas weather screens and paravanes.
944. Naval Air Station Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. View looking toward the southern end of Ford Island on 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. Planes present include at least seven OS2U, two SOC, one PBY-5, one F4F-3 and two TBD-1s. One of the TBDs may be Bureau # 0289, which was flown by Ensign Theodore W. Marshall, USNR, during his attempt to follow Japanese planes back to their carriers on 7 December. He was awarded the Silver Star for the effort.
945. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Addressing the United States Congress, in a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. This photograph, from U.S. Office of War Information files in the National Archives, has long been identified as the President delivering his war message on 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. However, a note with the original photograph states that the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (Hyde Park, NY) has said that the view is not of that event. If that is the case, it may represent the 1941 or 1942 State of the Union Address, as the presiding officers (seated behind the President) are Vice President Henry A. Wallace and House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
946. USS Wichita (CA-45). Ship's Chief Petty Officers listen to the radio broadcast of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to the Congress requesting a declaration of War against the Axis powers, circa 8 December 1941. Note photograph of President Roosevelt on the bulkhead.
947. USS Northampton (CA-26). Steams into Pearl Harbor on the morning of 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese air attack. Photographed from Ford Island, looking toward the Navy Yard, with dredging pipe in the foreground. Northampton was at sea with Vice Admiral Halsey's task force on the day of the attack. Note her Measure One (dark) camouflage, with a Measure Five false bow wave, and manned anti-aircraft director positions.
948. USS Northampton (CA-26). Entering Pearl Harbor on the morning of 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese raid. Note her crew standing by her lifelines. The ship is in Measure One (dark) camouflage, with a Measure Five false bow wave. In the background, beyond Northampton's after turret, is USS Argonne (AG-31), getting up steam. The ferry Nihoa (YFB-19) is visible just beyond Northampton's bow.
949. Members of the Navy Court of Inquiry, at the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., during a session of their examination of the circumstances of the attack. In the center is Admiral Orin G. Murfin, USN(Retired), President of the Court. Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, USN(Retired) is at left, and Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, USN(Retired) is at right. The photograph was released on 24 July 1944.
950. Admiral James O. Richardson, USN. Takes the oath prior to giving testimony during a Congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, during World War II. Admiral Richardson was the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, from January 1940 until February 1941. He retired on 1 October 1942, but remained on active during the rest of World War II.
951. USS California (BB-44). Members of the Salvage Division discussing her salvage at Pearl Harbor, circa February-March 1942.
952. Members of the diving crew emerge from water-filled compartments of the sunken battleship Arizona (BB-39), at Pearl Harbor, 25 May 1943. They are removing elements of the ships armament and other items for reuse. Arizona had been sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid. Her hull was left where she sank, after removal of most of her superstructure and salvage of her after 14" gun turrets and other guns.
953. Divers emerging from a gas-filled compartment aboard one of the ships undergoing salvage, after the 7 December 1941 Japanese raid. Note oily conditions, and face masks worn by the men.
954. Divers standing in front of a decompression chamber, while they were working to salvage ships sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. Note warrant officer standing at right.
955. Salvager adjusting the discharge hose from a submersible pump in the sunken battleship's 14" magazine space, during refloating operations at Pearl Harbor, 12 November 1943. Note oil-covered structure and 14" powder tanks; and headlamp worn by the salvage worker.
956. After photographing the oil and mud smeared interior of the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) while she was under salvage at Pearl Harbor, 18 January 1943. He entered the ship through Number Four Air Lock, where pressure was raised to ten (lb.?) per square inch. An oxygen mast had to be worn at all times. Note his mask, tank suit, boots, gloves, and camera.
957. USS California (BB-44). Floating crane removes the sunken battleship's "basket" mainmast, while she was under salvage at Pearl Harbor on 13 February 1942.
958. USS Nevada (BB-36). Entering Drydock # Two, at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 18 February 1942. Sunk as a result of damage received in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid, she was refloated on 12 February 1942. Note oil staining along her hull, marking her waterline while she was sunk.
959. USS California (BB-44). Just after she was placed in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock # Two, 9 April 1942. California had been sunk as a result of the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid and was refloated on 24 March 1942. Note the mud on the ship's propeller shafts and struts and on the drydock floor below them.
960. USS West Virginia (BB-48). In drydock at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 10 June 1942, for repair of damage suffered in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid. She had entered the drydock on the previous day. Note large patch on her hull amidships, fouling on her hull, and large armor belt.
961. USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Commencement of righting operations on the capsized battleship, at Pearl Harbor, 8 March 1943. Photographed from Ford Island, where several large winches and tackle anchors were emplaced to pull Oklahoma upright.
962. USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Ship righted to about 30 degrees, on 29 March 1943, while she was under salvage at Pearl Harbor. She had capsized and sunk after receiving massive torpedo damage during the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid. Ford Island is at right and the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard is in the left distance.
963. "Farewell to Thee". Following Hawaiian tradition, Sailors honor men killed during the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu. The casualties had been buried on 8 December. This ceremony took place sometime during the following months, possibly on Memorial Day, 31 May 1942.
964. A Marine rifle squad fires a volley over the bodies of fifteen officers and men killed at Naval Air Station Kanoehe Bay during the Pearl Harbor raid. These burial ceremonies took place on 8 December 1941, the day after the attack. Note sandbagged emplacement atop the small hill in the right middle distance.
965. Liberation of Rome, June 1944. Crowds attend a retreat ceremony, in which the American flag that flew over the White House on 7 December 1941 was raised over the Victor Emmanuel II Monument in Rome, circa early June 1944. The monument is in the right background. Building at left bears a sign reading "Rome Area Command".
966. Photographic montage prepared for the 30th anniversary of the attack, 7 December 1971.
967. USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The marble northwestern interior wall of the memorial, with the names of the men lost with USS Arizona (BB-39) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.
968. Memorial to the eighteen Navy men and one civilian killed in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air attack on NAS Kanoehe Bay. Naval personnel who lost their lives were members of the station crew and of Patrol Squadrons 11, 12 and 14.
969. RAF Pilots, 1940
970. Drawing of the Hawker Hurrican flown during the Battle of Britain.
971. An attacker's gun camera records the disintegration of a German Heinkel 111 bomber.
972. A Londoner's view of the air war - the vapor trails mark the twisting turns of the combatants. June 1940.
973. An Artic convoy makes its way to Russia.
974. Ice encrusts the guns of a convoy's destroyer escort.
975. Jews are loaded into freight cars. Krakow, Poland.
976. Drawing of P-51 Mustang.
977. Map of landing plans for Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944.
978. American troops expectantly make their way towards the beach, June 6, 1944.
979. American troops struggle onto Omaha Beach under German gunfire.
980. Ecumenical prayer service, New York City, June 6, 1944. As word of the invasion reached the States, many spontaneously went to their place of worship to pray.
981. English civilians serve coffee to American GIs as they await word to cross the Channel to France, July 1944.
982. Flag removed from the body of an unidentified man on board USS Arizona. December 7, 1941.
983. The flag was raised on the UUS Arizona on December 7th and continued flying at the ship's stern until several hours after the attack. It was removed by several of the surviving ship's officers.
984. Drawing of the damage to the USS Arizona from the attack and salvage operations.
985. Japanese carriers ready for attack.
986. Japanese torpedo plane takes off.
987. Destroyer SHAW explodes.
988. Launch speeds by during attack.
989. Smoke from Wheeler field.
990. Photograph taken from Japanese plane.
991. Overhead perspective of Battleship Row.
992. Attacking Japanese planes over sub-base.
993. Arch of billowing smoke.
994. Fireboat assists in fighting fires.
995. 1010 dock during attack.
996. Seaplane base at Ford Island.
997. Attack aftermath at Hickman field.
998. Aftermath: USS Arizona from port bow looking aft.
999. Aftermath: The USS Arizona midships.
1000. The USS Arizona from port stern looking forward.
1001. One of the 14-inch gun tubes being removed.
1002. Rotating portion of turret no. 3 being removed.
1003. View looking forward on deck.
1004. Salvage team removing air mask and safety belt.
1005. Team about enter pressure lock.
1006. Salvaging powder bags from the UUS Arizona.
1007. USS Arizona.

      Battles in the Pacific

1008. Map of US Strategic Sites. (1 of 2)
1009. Map of US Strategic Pacific Sites. (2 of 2)
1010. Map of Soloman Islands.
1011. Army map of SW Pacific.
1012. Army map of Guadalcanal.
1013. Army map of New Guinea.
1014. Battle of Guadalcanal, Higgins boats. 3/28/42.
1015. The Slot to Bougainville, from Time, 1/1943.
1016. Army Map 10/1942.
1017. Hornet carrier sunk in Solomons by Japan suicide plan that hit tower.
1018. Destroyer helps Hornet.
1019. Port Moresby to New Guinea, from Time 1942/09/21

      Relocation Camps

1020. A map showing the relocation camps across the Western USA.
1021. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry spending their first day at Arizona War Relocation Authority center.
1022. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are given a preliminary medical examination upon arrival. (1 of 2)
1023. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are given a preliminary medical examination upon arrival. (2 of 2)
1024. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry is delivered to their barracks upon arrival.
1025. Buses arrive bringing evacuees of Japanese ancestry to War Relocation Authority center.
1026. This bus is stuck in the sand while on its way to Colorado River War Relocation center.
1027. Site No. 1 arrival of evacuees of Japanese ancestry to War Relocation Authority center.
1028. Group photo of evacuees. These may be people sent to the Rivers Center on August 24, 1943.
1029. Large crowd assembled to bid bon voyage to residents of Poston who left the project by bus and truck August, 24, 1943 for the Rivers Center, on the first lap of the journey to Japan via the Gripsholm, which had sailed from an eastern seaport Sept. 1.
1030. Scrap lumber will put to many uses by evacuees of Japanese ancestry upon their arrival.
1031. Women mixing cement.
1032. Constructing quarters for evacuees of Japanese ancestry at War Relocation Authority center on Colorado River Indian Reservation.
1033. Exterior View of the Kabuki Theater.
1034. Interior View of the Kabuki Theater.
1035. Two men are playing Go, while two other men observe.
1036. (Site # 1) -- Sprinkling in attempt to settle the dust at their War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry, Poston.
1037. First sick man at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry, Poston.
1038. Evacuee at this War Relocation Authority center, WRA official, at the microphone, Poston.
1039. Site # 1) -- This evacuee is fortified with an umbrella for protection from the sun, and high-top boots for strolling through the dusty streets at this War Relocation Authority center, Poston.
1040. Wade, project direcotr with Announcer Chet Huntley of CBS in a nationwide hookup at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry, Poston.
1041. Evacuee of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center, taking part in the CBS broadcast. Mr. Huntley of CBS is directing the program, Poston. Photographer:
1042. A group of evacuee children enjoying a game of Black-Jack at this War Relocation Authority center, Poston.
1043. Charcoal making. Evacuee workers warm themselves by fires made from this charcoal on chilly mornings.
1044. Dry goods canteen, Camp no. 1, Poston. (1 of 2)
1045. Dry goods canteen, Camp no. 1, Poston. (2 of 2)
1046. Two camp officials pose with five evacuees. Painted on wall in the barracks behind them is: POSTON Press Bulletin--CITY DESK.
1047. Photograph of the interior of the hospital barracks. Patient on crutches in right foreground.
1048. (Site # 1) -- Evacuee firemen getting drinks at this War Relocation Authority Center.
1049. Mosquito control spray unit which has been developed by Dr. George S. Kido. This machine has been adapted from a fifty gallon orchard spray. Dr. Kido is shown on the left, and his crew of operators on the right. The mosquitos in this section of the country are potential carriers of equine encephalitis, which is a form of sleeping sickness.
1050. Dr. George S. Kido, Ph.D. from the University of California, is shown supervising the use of his mosquito control machine. here they are treating a pond in the campaign to rid Poston of the mosquito menace. The mosquitos in this section of the country are potential carriers of equine encephalitis, which is a form of sleeping sickness.
1051. Desert view, Poston camp, under construction.
1052. Butte camp - looking to the Southwest.
1053. View of main street Parker, AZ. Near this desert town, the War Relocation Authority will maintain a center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry on the Colorado Indian Reservation. (1 of 2)
1054. View of main street Parker, AZ. (2 of 2).
1055. Canal camp.
1056. Dairy Farm School at the Gila River Relocation Center.
1057. Two evacuees playing GO.

