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Date: ca.1944
Title: "Water Buffalo" [amphibious tanks] line up for invasion of Cape Sansapor at the western end of Dutch New Guinea. In silhouette, Coast Guardsman Robert Campbell stands guard.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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Date: March 1945
Title: Private First Class Angelo B. Reina, of Utica, New York, company A, 391st Infantry Regiment, guards a lonely Oahu beach position. Kahuka, Oahu Hawaii.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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Date: October 20, 1944
Title: An american medium tank hit a Japanese land mine in surging forward to the Tacloban Air Strip during the early stages of the Philippines invasion on October 20. Here, one of the wounded from the wrecked tank is being bandaged by a medical corpsman.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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Date: 1944
Title: Negro sailors of the USS MASON commissioned at Boston Navy Yard 20 March 1944 proudly look over their ship which is first to have predominantly Negro crew.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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Date: June 6, 1944
Title: 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.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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Date: February 1944
Title: 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.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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Date: February 23, 1945
Title: Flag rising on Iwo Jima
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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Date: ca.1942-1944
Title: Sergeant Norwood Dorman, Benson, North Carolina, stops to rest at the memorial to the Italian soldier of World War I, Brolo, Sicily.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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