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Douglas Aircraft Co. Plant, Long Beach, CA (1942)  

World War II: Pacific Theater of Operations

U.S. Dead, Buna, New Guinea 19426

U.S. Dead, Tarawa (November 1943)

F6F Hellcat Fighter Taking off from the USS Lexington (1943)  

Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: Something Missing?

LT Brink Bass Receiving a Hair Cut, 1942

LT Brink Bass in his Cockpit, 1943

U.S. Marines Storming Tarawa (November 1943)

Marines take cover behind a sea wall on Red Beach #3, Tarawa

Marine flamethrower on Tarawa, 1943

Adversary: an Unknown Japanese Soldier (1940s)

The End of a Japanese Cave, Hill 382, Iwo Jima (1945)

Operation Detachment: The Landing on Iwo Jima (February 1945)

U.S. Marines Land on Iwo Jima (February 1945)

Iwo Jima Beachhead, 1945

U  Exhausted U.S. Marines on Engebi (Eniwetok Atoll, February 1944)

Iwo Jima, U.S. Navy Reconnaissance Image (October 1944)o

Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi (February 23, 1945)

Surrender on the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay (1945)

“Some enchanted evening....”