      Battle of Britain

1058. Battle of Britain.
1059. Air Vice Marshall PARK.
1060. Service crew of Bf 109.
1061. BF 109 on flight nearby coast.
1062. Over target-raid near Thames.
1063. Service crew of Hurricanu Mk I.
1064. BF 110 over Channel.
1065. Ju 88.
1066. Defiant before takeoff.
1067. Crash of Bf 109.
1068. He 111.
1069. President Benes visiting Czech pilots.
1070. Spitfire Mk I before land.
1071. BF 109
1072. Service crew of Spitfire.
1073. Spitfires from 222.sq. taking off from Hornchurch.
1074. Spitfire attack.
1075. Spitfires takeoff.
1076. Hurrican of 310 sq.
1077. Hurrican MkI
1078. BF 109.
1079. BF 109 E-4 testing in England.
1080. BF 109 E-3
1081. He 111
1082. London 7.9.1940 over target.
1083. Spitfires.

      Pacific Air War

1084. Map of Pacific Air War 1941 - 1942.
1085. Battle of Midway.
1086. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
1087. Viceadmiral Nagumo.
1088. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
1089. Rearadmiral Frank J. Fletcher.
1090. Rearadmiral Raymond A. Spruance.
1091. Atoll Midway
1092. First fights.
1093. Rearadmiral Raymond A. Spruance.
1094. Aircraft Carrier Kaga
1095. Aircraft Carrier Hirju
1096. Aircraft Carrier Yorktown.
1097. Tree Dauntlesses are ready to take off.
1098. On the board of Enterprise.
1099. Preparing aircrafts on the board of Yorktown.
1100. Daunteless ready to take off.
1101. Zero leaving the deck.
1102. Yorktown under siege.
1103. Dauntless attacking Japanese carrier.
1104. Akagi in flames.
1105. Hirju under attack.
1106. Hirju hit.

      Photos from Rutgers

1107. Fleeing SS attempted to hide before the 89th Infantry Division liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
1108. American GIs gaze solemnly upon the horror before them.
1109. Typical identification card issued by the US War Department to all members of the military. The text on the right hand side of the back spells out the terms of the Geneva Convention. Image courtesy of PFC NathanShoehalter, Class of 1944.
1110. Typical ration card issued to US Army personnel in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Image courtesy of Mr. Shoehalter.
1111. This is a replica of a typical ration booklet issued to civilians during World War II.
1112. Page 1 of a typical ration booklet.
1113. Page 2 of a typical ration booklet.
1114. Page 3 of a typical ration booklet.
1115. Page 4 of a typical ration booklet.
1116. Page 5 of a typical ration booklet.

      WWII in Finland

      Aircraft in the Finnish Air Force

1117. Brewster B-239. Also known as the "Pearl of the Sky" and "Butt-Walther" in Finland.
1118. BW-393 belonging to 3rd Flight of LeLv. 24 in Suulajärvi airbase early September 1943.
1119. A restored Fokker D.XXI (FR-110) in Finnish Air Force Winter War colours in the Tikkakoski Air Museum.
1120. Canopy details of Fokker D.XXI.
1121. A preserved Bf 109 G6 (MT-507) in Finnish Air Force wartime colours at the Central Finland Aviation Museum, Tikkakoski.

      Finnish Airforce "Aces"

1122. Juutilainen Eno after having received the "Mannerheim"-cross in April 1942 posing in front of his Brewster B-239 numbered BW-364. Juutilainen shot down 28 Soviet aircraft with this particular Brewster (Alltogether 36 victories were achieved with BW-364).
1123. Karhunen Jorma with the 3rd Flight's pet dog "Peggy Brown" in the cockpit of his Brewster B-239.
1124. Sarvanto Jorma in the cockpit of his Fokker FR-97.
1125. B4 Hawker Hart.
1126. B4 Hawker Hart.
1127. B4 Hawerk Hart (rearview)
1128. J8A Gloster Gladiator
1129. Finnish infantry passing a destroyed Soviet tank.
1130. Marshal C.G. Mannerheim, Commander-in-Chief , 1939 - 1946.
1131. Mannerheim Cross.
1132. Mannerheim was elected President of the Republic (from 4 August, 1944, till 8 March, 1946), because he was considered the only person that could steer the country to peace.
1133. Finnish patrol in the woods.
1134. Finnish foreign minister Vaino Tanner.

      Holland

1135. Effects of war on child in Holland.
1136. Hilter proclaimed before the Reichstag in Berlin that Germany would leave Holland alone.
1137. Map of German troops crossing over the Dutch border.
1138. Planes over Holland as the country is invaded.
1139. Bombing of Rotterdam.
1140. Hitler put Austrian Nazi, Arthur Seyss-Inquart as civilian head of Holland.
1141. Anton Mussert, head of Dutch Nazi Party.
1142. Dutch producing illegal underground newspaper.
1143. Queen Wilhelmina fled to England.
1144. Queen Wilhelmina returns to Holland after the war.
1145. Map showing loss of the Dutch East Indies.
1146. Signs of strike, 1943.
1147. Striker Poster.
1148. Victims of hunger during winter.
1149. People digging of streetcar tracks to get wood.
1150. The Hague, 1945.
1151. Liberation.

      North Africa Campaign

1152. British Matilda Tank.
1153. American Sherman Tank.
1154. German Panzer III Tank.
1155. General Eisnenhower.
1156. U.S. troops landing in Operation Torch. 1
1157. US cannon fire.
1158. Tanks at full speed.
1159. Rommel with the 15th panzer Division.

      Pacific Campaign

1160. Map of the Gazala Battle and the fall of Tobruk.
1161. Map of the Battle of Alam el Halfa
1162. Churchill
1163. Allied POWs with hands tied behind their backs pause during the Bataan Death March. About 76,000 prisoners including 12,000 Americans were forced on the 60 mile march under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp in the Philippines. April, 1942.
1164. The Bataan Death March continues with Americans improvising litters to carry comrades who have collapsed along the road from a total lack of food and water. Over 5,000 Americans died on the march which began April 10 and lasted six days for some and up to twelve days for others.
1165. U.S. troops surrender to the Japanese at Corregidor in the Philippine Islands, May 6, 1942. A total of 11,500 Americans and Filipinos became POWs, including the commander, Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright. POWs from Corregidor and Bataan were among the worst treated. May 6, 1942.
1166. Map of the Japanese Empire at its height in 1942.
1167. A U.S. Navy officer at the periscope in the control room of a submarine. 1942.
1168. A periscope photo of a torpedoed Japanese destroyer. June, 1942.
1169. A Japanese torpedo bomber blown out of the sky after a direct hit by 5 inch shell from the U.S. Aircraft Carrier YORKTOWN which it attempted to attack, off Kwajalein. December 4, 1943.
1170. Marines hit three feet of rough water as they leave their landing ship to take the beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. December 26, 1943.
1171. Marine machine gunners repel a Japanese counter-attack in the jungle of Cape Gloucester. January, 1944.
1172. Mopping up on Bougainville. A tank goes forward as infantrymen follow in its cover. Each night the Japanese would infiltrate American lines. At dawn, U.S. troops went out looking for them. March, 1944.
1173. American Army troops of the 163rd Infantry Regiment storm the beach during the invasion of Wakde Island, New Guinea. May 17, 1944.
1174. Using a canvas tarpaulin for a church and packing cases for an altar, a Catholic Navy chaplain holds mass for Marines at Saipan in memory of those who lost their lives during the initial landings. June, 1944.
1175. A Marine patrol on Saipan found this Japanese family hiding in a hillside cave. The mother, four children and a dog had taken shelter from the fierce fighting in that area. June 21, 1944.
1176. A Japanese plane shot down as it attempted to attack the USS KITKUN BAY near the Mariana Islands. June, 1944.
1177. The USS PENNSYLVANIA along with a second battleship and three cruisers move into Lingayen Gulf preceding the landing on Luzon in the Philippines. January, 1945.
1178. Landing barges sweep through the waters of Lingayen Gulf carrying the first wave of invaders to the beaches of Luzon following a naval bombardment of Japanese shore positions. January 9, 1945.
1179. Marines of the 5th Division inch their way up a slope on Red Beach No. 1 toward Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, defended by seven Japanese Battalions. By nightfall, 566 Marines were killed and 1,854 wounded. February 19, 1945.
1180. Smashed by Japanese mortar and shellfire and trapped by Iwo Jima's soft black sands, amtracs and other vehicles lay wrecked on the beach. February, 1945.
1181. Across Iwo Jima's black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell cleverly concealed Japanese inland positions on the tiny volcanic island. Feb. 1945.
1182. Pilots aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier receive last minute instructions before taking off to attack industrial and military installations in Tokyo. February 17, 1945.
1183. 40mm guns of the USS HORNET fire at Japanese suicide dive bombers, the Kamikazes, as the carrier's own planes were raiding Tokyo, February 16, 1945. By the end of the war, Japan will have sent an estimated 2,257 Kamikazes. "The only weapon I feared in the war," Adm. Halsey said.
1184. USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes in 30 seconds off Kyushu, resulting in 372 dead and 264 wounded. May 11, 1945.
1185. Transfer of the wounded from the USS BUNKER HILL to the USS WILKES BARRE, off Okinawa. May 11, 1945.
1186. Marines unload a Japanese POW from a submarine which just returned from patrol. May, 1945. By the end of the war the U.S. held about 20,000 Japanese POWs.
1187. On Okinawa, just 350 miles from Japan, a Marine dashes through Japanese machine gun fire while crossing a draw, called 'Death Valley' by the men fighting there. Marines sustained more than 125 casualties in eight hours crossing this valley. May, 1945.
1188. A member of the Marine 1st Division draws a bead on a Japanese sniper with his tommy-gun as his companion ducks for cover while his division works to take Wana Ridge before the town of Shuri, Okinawa.
1189. A Corsair fighter plane fires its load of rockets against a Japanese stronghold on Okinawa. June, 1945.
1190. Japanese POWs at Guam, with bowed heads, after hearing Emperor Hirohito announce Japan's unconditional surrender. August 15, 1945. (Closeup of photo 176.)
1191. Allied POWs at Aomori camp near Yokohama cheer their U.S. Navy liberators, waving flags of the United States, Great Britain and Holland. August 29, 1945.
1192. Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. September 2, 1945. (Closeup of photo 199.)
1193. Gunboat.

