Douglas Aircraft Co. Plant, Long Beach, CA (1942 · F6F Hellcat Fighter Taking off from the USS...

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

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Page 1: Douglas Aircraft Co. Plant, Long Beach, CA (1942 · F6F Hellcat Fighter Taking off from the USS Lexington (1943) Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: Something Missing? LT Brink Bass Receiving

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

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World War II: Pacific Theater of Operations

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U.S. Dead, Buna, New Guinea 19426

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U.S. Dead, Tarawa (November 1943)

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

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Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: Something Missing?

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LT Brink Bass Receiving a Hair Cut, 1942

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LT Brink Bass in his Cockpit, 1943

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U.S. Marines Storming Tarawa (November 1943)

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

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Marine flamethrower on Tarawa, 1943

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Adversary: an Unknown Japanese Soldier (1940s)

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

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

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

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Iwo Jima Beachhead, 1945

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

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

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

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Surrender on the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay (1945)

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“Some enchanted evening....”