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LSM's (r) sending rockets at shores of Pokishi Shima, near Okinawa, five days before invasion

LSM's (r) sending rockets at shores of Pokishi Shima, near Okinawa, fi...

Rockets being fired from ships. Photograph by U.S. Navy. No. USN 324262. Joseph J. Spagnola Collection.

The Second Battalion, Twenty-Seventh Marines land on Iwo Jima / B. Campbell.  Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps).

The Second Battalion, Twenty-Seventh Marines land on Iwo Jima / B. Cam...

Marines on top of hill during battle. No. 111688. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View from USS Santa Fe of the Aircraft Carrier USS Franklin showing extend of fires after a direct hit by a Japanese dive-bomber

View from USS Santa Fe of the Aircraft Carrier USS Franklin showing ex...

Photo by U.S. Navy, #23790. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Two dead Japanese in a water filled shell hole somewhere in New Guinea, 1943

Two dead Japanese in a water filled shell hole somewhere in New Guinea...

Official U.S. Army photograph. No. SC 168206. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American troops moving on toward Fontainebleau en route to Paris, France, with smoke from blasted German armor filling the sky. Infantryman with bazooka in foreground following tank destroyer

American troops moving on toward Fontainebleau en route to Paris, Fran...

No. SC 193562. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Chron; Geogr.; WWII France; U.S. Army; Bazookas; Armor.

Navy corpsman gives drink to wounded marine on Guam official U.S. Navy photo

Navy corpsman gives drink to wounded marine on Guam official U.S. Navy...

No. USN 475151. Public domain photograph related to US navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Soldiers of the 6th Armored Division dodging sniper fire in the captured town of Oberdola, Germany. Dead American in foregrd

Soldiers of the 6th Armored Division dodging sniper fire in the captur...

No. SC 203216. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: WWII Germany; U.S. Army 6th Armored Div.; Geogr.; Chron.

Waves of Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the 15th AAF fly over the target area, the Concordia Vega oil refinery, Ploesti, Rumania ... after dropping their bomb loads on the oil cracking plant, on 31 May 1944

Waves of Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the 15th AAF fly over the tar...

Aerial view. Photoprint by the U.S. Air Force. Photograph possibly taken by Richard R. Ganczak (1924-2014). No. 51982 A.C. Joseph J. Spagnola Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. ... More

Crouched tensely, 7th Inf. Div. soldiers fire a 37mm antitank gun at a Jap pillbox. 31 Jan 1944. Kwajalein Atoll

Crouched tensely, 7th Inf. Div. soldiers fire a 37mm antitank gun at a...

Photo by Cordray, USASC This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

The Marines land--Marines hit three feet of water as they leave their LST to take the beach at Cape Gloucester Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps)

The Marines land--Marines hit three feet of water as they leave their ...

No. 68998. Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz signing surrender document on board the USS MISSOURI (BB-63), at left are General Douglas MacArthur, Adm. Willima F. Halsey, and R. Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief of Staff for Adm. Nimitz

Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz signing surrender document on board the U...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Peace Treaties 1945; WWII Peace; BI; Shelf.

Dead Japanese soldiers strewn over a beach on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, while U.S. Marines get the lay of the land and consolidate their positions

Dead Japanese soldiers strewn over a beach on Guadalcanal, Solomon Isl...

Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps). No. 50962. Field no. 158. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

From the deck of a Coast Guard manned-transport that has just unloaded U.S. Army contingents, a combat photographer shot this picture of the bomb pocked waters off Sicily during the invasions

From the deck of a Coast Guard manned-transport that has just unloaded...

Official U.S. Coast Guard photo no. 1790. From Public Information Division, United States Coast Guard.

First Jap torpedo bomber, "Jill," flying through hail of AA fire toward the USS Yorktown (CV-20) to attack, during the raid on Truk, Caroline Is. Official U.S. Navy photo

First Jap torpedo bomber, "Jill," flying through hail of AA fire towar...

Title transcribed from item. No. USN 231203. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A wave of charging Fourth Division Marines begin an attack from the beach at Iwo Jima, on D-Day as another boatload of battle-tested veterans is disgorged on the beach by an invasion craft

A wave of charging Fourth Division Marines begin an attack from the be...

Photograph by U.S. Marine Corps. No. 110109. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of the Inf. Co. of 7th Div., U.S. Army halts in its advance on Kwajalein Island while a tank blasts a path into Japanese positions official U.S. Army photograph

Part of the Inf. Co. of 7th Div., U.S. Army halts in its advance on Kw...