      Pearl Harbor

1194. Pearl Harbor.
1195. Pearl Harbor.
1196. Japanese surrender.
1197. MacArthur speaks during the formal surrender ceremonites.
1198. Nimitz signs during formal surrender ceremonies.
1199. Japanese signing during formal surrender ceremonies.
1200. The last surrender of World War II - Anatahan, June 30, 1951.
1201. The final surrender on Saipan, December 1, 1945. Japanese Imperial Army Captain Oba surrendered his holdouts to US Marine Colonel Scott.
1202. US Military feeding program for Japanese orphans at Camp Sususpe (Saipan).
1203. Being repatriated to Japan from Saipan aboard the Tsukushi Maru, June 1946.
1204. Tinian, one of the busiest airfields in the world in 1945.
1205. The work of the US Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees) on Tinian.
1206. A Japanese destroyer receives a direct hit.
1207. Japanese survivors in the water.
1208. The USS Indianapolis.
1209. Testimonial of Wendell Wilkie. Interpretation: Wilkie deliberately demonstrates his anti-fascism because of his German background and fears that he will be accused of insufficient American patriotism. All of his pro-Soviet declarations carry a clear campaign message, since he hopes to ride a wave of sympathy towards the Soviet Union to the presidential elections in 1944. (1 of 2).
1210. Testimonial of Wendell Wilkie. (2 of 2).
1211. Russian document regarding US POWs.
1212. Telegram to President Truman. In the message of June 15 to Comrade Stalin, Truman reported the June 15 departure of Sun-Tzi Ven from the USA for Moscow via Chungking. .... Truman also reported that Hurly, the American ambassador to Chungking, was instructed to support Soviet proposals in this connection. Give Truman the following messsage from Comrade Stalin: "PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FROM PREMIER J. V. STALIN TO MR. PRESIDENT H. TRUMAN Received your message concerning preparation of a Soviet- Chinese Accord and your instructions to Mr. Hurly. Thank you for the measures you have taken. June 15, 1945."

