WORLD WAR II: Photos and sketches of the armed services at war

Nov. 3, 1942: Pushing through New Guinea jungles in a jeep, General Douglas MacArthur inspects the positions and movements of United Nations Forces, who would push the Japanese away from Port Moresby and back over the Owen Stanley Mountain range. (AP Photo)
Photo shows American soldiers wading across body of water that gets deeper the further into it they get, on an island in the New Georgia Group of the Solomon Islands.
Two gunners get their light machine gun into place behind a fallen tree and wait to open up at the first sign of Japs in front of them. photo by Sgt. John Bushemi.
Normandy landing on D Day 1944
The stench of dead Japanese was nauseating - Inf. on the road to Kokumbona - Guadalcanal - sketched between air alarms
Bombs away. Inside a B-17. Sketch by Sgt. Howard Brodie
Drawing shows a gunner, from behind, standing in the turret of an airplane bomber during World War Two. Howard Brodie was the staff artist for Yank magazine during the Battle of Guadalcanal
Drawing shows a World War II gunner, smoking a cigarette and kneeling as he fires guns in a B-17 airplane during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Paratroopers landing at Kamiri Strip, Noemfoor Island. Boeing B-17 keeps watch above U.S. Army A.A.F. photo
Two North American B-25's churn the water with hits and near misses on a Japanese frigate in the March 29, 1945 attack which cost the Japs nine ships, South China Sea
Bombs over Burma. Aerial view of bombs being dropped from two 20th Bomber Command Superfortresses.
Aerial view of four U.S. Navy F4Us, Corsairs, in flight over South Pacific
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Aerial view of Osaka after bombing, showing bomb craters.
Nagasaki, Japan after atomic bombing U.S. Army A.A.F. photo.
Second atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan
Aerial view of Hiroshima after the bomb.
Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Howard R. Hollem, photographer Created / Published 1942 August
Feeding an SNC advanced training plane Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Standing on the wing is Floyd Helphrey who came from Iowa to join the Navy early in the year.
Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base, supervises Chas. Potter, an NYA trainee from Michigan, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Sketch shows American soldiers in a jeep, seen from the rear, as they travel down the road to Kokumbona on Guadalcanal island, past abandoned Japanese field pieces during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal.

Contributor: Brodie, Howard
Date: 1942

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Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Howard R. Hollem, photographer Created / Published 1942 August

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