Miscellaneous WW2 Photos | World War II Database

3,222 items in this album on 162 pages.


Firefighters of Belleau Wood fighting flames caused by a special attack aircraft, in the Philippine Islands, 30 Oct 1944; note TBM Avenger aircraft on flight deck and Franklin burning in distance. Photo 2 of 2	Major fires on the fantail of USS Belleau Wood were finally extinguished about three hours after being struck by a special attack aircraft, off the Philippine Islands, 30 Oct 1944	USS Belleau Wood after fires were put out and damaged aircraft were jettisoned after being struck by a special attack aircraft earlier in the day, off the Philippine Islands, 30 Oct 1944. Note hole in flight deck	African-American United States Marine Corps swimming instructor Private Paul Tolliver teaching recruits the breaststroke, Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, United States, Nov 1944

Carrier pigeon trainer WAVES Specialist 3rd Class Sidney Cazort, Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, California, United States, circa 1944-1945	Frances Wills and Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York City, New York, United States, Nov 1944	Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York, New York, United States, Nov 1944	Japanese-American of Company F, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team standing on guard, France, Nov 1944

WAVES Seaman 2nd Class Mary Swamberger and Seaman 2nd Class Dorothy Gasperi rolling a snowball at the Yeoman Training School, Iowa State College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States, 1944	Young Germans volunteering for military service, Germany, Nov 1944	A Japanese special attack A6M aircraft crashing close aboard the starboard side of the carrier Ticonderoga off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. Photo 2 of 3.	A Mitsubishi A6M Zero special attack aircraft diving on the carrier Lexington (Essex-class) off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. This plane struck the carrier directly outboard of the secondary conn causing moderate damage

American troops surrounded by German troops receiving D-ration chocolate bars and halazone water-purification tablets inside 105mm shells fired from howitzers, Belmont sector, France, 5 Nov 1944	Shortly before taking off from Chôshi airstrip, Japan, Japanese Special Attack pilots Tetsuya Ueno, Koshiro Hayashi, Naoki Okagami, Takao Oi, and Toshio Yoshitake posing in front of a Ki-51 attack aircraft, 8 Nov 1944	Men of US 24th Marine Regiment celebrating the birthday of the US Marine Corps, Maui, US Territory of Hawaii, 10 Nov 1944	Japanese-American troops of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team at Armistice Day service, Fays, France, 11 Nov 1944

Japanese-American color guard of the US 442nd Regimental Combat Team standing at attention while citations are read following the fighting in Bruyeres, France, 12 Nov 1944	WAVES personnel boarding a R4D-6 transport aircraft while en route to Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kansas, United States, 13 Nov 1944	WAVES personnel traveling aboard a R4D-6 transport aircraft while en route to Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kansas, United States, 13 Nov 1944	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group personnel aboard a transport sailing from Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea to Leyte in Philippine Islands, mid-Nov 1944