      Photos from FDR Library

1213. Typical living area at Adak Island .
1214. Troops loading on transports for the invasion of Kiska.
1215. Training Camp maneuvers (1 of 16)
1216. Training Camp maneuvers (2 of 16)
1217. Training Camp maneuvers (3 of 16)
1218. Training Camp maneuvers (4 of 16)
1219. Training Camp maneuvers (5 of 16)
1220. Training Camp maneuvers (6 of 16)
1221. Training Camp maneuvers (7 of 16)
1222. Training Camp maneuvers (8 of 16)
1223. Training Camp maneuvers (9 of 16)
1224. Training Camp maneuvers (10 of 16)
1225. Training Camp maneuvers (11 of 16)
1226. Training Camp maneuvers (12 of 16)
1227. Training Camp maneuvers (13 of 16)
1228. Training Camp maneuvers (14 of 16)
1229. Training Camp maneuvers (15 of 16)
1230. Training Camp maneuvers (16 of 16)
1231. Interesting Patterns in money on the superfortress's $10,000 blanket, a voluntary and spontaneous contribution by employess to the infantile paralysis foundation.
1232. A record of Boeing-Witchita's 1,000th B-29 moving through the production lines.
1233. Favored by Warm breezes and under a blue Kansas Sky, a vast crowd attends the delivery ceremony on the Boeing-Wichita flight apron at 4:15 P.M.
1234. WWII Europe: Buchenwald, Germany: Concentration Camps; "Oven where prisoners were burnt, dead and alive"
1235. WWII Europe: Buchenwald, Germany: Concentration Camps; "Man stands next to pile of dead bodies, Christmas wreaths in background"
1236. Patton, Marshall, and Arnold, January, 1943.
1237. Winston Churchill (Far Right) during FDR's Trip to the Crimea .
1238. FDR'S Trip to the Crimea .
1239. Russian Premier Stalin talks with gestures to his Foreign Minister Molotov at the Palace, Yalta, Crimea, Russia.
1240. Here, on the deck of a U.S. warship anchored at Cairo as President Roosevelt conferred with the monarchs of three countries on his homeward journey from the Big Three conference at Yalta, Crimea, are John Winant (left), U.S. Amabassador to Great Britain; Mrs. Anna Bosttiger, President Roosevelt's daughter, and Harry Hopkins.
1241. FDR's Trip to the Crimea .
1242. Northern Pump Co. Plant, Fridley, Minn.
1243. "Roses for Everyone," at the presentation of the Navy "E" Award to Northern Pump Co., Minnieapolis.
1244. A capacity crowd at the presentation of the Navy "E" Award to Northern Pump Co., Minnieapolis.
1245. Painting the Navy "E" on the factory smoke stack at the Northern Pump Co., Fridley, Minn.
1246. United States ship-building .
1247. United States ship-building
1248. United States ship-building
1249. The "Graf Spee," scuttled off Montevideo.
1250. Winston Churchill at a conference in Quebec .
1251. Winston Churchill at a conference in Quebec .
1252. Winston Churchill at a conference in Quebec .
1253. A pilot in flight training in the Army Air Corps .
1254. Women working on a plane in the Army Air Corps.
1255. 37 m/m anti-tank gun at Camp Carson training camp in Colorado
1256. 81 m/m Mortar crew in action at Camp Carson, Co.
1257. Commando training at Camp Carson, Co.
1258. Camp Carson, Co.- Division Artillery
1259. Camp Carson, Co.- Division Artillery
1260. Training at Camp Carson, Co.
1261. Training at Camp Carson, Co.
1262. Commando training at Camp Carson, Co.
1263. Improvised jeep ambulance at a training camp in Camp Carson, Co.
1264. Commando training at Camp Carson, Co.
1265. Medical Corps training at Camp Carson, Co.
1266. Amphibian jeeps in operation at training camp in Camp Carson, Co.
1267. Commando training at Camp Carson, Co.
1268. Soldier in fox hole hurls hand-grenade at tank destroyer at Commando training camp in Camp Carson, Co.
1269. Gen. George C. Marshall and Gen. H.H. Arnold
1270. Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference
1271. Churchill arrives at Quebec
1272. Marching to the music of a WAAC band, barely visible behind them, a compny of MAACS passes in review before President Roosevelt during his visit to the Third WACC Training Center at Fort Oglethorpe, GA. April 17, 1943. The President saw 3000 WAACS parade past his reviewing post.
1273. President Roosevelt's Second American War Plant Tour at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark., the presidential procession passes between two rows of troops presenting arms. The Chief Executive visited this camp Palm Sunday, April 18, 1943, and attended church services with 3400 officers and men in the camp gymnasium.
1274. Wing Scouts. National Wing Commander for girls, Mrs. Harry T. Jordan. National Aeronautic Association. Junior Air Reserves.
1275. George Patton, "Hap" Arnold, and Mark Clark
1276. A war bond rally during World War II.
1277. A scene from an Army airport.
1278. Soldiers near an American Red Cross Clubmobile.
1279. Scenes fro them Water Safety Program for Armed Forces.
1280. WWII; London, England; "Shoutheast Air Raid Shelter"
1281. WWII; England; "West End London Air Raid Shelter"
1282. WWII: Europe; England; Air Raid Shelters; London; "West End London Shellter"
1283. Stettinius and Alger Hiss
1284. Harry Hopkins, Steve Early, and Chip Bohlen at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea
1285. 2nd from left: Vishinsky, 4th from left: Harriman, 5th from left: Molotov, 6th from left: Eden, 7th from left: Stettinius, 8th from left: Cadogan, and on right: Alger Hiss
1286. Saki: Secretary Stettinius, Gromyko, and Molotov scan the skies as the President's plane approaches the USSR."
1287. Vaycheslav Molotov, Anthony Eden, and Secretary of State Stettinius with the combined foreign office staffs. Usupousky Palace, Koreis, Crimea.
1288. Lend Lease
1289. Lend Lease - SS Daylight
1290. Lend Lease. SS Span Van Manilia ??
1291. Lend Lease
1292. WWII: Europe: France; "Bombing Damage"
1293. WWII: Europe: France; Paris; "American Soldiers in the victory parade"
1294. Here Pvt. Joseph Feft, Pittsburg, an Anzio beachhead casualty, manipulates his hook to move various checkers.
1295. Disabled veteran.
1296. Women workers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, turning out National and signal flags for the expanding Navy.
1297. MOTHER OF THE ASSEMBLY LINE - Clip spring and bodt assembly for .30 caliber cartridges at the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia.
1298. WWII: Europe; Francee: Invasion; "American Wounded"
1299. The latest type of a Grumman Navy fighter.
1300. Pfc. Hugo J. Wagner (left), Ferdernan, Indiana, and Pfc. Albert W. Weaver, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., in a pillow which had been occupied by Japs a few hours earlier.
1301. Domestic Price Control
1302. Training Flight Procedures - Army Air Forces - School of Air Evaluation, Bowman Field, Louisville, Ky.
1303. Training Dept. Procedure - Army Air Forces - School of Air Evacuation, Bowman Field, Louisville, Ky.
1304. Woman's Ambulance Transport Corps. S.Diego, Calif.
1305. Pensacola Hospital - Victory Nurses Aides
1306. Naval Ordnancemen receiving training at Arthurdale, W. Va., Ballard Aircraft Co. Inc. Training is done on replicas manufactured by Ballard Aircraft Co.
1307. Those buried in the United States Military Cemetery located at Kasba Mehdia, near Port Lyautey, Morocco.
1308. The villa in Casablanca where President Roosevelt stayed during his conferences with Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain.
1309. The Tricolor flies again over the Kasbah Mehdia, acient Portuguese fortress near Fort Lyautoy, French Morocco, although the fortress capitulated after three days fighting with American forces last November.
1310. Diapers made of sacks that were emptied of government wheat.
1311. Miss Myrtle Berheim, White House Secretary, holding a check for $70,000, which was written on the wood and metal wing flap of a Japanese airplane.
1312. Wreckage of bombed USS Shaw on Pearl Harbor
1313. U.S. Naval Training Staion (Lake Pend Oreille) Farragut, Idaho.
1314. U.S. Naval Training Station, (Lake Pend Oreille) Farragut, Idaho.
1315. A Presidential wreath decorates an American cemetery in North Africa.
1316. Typical soldier's life.
1317. Guarding against possible enemy air attacks, British troops are training African natives in anti-aircraft units. The instructors, veterans of the Batlle of Britain, have found the natives apt students and cool under fire. An African unit is shown loading one of the 3.7mm. ack-ack guns under the supervision of British N.C.O.s and commissioned officers.
1318. B-24 Bombers
1319. Literally a "supersonic test tube," the U.S. Navy's revolutionary stub-winged, projectile-like D-558 Skystreak was designed to fly at speeds never before attained by man-carrying aircraft .
1320. One of the redoubtable "Fliying Tigers" ready to take off from an Alaskan point in a Curtiss P-40 (Warhawk) fighter plane.
1321. Planes in an aircraft production plant
1322. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier at a North Atalantic port. Spotted on the snow-covered flight deck are Douglas DAUNTLESS dive bombers and Grumman AVENGER torpedo planes
1323. Woman worker applying the finishing touches to a flotation bag used to support airplanes forced down at sea.
1324. Woman standing next to a wide range of tire sizes required by military aircraft.
1325. Blind-folded and heavily-guarded, these Japanese arrive at Dutch Harbor, Alaska--but in the role of prisoners rather than fighting men.
1326. Soldiers of an Inf. haul their 37mm gun up a Mt. pass through the snow and over the rough terrian. Alaska.
1327. New York City's Aluminum Collection. The aluminum collected will be used to replace new aluminum in the manufacture of comsumer goods. Photo by Palmer.
1328. This collection was conducted by the Office of Civilian Defense and some of the aluminum obtained will be used in industries producing for National Defense. Photo by Palmer.
1329. Inspection of permanent mold castings following treatment is made by some of America's most attractive war workers.
1330. Assembling the traversing gear and bearing on a 37mm anti-aircraft gun carriage.
1331. Workers take a few precious minutes for some much needed refreshment from the plant luch wagon. At the left a 37mm anti-aircraft gun carriage is nearing completion on the assembly line at a War production program scene in a Pennsylvania plant.
1332. Hundreds of these precision cut gears roll off specially designed gear-cutters daily in the Bors plant of a large rubber factory.
1333. Loading anti-aircraft cases into a stress-annealing furnace to make them soft, uniform, and ductite-ready for succeeding machine operations.
1334. With the grade and dexterity of a master dressmaker, this attractive young woman fabricates "pup" tents for the expanding war army at the Langdon Tent & Awning Company.
1335. Rigging and inspecting of 8-man pyramidal tents which are being manufactured to rigid Army Quartermaster Corps specifications at the Schaeffer Tent & Awning Company
1336. Typical soldier's life.
1337. Typical soldier's life.
1338. Typical soldier's life.
1339. Typical soldier's life.
1340. Piles nearly to the roof and covering a huge area of floor space is the big stock of accessories for Army truck engines, such as air cleaners, oil filters, fan belts, and so forth.
1341. Line-up of United States Army trucks, ready for shipment to Army posts throughout the country.
1342. Here an Army ambulance takes a nose-dive down the almost perpendicular side of a high and tremendously steep hill which has been erected for the purpose of testing Army vehicles.
1343. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. by women workers.
1344. The building of assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps.
1345. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Scans of this boat manufacturing activity prior to the national emergency was used solely as a gymnasium and recreation center for plant employees.
1346. Reinforcing tail rigging of a new Ballonet type army barrage balloon.
1347. An overturned German tank lies in a shallow stream alongside a rebuilt bridge in war-ravaged Houffalizo, Belgium.
1348. Mountain-climbing U.S. medium tanks, manned by Chinese and American crows, use the Burma Road for the first time after the combined Allied offensive had broken the two-year Jap control of the only overland supply route to China.
1349. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and his USA airplane, the P-40, or "steam-chicken" as the bushmen call it.
1350. A soldier wading through water in China.
1351. Chinese workman at the U.S. Army 14th Air Force Headquarters uses the neck of the discarded light bulb for a drinking glass.
1352. Camouflaged and poorly equipped Chinese soldiers repell a charge of 50,000 Japanese along the Salween River near Burma.
1353. A look at "Burma Road."
1354. This Chinese woman does a thriving business in selling cigarette butts to the poor of Kunming.
1355. American sisters of charity were photographed as they left the Yukiang Mission Church to flee to the hills when they received word that a revenge bound army of Japanese was approaching.
1356. 80,000,000 Chinese Communists who inhabit thousands of square miles of Northern China and are ruled, in spite of the Kuomintang (Government of Free China) by Mao Tse-Tung and his Communist Armies.
1357. Mao Tse-Tung, leader of China's Communists, addresses some of his followers.
1358. U.S. soldier admires one of the two guardian Gods of the temple in the Western Hills, Hua Thing Sze.
1359. Mrs. Catherine Herbster budgets herself carefully. She buys those vegetables and foods which are plentiful and cheap.
1360. American soldiers, hardened and ready, lounge under full fighting equipment on the deck of a Coast Guard assault transport in the fateful trip across the English Channel.
1361. A Coast Guardsman clutches desperately at a fuel hose and a chain life line as he struggles to "dig his toes" into the deck of a tanker swamped under savage seas in a hurricane off the north coast of Cuba.
1362. Dante Electrical Company, Dantam, Connecticut. One of the many small shops throughout the nation making articles for the War production program.
1363. Vital tin and alloy metals are conserved by this procedure. Photo by Rosener.
1364. Conservation of waste paper will save millions annually for Uncle Sam. Photo by Rosener.
1365. Aftermath of a Japanese sneak attack on these three stricken U.S. battleships; from left to right: USS West Virginia (severely damaged), USS Tennessee (damaged), and the USS Arizona (sunk)
1366. Damage at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii from Japanese attack
1367. Jumbled mass of wreckage of the U.S. destroyers Downes (left) and Cassin (right)
1368. The hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the Axis. American women are rapidly taking their places on the industrial front. Here in this small factory, the owner's wife operates one of the machines making dies for incendiary bombs.
1369. A crowd at Douglas Aircraft Plant singing the Star Spangled Banner.
1370. WWII: Europe: England: Homefront Food Production
1371. WWI; England; "Huge invasion rehearsal unopposed by Nazis"; Preparation for the invasion of France, Europe;
1372. WWII; England, Europe; "Ready and waiting for D-Day"
1373. Alton Lee carries a shock of wheat across the broad fields of the Saugstad farm where he works from sunrise to long after sunset to help rush more food to United Nations' fighting men all over the world.
1374. WWII: Europe: England: Homefront; "Food Production"
1375. An interesting variation on the gingerbread theme can be made by substituting one-half cup of orange juice for the milk and one tablespoon of grated orange rind to replace the spices, however, to carry out this variation, mix the orange rind with the liquids rather than with the dry ingredients.
1376. Only one-fourth cup of sugar is necessary to make this dessert which serves six people.
1377. The crew of Old Glory pulls up a sizeable haul of fish. Almost all of this catch will be filleted and frozen for military and lend-lease shipment.
1378. Crew of 37mm. anti-tank gun, in training at Fort Benning, Georgia, clean and adjust their weapon.
1379. Bpmbardiers in training at Fort Benning, Ga. use practice bombs to learn the routine of loading a light bombing plane.
1380. This crack aerial machine gunner is part of an unbeatable combination. He has a fast, accurate gun--and the world's best in the way of plane and pilot.
1381. A lot of headaches for the Axis are packed in this combination of good American soldier and good American equipment. A medium (M-3) tank and a trainee of the armored forces completing the course at Fort Benning, Georgia.
1382. The irresistable roll of America's might new army is already shaping world events.
1383. A column of halftrac armored cars waits for orders to proceed to a practice engagement at Fort Knox, Ky.
1384. M-3 tank cew members, in training at Fort Knox, Ky., get extensive practice in meeting every situation that may arise on the battlefield.
1385. The "peep" (not a jeep this time) has a vital role to play in defense of America's shores at Fort Story, VA.
1386. Fort Story, VA coastal defense. Soldiers loads a 16 inch howitzer for target practice
1387. A 16 inch howitzer at Fort Story, VA and the men who operate it.
1388. WWII: Europe: Laval, France; Civilians; "Rebirth of a French Town"
1389. WWII: Europe: France; "Paris Buses Run Again"
1390. WWII: Europe: France; "De Gaulle Leads Paris in Victory Parade"
1391. WWII: Europe: France; Civilians; "Hour of Triumph: Parisians join the parade down Champs Elysees from the Arch de Triomphe"
1392. WWII: Europe: Lyon, France; "Nazi Snipers Scatter London Crowd"
1393. WWII: Europe: France; "Allied Soldiers Do Laundry in Captured German Pillbox"
1394. WWII: Europe: France; "Members of the Maquis Massacred by the Nazis"
1395. WWII: Europe: St. Lo, France; "German POWs in trench"
1396. WWII: Europe: France; "American soldiers watch as the Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again"
1397. WWII: Europe: France; "German POWs"
1398. WWII: Europe: Cherbourg, France; Civilians; "Scene from ruins of Notre Dame des Voeux."
1399. WWII: Europe: Grenoble, "FIRE! - Members of French Forces of the Interior carry out the death sentence of six young frenchmen convicted of collaborating with the Germans"
1400. WWII: Europe: France; "U.S. landing barge in English Channel en route to France"
1401. WWII: Europe: France; "Resistance to the Germans - French Army Returns to France"
1402. WWII: Europe: France; "Resistance to the Germans - French Army Returns to France" (2 of 2)
1403. WWII: Europe: Germany; "U.S. Soldiers in Geilenmerchen, Germany stringing barbed wire in the snow"
1404. WWII: Europe: France; "German POWs - Paris sees the Germans go"
1405. WWII: Europe: Germany; "American Troops - Thomas O'Brien of Middleboro, MA has his lunch in the snow"
1406. WWII: Europe: Germany; "U.S. soldiers take cover under fire somewhere in Germany"
1407. United States Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, La. fires machine gun on enemy during aerial fight with German planes somewhere in the European theatre.
1408. German civilians, under direction of U.S. medical officers, walk past a group of 30 Jewish women starved to death by SS troops in a 300 mile march across Czechoslovakia.
1409. WWII Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: "Two men sitting after liberation from Lager-Norhausen Death Camp"
1410. WWII: Europe: France; "German POWs - Captured Nazi General"
1411. Troops of the United States 7th Armored Division advance along a road towards St. Vith in Belgium, retaken in the final liquidation of the Battle of the Belgian Bulge.
1412. U.S. soldiers begin to uncover a comrade who has been buried in the debris of a building hit by a bomb during a Nazi air attack in the Cerasuolo area, Italy
1413. British tommie move guardedly through streets looking for snipers on the Italian front
1414. A sniper in the town of Cupa, Italy
1415. Last call to pick up suits and gowns before shades were pulled down in "Little Tokyo," in Los Angeles, prior to evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry.
1416. Exclusion order posted at First and Front Streets in San Francisco directing removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from the first section of the city to be affected by evacuation. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
1417. English girl members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service move armfuls of American rifles just arrived from US under lemd lease.
1418. Fitters are at work assembling an American light tank which has just arrived at an English ordnance depot from the US as part of a lend-lease shipment.
1419. Water-cooled machine guns just arrived from the USA under lend-lease are checked at an ordnance depot in England.
1420. Cases of American spare parts arriving at an English ordnance center as part of lend-lease shipment from the USA. English girls, driving trucks, help with the task.
1421. American twin-engine bombers, provided by lend-lease, are shown being hoisted aboard ship in an unnamed American port.
1422. Tommy guns arriving in England from the USA under lend-lease are unpacked by an ordnance corporal.
1423. Cases of TNT gunpowder shipped from the USA under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel 100 feet underground dug out of solid rock, in western England.
1424. American-built 155 mm howitzers shipped to England as lend-lease reach an ordnance depot on their way to action.
1425. Victory Corps. Along with their English course, this class at Benjamin Franklin High School in New York City is learning the basic principles of first aid. Photo by OWI.
1426. Victory Corps. The correct method of carrying a wounded comrade by some of the boys in the "Commando" course in Flushing High School in Queens, New York. Photo by Perlitch.
1427. This crack areial machine gunner is a part of an unbeatable combination. He has a fast, accurate gun--and the world's best in the way of plane and pilot.
1428. Members of the Victory Corps exhibited their best formations before Army, Navy and civilian officials in Silver Spring, Maryland. Photo by Liberman.
1429. Saturday's a holiday for most of the nation's small fry, but to these youngsters of Roanoke, Va., it's fat-collection day.
1430. What's a home without it's sidewalk scrap pile? Junior Commandos of Roanoke, Va., see to it that each home has given enough scrap to make the scrap collectors monthly visit worthwhile.
1431. A couple of husky Junior Commnados add to a neighborhood scrap pile in Roanoke, Va. Bedsprings, coal buckets, bird cages, stoves -- no piece of unused metal is safe from the hands of these patriotic youngsters, who are out to see that their older brothers in the armed forces have the guns and ships and ammunition they need to beat the Axis.
1432. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia, includes such methods of collecting as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells and guns and tanks with which to beat the Axis.
1433. Although her mind is far from vengeance to be wreaked on the Axis powers, this little lady is contributing to their defeat. She has gathered up an old bicycle tire and other odds and ends to contribute to the scrap rubber collection drive.
1434. At an eastern aircraft factory, Philip Leung, Chinese, Marcell Webb, Negro, and an unidentified White worker adjust the retractable landing gear of a pursuit plane on the final assembly line.
1435. From the aged and the youth, from the white and the Negro come the skills which will make America impregnable. A veteran employee in a eastern navy yard instructs a machinist apprentice in the operation of an important machine.
1436. Americans of various racial groups contribute to the war effort in a large eastern plant which produces propellors for military aircraft.
1437. Boys lifting jeep to repair it at their bivouac area near Manchester.
1438. Cpl. A.V. Sevinski, 301st Sig. Co., Bolling field, Wash., D.C., who makes his home at Dickson, Penn. is seated at the radio telephone receiver
1439. Pvt. Beverly is seen operating Signal Corps Radio on bivouac area.
1440. British tanks and crews line up on Tripoli's waterfront after capturing the city.
1441. American soldiers hands out cigarettes to captured Italians of the Bersaglieri Division near El Guettar, Tunisia.
1442. Wreckage of Italian hangers and airplanes at Castel Benito airfield ouside Tripoli.
1443. With "Jospehine," squadron pet, as his mascot, Lt. M. W. Carney of Churchlands, Va., prepares to give a new fighter plane just arrived in Africa its test flight.
1444. Ready to test out the new ships, called "steam chickens" by the natives, American pilots in Africa wait outside an airport hut made from a fighter plane packing crate.
1445. From the Warner Brothers motion picture FURY IN THE PACIFIC (1 of 2).
1446. From the Warner Brothers motion picture FURY IN THE PACIFIC (2 of 2).
1447. Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangements for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas.
1448. Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance. Mrs. Virginia Young (right), whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill.
1449. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley expertly rebuilds airplane engines. Although she is only twenty years old she has a private pilot's license and has made several cross-country flights.
1450. With a women's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job. Before she came to work at the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas, Lorena was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under Civil Service.
1451. Two sisters who left the farm to keep our airmen flying. NYA trainees at the Corpus Christi, Texas, Naval Air Base, Evelyn and Lillian Buxkeurple are shown working on a practice bomb shell.
1452. Mis Gladys Theus, one of the fastest and most efficient welders at the Kaiser Company Permanente Metals Corporation yards near Oakland, Calif., is sticking to her job until final victory is won.
1453. Mediterranean Beach Scene -- Members of the Women's Army Corps stationed in North Africa. Recreational periods mean time off from the war.
1454. Dolly" a proud "British Lioness" is fighting with allied front-line forces. She is mascot of a South African Pioneer Corps which is building landing fields in advanced sectors of the Western Desert battle area.
1455. Leaving her youngster at a well-run nursery school in Oakland, California, this war-working mother can devote all her thoughts to the job, knowing that the child will be kept busy and happy during the day.
1456. This young lady's mother works in a war plant. The youngster passes twelve hours a day from Monday through Saturday in one of the 35 War Nurseries conducted for war workers children.
1457. 2nd Lieutenant Frances Bullock applies a dressing to a wounded soldier's hand in an Army hospital.
1458. Nurse Frances Bullock wheels a wounded soldier back to his bed in the orthopedics ward of an Army hospital.
1459. An armorer's assistant in a large western aircraft plant works on the installation of one of the machine guns in the nose position of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane
1460. New Lockheed P-38 pursuit ships receive final inspections and adjustments on assembly lines outside a large western aircraft plant.
1461. A midget and a woman worker install control wires on a "Valiant" basic trainer at the Downey Plant.
1462. Grace Janota, former department store clerk, is now a lathe operator at a Western aircraft plant producing B-24 bombers and C-87 transports.
1463. Grace Janota, former department store clerk, was trained as a lathe operator by Rudolph Dolkas, who deserted the Austrian army as a sergeant in 1913 and came to this country.
1464. An airplane engine under special test in a secluded and carefully guarded woodland area near a Midwest engine plant.
1465. New York City Boys organize tin club. These patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane - and all in one day.
1466. Mary Miller, operator of a router at the Boeing plant in Seattle, drills holes in a part for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber.
1467. An Army sentry guards new B-17 F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the airfield of Boeing's Seattle plant. The ship will be delivered to the Army and the Navy after they have successfully undergone flught tests.
1468. A canteen on the grounds of a large western aircraft plant serves workers hot food, drinks and refreshments during the lunch periods of all shifts.
1469. These two men worked 15 hours each day, 7 days a week, and prduced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in 18 months. Photo by OWI.
1470. The labor-management committee of the Northern Pump Co. keeps a scoreboard to keep employees informed of the progress of the War Production Drive.
1471. A midget hard at work.
1472. George ("Randy") McCraw, decorating a Vega Ventura bomber. Every ship that rolls off the line carries a cartoon aimed at the Axis.
1473. A completed B-17 F heavy bomber is checked by final inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company before it moves to the flight line for rigid acceptance tests.
1474. Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American's Inglewood, Calif. plant.
1475. A landing gear, ready for assembly on a B-25 bomber, is rolled into place on the final assembly line of North American's Inglewwod, Calif. plant.
1476. Under the close supervision of a foreman, a new engine assembly is installed in a B-25 bomber at North American's Inglewood. Calif., plant.
1477. A women welder at the Inglewood, Calif. plant of North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for one of the huge tanks that go into B-25 bombers.
1478. Workers at a new bomber production plant.
1479. Riveting a center wing section for a B-24E (Liberator) bomber in the horizontal position at Ford's big Willow Run plant.
1480. Installing one of the four engines of a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber on one of the assembly lines of ford's big Willow Run plant.
1481. Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers.
1482. A shipping department employee at the Inglewod, Calif., plant of North American Aviation drills holes in a shipping crate for a "Mustang" fighter for the Royal Air Force.
1483. Mrs. Alene Green, of Deland, Fla., with two sons in the Army and one in the Navy, still felt she wasn't doing enough. So she enrolled in the Deland vocational school to learn how to put fabric on airplane wings.
1484. Two grandmothers are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida. Photo by Hollem
1485. The La Roe family of Austis, Fla., after a day's work for The Deland pool. Left is Mrs. La Roe, with her twe-year-old granddaughter, next is four-year-old Eugene, Clarence La Roe's son, and Mr. La Roe.
1486. The Deland industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top and its trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year.
1487. Jonny J. Jones show moving three of its circus animals from its winter quarters at the Volusia County fairgrounds in order to make room for the subcontractors in the Dealnd pool, who turned the fairgrounds buildings into a large war production plant.
1488. Myriads of lights at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company form pleasing star patterns in the shatterproof plexiglass windows of noses for A-20 attack bombers.
1489. Experienced assembly line workers of both sexes contribute to the production of A-20 attack bombers in the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, Calif.
1490. A Douglas A-20 attack bomber leaves the assembly line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant for transfer to the flight line and a test flight before delivery to the Army.
1491. Long lines of a A-20 attack bombers roll ceaslessly, night and day, through the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, Calif.
1492. Never too young to learn, these future homemakers receive first-hand experience in looking for point values as well as prices and information on labels when buying canned and bottled foods with War Ration Book Two.
1493. Facts the younger generation of marketers should know are taught this class in the Murch Elementary School, Washington, D.C. Catherine M. Rooney, 6th grade teacher instructs her alert pupils on the way and how of War Ration Book Two.
1494. A customer can use the ration books of the whole family. But the first thing she will want to know when she buys pork chops, pond of butter or a half pound of cheese is--"How many points will it take?"
1495. When the customer wants to have a cut of meat specially prepared, points must be given for the full cut as it is listed on the Point Table before it is boned, trimmed or ground.
1496. Scrap Rubber Drive. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Photo by Palmer.
1497. Some people preferred to sleep in barber charirs, paying $1.50 a night for the priviledge, or spend the night in the local movie which kept open for sleeping.
1498. Scrap Rubber Drive. All Americans are being urged to continue to donate used or worn out rubber articles to the nation's scrap piles. Photo by OWI.
1499. Young America, bare feet and all, made a gala event of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi parade which featured the drive for scrap rubber and metals. Photo by Hollem.
1500. The many tons of scrap metal and rubber collected during the salvage drive in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, were carried through the city in an impressive truck parade. Photo by Hollem.
1501. Butchers will pay householdersfor the fat and sell it to rendering plants where it will be processed into ammunition for America's fighting men. Photo by Ann Rosener
1502. A soldier of the home front saves all waste fats and greases so that they can be processed into ammunition for America's soldiers of the battlefronts. Photo by Ann Rosener.
1503. A member of the Washington D.C. Boys Club wheels in a load of old sneakers and arctics to add to the nation's scrap rubber collection. Photo by Liberman.
1504. Hundreds of junked cars were denied to the war effort by the Lennox Motor Company in Maryland. The owner refused to sell at the established junk prices. Photo by Freeman.
1505. Silk stockings which can no longer be worn are being collected in stores throughout the countryfor conversation into powder bags which propel the projectile in big naval and coast defense guns. Photo by OWI.
1506. The worn out nylon stockings in this barrel full of salvaged stockings will be reprocessed and made into parachutes for army fliers, tow ropes for gilder planes and other war material. Photo by OWI.
1507. Mrs. William Wood manages a one hundred and twenty acre farm in Coloma, Michigan, with little male assitance. Photo by Ann Rosener
1508. A Detroit Auto Graveyard -- junked autos and trucks to be shipped to scrap yards and then to the Great Lakes Steel Plant. Photo by OWI.
1509. A man working at the 24 inch lathe in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Photo by Vachon.
1510. Recovery of tin from squezzed out toothpasteand other collapsible metal tubes begins at drug and other stores where the critical metal is collected under the tube-for-tube exchange plan. Photo by Hollem.
1511. American workers give up holiday to speed Victory. The Blackwelder family celebrated Thanksgiving at their benches in a Glenn Martin Company plant. Photo by OWI.
1512. Labor Management Committee of the Anthracite Industry in Pennsylvania confering on ways of increasing production in the mines
1513. Worker attaching reflectors to the rear of the trailer frame.
1514. A package for Hitler. An infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va., prepares to hurl a pineapple of the inedible variety.
1515. Ready to make a shipment of pineapples to Hitler, Hirohito &Co. An infantryman at Fort Belvoir, Va., holds a double handful of deadly grenades that may one day blast open a road to Berlin or Tokyo.
1516. A new oversize trailer for war workers which holds 141 persons and is 55 feet long. Photo by Freeman.
1517. Faced with a ban on motor busses for sightseeing purposes, Jimmy Grace obtained a horse-drawn bus which makes daily trips to the point of interest of the nation's Capitol. Photo by Danor.
1518. U.S. Navy men sleep as they journey to one of the fighting fronts
1519. The Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture arranges for the worker's movements and pays for their travel. Photo by OWI.
1520. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, comprehensive clerical work is carried on between maneuvers.
1521. Taking time off between the shooting of scenes at the RKO Studios in Hollywood, Miss O'Hara helped collect more than 70 typewriters for future use by the Army, Navy, and Marines. Photo by OWI.
1522. Uncle Sam needs 600,000 typewriters for the armed services and is contacting all possible typewriter users to urge them to release "1 out of every 4" typewriters for Army or Navy services. Photo by OWI.
1523. Virginia Ludwig goes to work on a punch press, stamping out discs from steel strips. Her well-fitting uniform is devoid of unecessary pleats, trimmings, doodads - is just right for the job.
1524. Sgt. James B. Aets uses a quadrant to determine the elevation of the 155mm. Hawitzer, while Cpl. Charles J. Hines sights on the aiming stake.
1525. Women pick cotton for the U.S. Crop Corps. Photo by OWI
1526. Iceberg crosses path of U. S. Antarctic Expedition. The USS Yancy (left center) and the USS Merrick (right center) follow the US Coast Guard icebreaker Northwind through icefloes and past huge tabular icebergs in an Antarcticsea.
1527. US Navy Antarctic Expedition Helicopter returns from survey of South Pole waters. The Coast Guard helicopter is shown landing on the icebreaker Northwind. In the distanc are other ships of Task Force 68.
1528. Since Pearl Harbor, students are constructing scale model planes to Navy specifications, to be used in training military and civilian personnel to be familiar with all types of planes. Photo by Palmer.
1529. Training in marksmanship helps girls at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, Calif., develop into responsible women. Part of Victory Corps activities there, rifle practice encourages girls to be accurate in handling firearms.
1530. Frequent watering of the Victory Garden is necessary during the early stages of growth. Photo by Ann Rosener.
1531. Victory Gardens. Where the Nazi's sowed death, a Londoner and his wife have sown life-giving vegetables in a London Bomb crater. Official British Photo from OWI.
1532. Victory Gardens. Professor Harry Nelson of San Fransico gives his daughter and her Girl Scout friends some pointers in transplanting young vegetables. Photo by OWI.
1533. When land was sighted, even the wounded left their beds to have the forst glimpse of home.
1534. It's homeward bound and every foot of the huge transport is utilized by the veterans as they pass the time away.
1535. A young woman sells war bonds and stamps and distributes War Production Drive literature.
1536. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop. Photo by Ann Rosener
1537. This former salesgirl, librarian, and sixth-grade school teacher has been repairing and servicing cars which used to be only open jobs for men. Photo by Ann Rosener.
1538. A mother and grandmother listening to News Broadcasts and Bing Crosby.
1539. Women man America's machines in a west coast airplane factory, where the swing shift of drill press operators is composed almost entirely of women.
1540. Women car operator in Baltimore. Photo by OWI.
1541. Her mind's on her work - and on her country. That small flag tells the story of this young woman's absorption in her job. Employed by a midwest drill and tool plant, she's grinding points on drills which will be used in the production of America's ships and planes and guns.
1542. Buffalo, NY. Symington-Gould, maker of ship, tank, and railroad parts. Operator of a 5 ton crane in the Finishing Department who operated a crane in the same plant in the last war.
1543. Transportation units in the Army.
1544. 76,606 College students and teachers will do war work this Summer in laboratories of the Nation's Food processing plants.
1545. U.S Soldiers run painful race back to health. Getting over these foot-high hurdles is no easy task for Pvt. Ralph Johnson of Pittsburg, PA who needs the strong arm of Sgt. D. D. Gilbert of Philadelphia.
1546. An Army truck stuck in the mud.
1547. Workers assembling the bottom of an aircraft.
1548. When Joe Smith goes down to the barber shop (after July 1) for a haircut, shave and shine, only the price of the shine will be controlled by OPS's price control order.
1549. Anna Samet is one of hundreds of tenants of New York's East Side market places who are cooperating with their government by displaying prominently their price ceiling listings.
1550. A poster in bold, clear letter, beside the meat counter is the easiest way for a retailer to display his ceiling on meats, which are included among the cost-of-living commodities in the General Maximum Price Regulation.
1551. WWII: Europe: France; "German POWs - 10,000 Nazi Prisoners"
1552. WWII: Europe: Germany; "German POWs - captured by American Airborne troops in the Ruhr"
1553. French soldiers stand guard at the entrance to the hospital for German wounded.
1554. WWII: Europe: France; "German POWs - Fearful Youth"
1555. WWII: Europe: Germany; " 1,200 U.S. soldiers escape from POW camp at Limburg, Germany"
1556. WWII: Europe: Wetzlar, Germany; " Freed Allied soldiers pose under various signsthey have erected at Dulag-Luft"
1557. WWII: Europe: Wetzlar, Germany; "Sgt. Edward Hill, Manchester, England, captured five years ago at Dunkerque was freed when American Seventh Armored Division, First Army captured Dulag-Luft POW Camp"
1558. WWII: "German POWs board a train in Boston"
1559. German POW's captured by the U.S. 82nd Airborne division in Belgium.
1560. WWII: Europw: Germany; "German POWs - German yells for help after his submarine is sunk in the Atlantic by U.S. Coast Gurad Cutter. The sub was just about to attack an Allied convoy"
1561. WWII: Europe; Brest, France; "German Officers led back after talk with Allied Officers"
1562. WWII: Europw: Germany; "German POWs - Desolate wounded Nazi captured near Korrenzig by U.S. Ninth Army Sector"
1563. Axis prisoners of war are herded out of the city as Allied armies enter Tunis.
1564. Workers installing rings on pistons for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines in a large eastern plant.
1565. Two workers installing single row intake pipes on a new Pratt and Whitney airplane engine in a big Eastern plant.
1566. Workers installing cylinders on a new Pratt and Whitney airplane engine at a large eastern plant that has the task of supplying planes for the Air Force.
1567. Both men and women man the machines which are turning out parts for America's bomber planes at Willow Run, Mich.
1568. Women are welders discuss the production of motor mounts and welded parts in a welding booth at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation, Inc. The plant produces B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bombers and P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes.
1569. The Army Air Force insignia, a white star on a blue field, has just been painted on the fuselage of a B-25 bomber at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, Calif.
1570. Joe Cobb, former "fat boy" in the original "Our Gang" comedies, now helps build B-25 bombers at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation.
1571. North American Aviation's wing assembly department in Inglewood, Calif.
1572. Men and women employees on the "swing shift" of North American's Inglewood, Calif., aircraft plant enjoy their lunch periods.
1573. Varied programs are presented at North American's Inglewood, Calif., plant during lunch periods. Here thousands watch a boxing match between two employees.
1574. Thousands of North American employees came through those gates at the Inglewood, Calif., plant each day. Employees must display their badges and identification cards before admittance.
1575. Stockroom at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company.
1576. White" & "Black" work side by side - North American Aviation Co. Plant
1577. Man and women joining in producing a vital military aircraft at the big Douglas plant in Long Beach, Calif.
1578. Women become skilled shop technicians at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft who produces the B-17F, A-20 and C-47.
1579. Inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company where they check all assembly work minutely to assure that dependable planes will go to our men at the front.
1580. Man and a woman making an efficient operating on riveting at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company.
1581. Women take over the operation of some of the heaviest machine tools at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation, Inc. Day and night, shifts of girl employees use this huge hydraulic press to form thousands of sheet metal parts for United Nations war planes.
1582. Members of the experimental staff at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation, Inc., observing wind tunnel tests on an accurate scale model of a B-25 9'Billy Mitchell") bomber.
1583. A clerk in one of the Inglewood, Calif., stock rooms of North American Aviation Inc., checks parts for a sub-assembly department.
1584. Wooden wheels are attached to a P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane so it may be moved around the ramp at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation, Inc.
1585. A Japanese fighting plane shot down during the attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska in early June, before shipment to the United States.
1586. Eleven football players who have gained national recognition on the gridiron are now undergoing Marine Corps training at Parris Island,SC. They are left to right, Tommy Davis, Duke; Mike Micka, Colgate; Bert Gianelli, Coll. of Pacific; Elmer Jones, Franklin and Marshall; Alex Agase, Purdue; Pat Preston, Duke; Ralph Heywood, USC; (Backfield) Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame; John Podesto, Coll. of Pacific; Tony Butkovich, Purdue; Mickey McCardle, USC.
1587. Gyrene glider pilots in training at Page Field, Parris Island.
1588. Marine Corps Gliders for student pilots at Page Field.
1589. King Ibn Saud's sheep on the USS Murphy
1590. Two women helping in the war effort. Photo by AAF Technical Training Command.
1591. Scrap Rubber Drive.
1592. Scrap Rubber Drive.
1593. Scrap Rubber Drive.
1594. London
1595. WWII: Europe: Germany; "Nazi Hierarchy: Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Hess"; The Desperate Years p143
1596. Chinese soldiers poorly armed, snuggled close to the land as their camouflaged caps indicate.
1597. One of 50 old Destroyers crossing Atlantic for new duties under British flag, Fall of 1940.
1598. WWII: Europe: Germany; Civil Defense; "Germans prepare for British offensive by covering monuments - Here King Frederic of Prussia is surrounded by concrete walls"
1599. WWII: Europe: Germany; Civil Defense; "Germans cmoflauge radio tower near Kaiserdamm"
1600. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1601. WWII: Europe: France; "Into the Jaws of Death - U.S. Troops wading through water and Nazi gunfire"
1602. Near Algiers, "Torch" troops hit the beaches behind a large American flag "Left" hoping for the French Army not fire on it.
1603. Douglas C-54 at Medouina Airport
1604. Gunners from the British Navy are being instructed by American Naval gunners in the operation of a secret device that is part of the guns aboard the over-age Destroyers turned over too Britain in exchange for Naval & Air bases. The photo was taken at a Canadian port
1605. Newspaper headlines of Japanese Relocation
1606. Baggage check during Japanese Relocation
1607. Evacuation sale during Japanese Relocation
1608. Japanese near trains during Relocation
1609. Baggage of Japanese during Relocation
1610. Housing in a Japanese Relocation camp
1611. A Japanese man smoking a cigar during Relocation.
1612. WWII; Homefront; England; Europe; "Bomb Damage"
1613. WWII: Europe: France; "U.S> Troops land at Normandy"
1614. United States bombing raid over a German city
1615. Japanese in or near trucks during Relocation
1616. Children in an assembly hall at Amache Elementary School
1617. The bodies of Belgium men, women, and children, killed by the Nazis, await indentification before burial. (As the Germans launched a counter-offensive into Luxemburg and Belgium, their vengance was wreaked upon innocent Belgium civilians.
1618. Bodies of U.S. officers and soldiers slained by the Nazis after capture near Malmedy, Belgium.
1619. Scrap Rubber Drive. Bing Crosby.
1620. Italian nationals in a US Detention camp.
1621. Recovered paper ballon and equipment which was reflected. This particular ballon was forced to the ground by a Naval airplane and found in very good physical condition. Montana
1622. Victory Garden Program. Secretary Plowing Boston Common.
1623. General George Patton and two other officers
1624. Elliot Roosevelt and FDR Jr.
1625. Hopkins and Patton
1626. WWII: Europe; France: Invasion; "American Wounded"
1627. WWII: Europe: Near Toulon, France; "Weapons & Fortificcations - Long Range Naval Gun"
1628. Suki Airport, Crimea, Yalta
1629. Edward Stettinius, Anthony Eden, and Averell Harriman
1630. The Prime Minister in behalf of King George VI of Great Britain, presents The Sword of Stalingrad to Stalin, for the citizens of Stalingrad, in the board room of the Russian Embacy at Teheram.
1631. USO Club in Puerto Rico celebrating FDR's Birthday.
1632. Navy Frogman
1633. The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1634. German officers sign unconditional surrender in Reims, France. (Bottom) - Allied force leaders at the signing.
1635. Colonal General Gustaf Jodl, Chief of Staff under the Doenitz Regime, signs the document of unconditional surrender. On Jodl's left is General Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and on the right is Major Wilhelm Oxenius of the German General Staff. Behind Von Friedeburg is Maj. Gen. K.W.D. Strong, G-2, SHAEF.
1636. US troops aboard the USS Gen. Harry Taylor reverse their route back to NY
1637. Near East Iran - truck convoy of US supplies for USSR.
1638. WWII: Europe: Germany; "U.S. First Army at Remagen Bridge before four hours before it collapsed into the Rhine"
1639. WWII: Europe: Germany; "U.S. Third Army iruns throuhg smoke filled streets in Wernberg"
1640. WWII: Europe: Germany; "U.S. First Army at Remagen Bridge"
1641. WWII Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: "Piles of dead prisoners"
1642. WWII: Europe: France; "Private James E. Boyle, South Wales, Drives Fellow British Soldiers on Train Tracks"
1643. These soldiers go up in the air to prove that the Army's new quarter ton truck can take it.
1644. Boeing B-17

      Battle of Britain

1645. Carrying Army supplies.
1646. Big Ben
1647. Burning London docks near Tower Bridge.
1648. Burning building with double-decker bus.
1649. Fun in the bomb shelter.
1650. Life as usual with burning rubble.
1651. Putting out a fire.
1652. St. Paul's Cathedral amidst the German bombing.
1653. V-1 rocket minutes away from hitting its target.

      WWII Physicists

1654. Leo Szilard. In the summer of 1939, six months after the discovery of uranium fission, American newspapers and magazines openly discussed the prospect of atomic energy. However, most American physicits doubted that atomic energy or atomic bombs were realistic possibilities. No official US atomic energy project existed. Leo Szilard was profoundly disturbed by the lack of American action. If atomic bombs were possible, as he believed they were, Nazi Germany might gain an unbeatable lead in developing them. It was especially troubling that Germany had stopped the sale of uranium ore from occupied Czechoslovakia. Unable to find official support, and unable to convince Enrico Fermi of the need to continue experiments, Szilard turned to his old friend Albert Einstein.
1655. Albert Einstein.
1656. Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard.
1657. Einstein's letter to (page 1 of 2) Einstein's letter did not reach the President quickly, nor did it have much effect. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and World War II began. The President appointed a "Uranium Committee" but it approved only $6,000 to buy graphite and uranium for experiments Szilard proposed. For the next two years, official skepticism continued to stall US research efforts. A large-scale US atomic projected did not begin until December 6, 1941, one day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It became the "Manhattan" Project in August 1942.
1658. Einstein's letter to (page 2 of 2)

      Pictures from Military Trinity Site

1659. Graph comparing deaths by the atom bomb to other deaths during WWII.
1660. Picture of Klaus Fuchs in East Germany in 1960. Fuchs, a refugee Germany physicist, and Communist Party member was employed by the United Kingdom atomic energy program during WWII and was sent to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. (He is also the famous "Atom Spy" who transferred to the Soviet Union, via Harry Gold and the Rosenbergs, virtually everything he knew about atomic weapons.)
1661. Production reactor to make plutonium. From its beginning with Enrico Fermi's graphite-pile reactor under the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago to the fiery explosion of the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the Manhattan Project took a little less than 3 years to create a working atomic bomb. During that time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers managed the construction of monumental plants to enrich uranium, three production reactors to make plutonium, and two reprocessing plants to extract plutonium from the reactor fuel.
1662. Reactor fuel storage.
1663. Niels Bohr. In 1939, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr had argued that building an atomic bomb "can never be done unless you turn the United States into one huge factory." Years later, he told his colleague Edward Teller, "I told you it couldn't be done without turning the whole country into a factory. You have done just that."
1664. Enrio Fermi.
1665. Picture of CP-1. In 1942 Enrico Fermi, a physicist, successfully controlled a nuclear reaction in his reactor called CP-1 (Chicago Pile 1). CP-1 was located at the University of Chicago under a squash court.
1666. Einstein with Robert Oppenheimer.
1667. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, Director of Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico.
1668. Roosevelt giving Pearl Harbor Speech.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.
1669. Hilter giving speech.

      British Propaganda Posters

1670. My Goodness. My Guinness.
1671. Join an Air Crew
1672. The Real Irish Sprit.
1673. Bataan Death March Poster
1674. Buy War Bonds
1675. Battle of Britain Poster

      German Propaganda Posters

1676. Join the German Navy
1677. A Wehrmacht poster
1678. A poster for the infantry
1679. A Nordic troop poster
1680. A Waffen SS poster

      European Theater
      Infantry Photographs

1681. German infantry moving through a burning town.
1682. Dejected French infantryman after battle.
1683. German solider clearing a pillbox
1684. Victorious Germans at Westerplatte
1685. Free Polish soldiers in North Africa
1686. Aussie Troops capturing a German tank crew in North Africa
1687. The Scots Guards in Egypt
1688. Panzergrenadiers advancing on the Eastern Front.
1689. Russian anti-tank gun in Stalingrad
1690. Free Polish soldiers fighting in Tobruk
1691. Australian soldiers moving through rubble in Sicily.
1692. A German infantryman on the Eastern Front.
1693. Camoflouged Australian artillery in Italy.
1694. Polish infantrymen fighting near Monte Cassino
1695. Hugh column of German prisoners in Italy
1696. German soldiers fighting in Greece.
1697. Soviet infantryman hurling a grenade.
1698. German soldiers move through a destroyed Russian factory.
1699. GIs under mortar attack in a small town.
1700. Long line of American soliders in Italy.
1701. A German flak battery flies into the night sky.
1702. German rail artillery piece
1703. German troops advancing through a burning Soviet village.
1704. American airborne infantrymen exiting their glider.
1705. American infantrymen unloading onto Omaha beach.
1706. Going "over the top" on D-day.
1707. British and Canadian troops landing on D-Day.
1708. Replacements press inland on D+1.
1709. Canadian mortar team in action.
1710. Russian machine-gun team advancing.
1711. Soviet infantry and armor moving together.
1712. Massive air drop in south of France.
1713. Parading through Paris.
1714. Russian solider advancing through snow.
1715. American artillery piece being fired at night.
1716. A Russian anti-craft gun crew at work.
1717. A German patrol moves forward
1718. Market Garden drop.
1719. German soldier throwing a potato masher grenade.
1720. Jubilant citizens greet Allied airborne forces during Market-Garden
1721. Soviet infantry and tanks moving in the snow.
1722. Soviet machine gun crew covering troop movements.
1723. Market-Garden dropzone littered with debris.
1724. Group of American paratroopers displaying a souvenir.
1725. Two Soviet troops charging.
1726. American soldiers in deep snow.
1727. US 60th Infantry in Holland.
1728. GIs in Belgium
1729. German troops in Holland
1730. German machine gun squad in combat
1731. American medic with a heavy pack.
1732. British paratroopers in Holland.
1733. A Russian combined arms attack.
1734. The bridge at Remagen.
1735. GI scouting the Remagen bridge.
1736. German infantrymen surrounding to a GI and a tank
1737. American mortar team firing
1738. Soviet soldiers clearing a mine.
1739. GIs crossing the Rhine
1740. Russian troops storming a building in Sevastapol
1741. Column of German POWs.
1742. American soldiers passing through the Siegfried Line.
1743. A GI keeps a wary eye on German prisoners.
1744. Hammer and Sickle being raised above the Reichstag.
1745. Soviet troops celebrating on top of the Reichstag.

      Armor Photographs

1746. A column of British tanks in North Africa
1747. A British tank with infantry.
1748. A line of camouflaged Canadian armor
1749. Russian tank moving through a desolate battlefield.
1750. Tanks in the Falaise Pocket.
1751. French light tanks exiting forest
1752. German mechanized infantry.
1753. German tanks at the Battle of Kursk
1754. German Panther tank.
1755. German Panther tank rounds the bend.
1756. German armor in the midst of battle.
1757. German tanks and infantry advance in winter.
1758. American armored vehicle in Paris.
1759. American tanks crossing the Remagen Bridge.
1760. German soliders surrending to a Russian tank.
1761. Soviet infantry riding on tanks.
1762. A German halftrack
1763. A German armored vehicle in Poland.
1764. A German tank destroyer.
1765. A German tank destroyer in Russian mud.
1766. A Soviet T-34.

      Naval Photographs

1767. Allied amphibious vehicles at Anzio.
1768. Wrecked Allied ships at Dieppe.
1769. The Chanel packed with ships after D-Day.

      Air Force

1770. A B-26 dropping a string of bombs.
1771. A German bomber going down over Russia.
1772. Two gliders being lifted into the air.
1773. A Ju-88 on the runway.
1774. An ME-109.
1775. Planes from a Polish RAF squadron.
1776. RAF pilots scrambling from their planes.
1777. An RAF pilot with an impressive tally.
1778. A German searchlight in action.
1779. German stukas in formation.
1780. British volunteer observers.
1781. A buzzbomb about to strike London.

      Photos from World War II Ireland

1782. Life boat drill aboard a transport enroute to Ireland. January 1942.
1783. An Army transport enroute to Ireland. January 19-20, 1942
1784. Men in Ireland constructing a steel hut. March 25, 1942
1785. Troops Marching...These pictures show our soldiers enroute and arriving in Ireland, Feb 1942. Our troops are shown marching to their various quarters. Notice the huts that have been built for the accomodations of our boys.
1786. Photo shows U.S. troops stationed in Ireland, moving "on the double", across the stream for simulated attack, in Northern Ireland.
1787. Men on a firing range in Ireland March 25, 1942.
1788. American soldiers and Irish girls have a friendly chat during the Saint Patricks Day Dance and Celebration. Ireland, March 17, 1942

      Lest We Forget
      Leaders during WWII

1789. German Nazi Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler
1790. Hitler inspecting damage from Allied bombing of Germany
1791. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal
1792. Air Commodore D C T Bennett
1793. Air Marshal Arthur "Bomber" Harris, the charismatic leader of Bomber Command.
1794. Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, photographed when an Air Vice Marshal.
1795. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
1796. Soviet Dictator, Stalin

      Propaganda

1797. German propaganda poster
1798. Soviet propaganda poster. Parisans. Avenge without mercy.
1799. Soviet propaganda poster. Defend Moscow! for Yourselves and for the Whole Soviet People.
1800. Political cartoon. "Wonder how long the honeymoon will last?"
1801. Niejeman, Holland after bombing raid.
1802. Priests inspect their ruined church in Coutances.
1803. German POWs in Aachen.

      Concentration Camp

1804. The entrance gate to Auschwitz. 'ARBEIT MACHT FRET: Work Makes Free'
1805. Map of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
1806. Walls of the camp buildings.
1807. Auschwitz crematory.
1808. Inside a crammed bunkroom.
1809. Post-liberation procession of the dead from Auschwitz.
1810. A view of inside Auschwitz with fence and guard tower.
1811. Piles of shoes and other clothing confiscated from prisoners.
1812. Mound of Jewish clothing.
1813. More clothes pouring out of storage building.
1814. Jubilant prisoners celebrating their liberation.
1815. Children behind an Auschwitz fence.
1816. Malnutritioned, exhausted prisoners after libration.

      Non-combat Photos

1817. Hitler making a fiery speech.
1818. German troops parading through Warsaw
1819. Warsaw Ghetto
1820. Hitler climbing stairs at a Nazi rally
1821. General Sikorksi reviewing troops
1822. German troops parading
1823. Rommel, The Desert Fox
1824. Monty in North Africa (Montgomery?)
1825. Unloading material near Anzio
1826. View of Monte Cassino
1827. Mussolini after being freed by Skorzeny
1828. Marshall Tito
1829. Atlantic Wall under construction
1830. Hugh pile of scrap metal
1831. New York Times headline from June 7, 1944
1832. Map of D-Day airborne landings
1833. Map of overview of D-Day landings
1834. Reinforcements stream ashore on D+6.
1835. A Frenchman pays tribute to a dead GI.
1836. A GI in a heavily damaged church.
1837. New York Times announcing Roosevelt's death.
1838. Roosevelt's funeral procession.
1839. East meets West. US and Soviet forces meet.
1840. New York Times VE-Day paper.
1841. A vast military cemetery.

      Pacific Theater
      Infantry

1842. Japanese troops on Bataan.
1843. American artillery on Corregidor
1844. An airdrop on New Guinea.
1845. Dead marines at Buna.
1846. Marines returning fire on Tarawa
1847. A dirty and exhausted marine brushing his teeth.
1848. Marines on Tarawa.
1849. Americans landing on the Gilbert Islands
1850. A marine hurls a grenade on Tarawa.
1851. Marine artillery on Iwo Jima
1852. Marines landing on Iwo Jima
1853. Marines taking cover on Iwo Jima.
1854. Paratroopers landing on Noemfoor.
1855. Two marines in a firefight.
1856. GIs on Saipan.
1857. A marine welding a flamethrower.
1858. GIs landing on Wake Island.
1859. Wounded man on Bougainville being treated.

      World War II Timeline

1860. US General George Pershing. WWI ends with German Defeat. November 11, 1918. Pershing had misgivings about allowing German Army to stay in tact and not forced to admit defeat by surrendering.
1861. The Interior of the Palace des Glaces during the signing of the Peace Terms. Versailles, France. June 1919.
1862. The arrival in Munich of troops supporting Hitler. November 1923.

1863. On the night of January 30, 1933, the Nazis organized a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Above -- Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring greet the participants in the parade as they pass beneath the window of Hitler's new office.
1864. A view of the parade passing German President Paul von Hindenburg who gazes out the window at the sight.
1865. The Reichstag building, seat of the German government, burns after being set on fire by Nazis. March 12, 1933. This enabled Adolf Hitler to seize power under the pretext of protecting the nation from threats to its security.
1866. First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin, March 12, 1933.
1867. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech to a crowd in the Berlin Lustgarten urging Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses.
1868. On April 1, 1933, a week after Hitler became dictator of Germany, he ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores.
1869. May 10, 1933 - An event unseen since the Middle Ages occurs as German students from universities formerly regarded as among the finest in the world, gather in Berlin and other German cities to burn books with "unGerman" ideas.
1870. Nazis open Dachau concentration camp, June 1933. Prisoners in Dachau forced to stand without moving for endless hours as a punishment.
1871. SA Leader Ernst Rohm.
1872. Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany, August 19 1934. Hitler watches festivities at Nuremberg - 1934.
1873. Nuremberg Race Laws Chart of 1935.
1874. Adolf Hitler, Führer of Germany, accepts salutes and cheers from the Nazi controlled Reichstag after announcing the Anschluss (union) with Austria. March 1938.
1875. Austrian Nazis and local residents watch as Jews are forced to get on their hands and knees and scrub the pavement..
1876. A Sudeten woman dutifully salutes parading Nazis, October, 1938.
1877. A synagogue burns in Ober Ramstadt during Kristallnacht. November, 1938.
1878. Onlookers watch as the local fire department prevents the fire from spreading to nearby houses, but makes no attempt to stop the synagogue from burning.
1879. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact while German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Stalin look on under a portrait of Lenin, August 23, 1939.
1880. German troops stage a victory parade through the streets of Warsaw, Poland. September 1939.
1881. SS Leader Reinhard Heydrich becomes leader of new Reich Main Security Office, September 1939.
1882. October 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany. The smoking chimney of the Hadamar Killing Center.
1883. British soldiers captured by the Germans at Dunkirk, France, in June 1940.
1884. A French man weeps as the Nazis march into Paris, June 14, 1940 - beginning a four year occupation of the 'City of Lights.'
1885. Adolf Hitler and Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini together in Munich, June 18, 1940.
1886. Adolf Hitler visits Paris with architect Albert Speer (left) June 23, 1940.
1887. Tower of London through barbed wire.
1888. Saint Paul's Cathedral stands gloriously in the distance amid the wreckage caused by the German fire bombing of London. Sunday, December 29, 1940.
1889. Portrait of the 'Desert Fox,' Erwin Rommel. Below -- Rommel in action with the 15th Panzer Division near Tobruk, 1941.
1890. German soldiers battle the Soviets after the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
1891. German soldiers battle the Soviets after the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
1892. German soldiers, along with members of the Waffen SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a man with Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling before a mass grave.
1893. Detail of previous photo shows a young member of the Reich Labor Service watching.
1894. A Soviet civilian about to be executed at Preili, Latvia.
1895. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard a warship off the coast of Newfoundland during the Atlantic Conference. The conference took place from August 9-12, 1941, and resulted in the Atlantic Charter, a joint proclamation by the United States and Britain declaring that they were fighting the Axis powers to "ensure life, liberty, independence and religious freedom and to preserve the rights of man and justice."
1896. September 1, 1941 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars. A Jewish man wearing the yellow star walks along a street in Germany.
1897. Two little boys of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.
1898. Aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, crew members cheer departing pilots.
1899. Dec 7, 1941. A photo taken from a Japanese plane during the attack shows vulnerable American battleships, and in the distance, smoke rising from Hickam Airfield where 35 men having breakfast in the mess hall were killed after a direct bomb hit.
1900. The USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese air raid. Dec 7, 1941.
1901. The battleship USS Arizona after a bomb penetrated into the forward magazine causing massive explosions and killing 1,104 men.
1902. Dousing the flames on the battleship USS West Virginia, which survived and was rebuilt. Dec 7, 1941.\
1903. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941.
1904. On January 30, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS organization, convened a conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. At the meeting, 15 top Nazi bureaucrats and members of the SS met to coordinate the "Final Solution" in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the 11 million Jews of Europe and the Soviet Union.
1905. In April, 1942, Japanese Americans sent to relocation centers. Young Americans of Japanese descent who have just arrived at an assembly center, wait to have their bags inspected.
1906. The assembly center at Santa Anita, California, where Japanese-Americans stayed before being moved inland to the relocation center.
1907. A relocation center seen during a dust storm.
1908. The bodies of the men and boys over age 16 of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, murdered by the Nazis on June 10, 1942, in reprisal for the assassination of SS Leader Reinhard Heydrich.
1909. SS officers sift through the rubble of Lidice.
1910. Members of the Schutzpolizei (German protective police) pose in front of the Horak family farm, which they just destroyed.
1911. August 1942, First all-american air attack in Europe. U.S. Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, Louisiana, fires his machine gun at German fighter planes during a bombing run in 1942.
1912. British Gen. Bernard Montgomery watches his tanks move up in North Africa. November, 1942.
1913. Casablance Conference Jan 14 - 24, 1943. Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca. At the conclusion of the conference on January 24, French Gen. Henri Giraud, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill.
1914. Jan 23, 1943 Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli. British tanks and crews line up on Tripoli's waterfront after capturing the city.
1915. March 16 - 20, 1943 Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant shipts sunk by German U-boats. An Allied tanker that was torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean by a German submarine crumbles amidship under the heat of fire, then sinks.
1916. April, 1943. Jews arrested during the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in Poland by the SS, sent to be gassed at Treblinka extermination camp.
1917. Rabbis arrested, May 1943.
1918. During the invasion of Sicily, an American cargo ship is hit by a bomb from a German plane and its cargo of munitions explodes, off Gela, Sicily. July 1943.
1919. Page from original transcript from the speech given by Heinrich Himmler to about 100 SS Group Leaders in Posen, occupied Poland. October 4, 1943.
1920. A page from Himmler's handwritten notes for the speech showing the term "Judenevakuierung" meaning evacuation of the Jews.
1921. In Teheran, Iran, the first meeting of the 'Big Three.' From Left - Soviet leader Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. November 28, 1943.
1922. A 240 mm Howitzer of Battery B from the U.S. 697th Field Artillery Battalion prepares to fire into German held territory near Cassino, Italy. January 1944.
1923. German prisoners at the Anzio beachhead below Rome, soon to be sent to prison camps. February 1944.
1924. Adolf Hitler, accompanied by other German officials, grimly inspects bomb damage in a German city in 1944.
1925. General Eisenhower gives the order of the day "Full victory - Nothing else" to paratroopers in England just before they board airplines in the first D-Day assault.
1926. American soldiers wading through water into Nazi machine-gun fire on the coast of France.
1927. American troops invading Normandy. June 6, 1944.
1928. At Utah Beach, members of an American landing party help others whose landing craft was sunk by the Germans off the coast of France. The survivors reached Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, by using a life raft.
1929. Crossed rifles in the sand placed as a tribute to this fallen soldier.
1930. Medics help an injured American solider.
1931. American assault troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment, injured while storming Omaha Beach, wait by the Chalk Cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for further medical treament. Collville-sur-Mer, Normandy.
1932. A German V-1 bomb in flight about to crash and explode in London. June, 1944.
1933. A dead German soldier who was one of the "last stand" defenders of German-held Cherbourg.
1934. French refugees return to liberated Cherbourg. June 27, 1944
1935. Young German soldiers, waving white handkerchiefs, surrender to the Americans at St. Lô. July 18, 1944.
1936. Priests examine the ruins of their church after the fighting ended at Coutances, France, July 24, 1944.
1937. A group of U.S. infantrymen pose in front of a wrecked German tank while displaying a captured swastika. The infantrymen were left behind to mop-up in Chambois, France, last stronghold of the Nazis in the Falaise Gap area. August 20, 1944.
1938. German POWs are led through the streets of Paris.
1939. De Gaulle leads Paris in a Victory Parade. August 25, 1944.
1940. In a small town in France, a U.S. soldier captures a German officer. September 1944.
1941. German Gestapo agents captured after the Allies took Liege, Belgium. September 1944.
1942. U.S. troops cross the Siegfried line and enter into Germany. September 13, 1944.
1943. Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroops from the 1st Allied Airborne Army land in Holland during Operation Market-Garden. September 17, 1944.
1944. A view of the city of Nijmegen, Holland, and the Nijmegen Bridge over the Waal (Rhine) River in the background. The city was hit by German and Allied bombardment and shelling. September 28, 1944.
1945. The long, endless procession of German POWs after the fall of Aachen. October, 1944
1946. A heavily armed German soldier on the offensive.
1947. American soldiers taken prisoner by the Nazis.
1948. Two Americans lie dead in the slush, stripped of all equipment.
1949. The bodies of 81 American soldiers from Battery B of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, killed by Waffen SS troops, Dec. 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge near the Belgian town of Malmedy.
1950. Refugees evacuate the Belgian town of Bastogne while American troops hold the town against the power thrusts by the Germans.
1951. The pathfinder unit of the 101st Airborne Division, dropped by parachute, sets up radar equipment near Bastogne to guide planes with medical supplies and ammunition to the division, besieged by the Germans. December 23, 1944.
1952. Infantrymen, attached to the 4th Armored Division, fire at German troops, in the American advance to relieve the pressure on surrounded airborne troops in Bastogne. December 27, 1944.
1953. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, along with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, attend the conference at Yalta. February 1945.
1954. U.S. 1st Army soldiers and equipment pour across the Remagen bridge into Germany. March 1945
1955. U.S. soldiers cross the Rhine River under heavy German fire. March 1945.
1956. Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower, along with Generals Bradley and Patton, inspect art treasures stolen by the Nazis and hidden in underground salt mines. April 1945.
1957. Reichsbank wealth, SS loot, and Berlin museum paintings that were removed from Berlin to a salt mine in Merkers, Germany. April 1945.
1958. U.S. Soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment, in pursuit of Germans, head toward the Apennines Mountains near Florence, Italy. April 9, 1945.
1959. A truckload of bodies from Buchenwald concentration camp. The Nazis were about to dispose of them by burning when the camp was captured by troops of the U.S. 3rd Army. April 1945
1960. Slave laborers at Buchenwald after liberation, showing the effects of Nazi cruelty. Included in this photo is Elie Wiesel, future Nobel Peace Prize recipient, pictured in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam (see closeup next photo). April 12 1945
1961. Elie Wiesel, among those liberated at Buchenwald. April 12, 1945.
1962. At Dachau concentration camp, two U.S. soldiers gaze at victims of Hitler's Final Solution who died on board a death train.
1963. Americans conduct on-the-spot executions of Nazi SS guards at Dachua.
1964. Survivors cheer their American liberators. April 29, 1945.
1965. Young survivors. April 29, 1945.
1966. General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German High Command, signs the document of unconditional German surrender at General Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945.
1967. German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signs a surrender document at Soviet headquarters in Berlin, May 9, 1945. The Soviets had insisted that a second ceremonial signing take place in Soviet-occupied Berlin.
1968. At Piccadilly Circus in London, a U.S. soldier gives a hug to a motherly looking English woman celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender. May 8, 1945.
1969. Moments after the atomic bomb was dropped by a U.S. B-29 Superfortress, a cloud forms over the Japanese city of Nagasaki rising over 60,000 feet. August 9, 1945.
1970. After the bomb, a Catholic Cathedral on the hill is all that remains.
1971. At the White House, President Harry Truman announces the Japanese Surrender. August 14, 1945.
1972. The Japanese envoy signs the document of surrender on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo bay. September 2, 1945.
1973. Times Square, New York - Celebrating the Japanese surrender with a kiss, August 1945.
1974. The former leaders of Hitler's Third Reich on trial in Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg trial was conducted by a joint United States-British-French-Soviet military tribunal, with each nation supplying two judges. The four counts in the indictment were: Count 1 - CONSPIRACY to commit crimes alleged in the next three counts. Count 2 - CRIMES AGAINST PEACE including planning, preparing, starting, or waging aggressive war. Count 3 - WAR CRIMES including violations of laws or customs of war. Count 4 - CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY including murder, extermination, enslavement, persecution on political or racial grounds, involuntary deportment, and inhumane acts against civilian populations.