No. SC 186643. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lt. General George S. Patton, Lt. General Omar N. Bradley, and General Sir Bernard Montgomery, meet to discuss the progress of the French campaign, somewhere in France

Lt. General George S. Patton, Lt. General Omar N. Bradley, and General...

Patton's white pearl-handled revolver is shown prominently in foreground. Photo by USASC, #192464. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: ... More

Troops dug in on top of Hill 604, Villa Verde Trail, fire on Japanese positions over the next ridge. Co. L, 3rd Bn, 128th Inf. Regt., 32nd Div., Manila, P.I. official U.S. Army photograph

Troops dug in on top of Hill 604, Villa Verde Trail, fire on Japanese ...

No. SC 205884. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marines wait at entrance to cave in which Japanese soldiers are hiding Marine Corps. photo

Marines wait at entrance to cave in which Japanese soldiers are hiding...

Caption on verso: Trapped--rifle sights lined on the entrance to an Okinawan cave, Marines await the results of an explosive charge to pick off any Japs who attempt to escape. These bitterly contested cave posi... More

Infantrymen of the 2nd Bn, VI Corps, 255th Inf. Regt., move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by a 63rd Div., US Seventh Army

Infantrymen of the 2nd Bn, VI Corps, 255th Inf. Regt., move down a str...

Ruins in Waldenburg, Poland. Official U.S. Army photograph. No. SC 205778.

Marines on beach, preparatory to embarkation for New Britain, taken by the USS Nashville

Marines on beach, preparatory to embarkation for New Britain, taken by...

Official U.S. Navy photograph. Public domain image of a U.S. navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marines crossing a Cape Gloucester stream looking for Japanese snipers Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps)

Marines crossing a Cape Gloucester stream looking for Japanese snipers...

No. 72282. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grenade hurls toward Japanese

Grenade hurls toward Japanese

A hand grenade tossed by a Marine (second from left), sails through the air over Saipan toward Japanese. Another Marine (second from right) gets ready to heave his in the same direction. No. 83366.

The crew of 105 mm Howitzer, Battery B., 33rd Field Artillery with gun set in Arabic mud-block abode for firing in defense of the Kassserine Pass, North Africa

The crew of 105 mm Howitzer, Battery B., 33rd Field Artillery with gun...

No. SC 170829. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Chron; WWII N. Africa; U.S. Army 33d Field Arty; Tunisia Kasserine Pass; Artillery.

US tank destroyer M36 fires its 90mm gun point-blank at a Nazi pillbox emplacement to clear a path through a side street in Brest, France

US tank destroyer M36 fires its 90mm gun point-blank at a Nazi pillbox...

Official U.S. Army photograph. No. SC 194384. Joseph J. Spagnola collection.

Marines move onward against the Japanese on Saipan Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps)

Marines move onward against the Japanese on Saipan Defense Dept. photo...

No. 84019. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

French Coast dead ahead--helmeted Yankee soldiers crouch, tightly packed, behind bulwarks of a Coast Guard landing barge in the historic sweep across the English Channel to the shores of Normandy

French Coast dead ahead--helmeted Yankee soldiers crouch, tightly pack...

Photograph by U.S. Coast Guard. No. 2340. Joseph J. Spagnola Collection.

Soldiers of the 55th Armored Inf Bn, 22nd Tank Bn, 11th Armored Div, US Third Army, run through smoke filled street in Wernberg, Germany

Soldiers of the 55th Armored Inf Bn, 22nd Tank Bn, 11th Armored Div, U...

SC 205298. Joseph J. Spagnola collection. Official U.S. Army photograph. Public domain photograph of World War Two period military equipment, vehicle, 1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picr... More

Operations during snowstorm, Kodiak, Alaska official U.S. Navy photo

Operations during snowstorm, Kodiak, Alaska official U.S. Navy photo

Airplane on ground in snowstorm. No. USN 23415. Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Panorama of the southeast edge of Motoyama Airfield #1 covering beach area from Mt. Suribachi to east boat basin by Sgt. P. Scheer

Panorama of the southeast edge of Motoyama Airfield #1 covering beach ...

Beach covered with soldiers in foxholes, ships in water in background. Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps). No. 111438.

U.S. Marines moving and passing through mud on their way to the front lines on Bougainville Ohman

U.S. Marines moving and passing through mud on their way to the front ...

Seven marines walking through mud on Bougainville Island. No. 68247.

Stretchers on a roadway in the Nidual River valley leading to the 3rd Marine Division Navy field hospital, which was the scene of a dawn attack by Japanese forces Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps)

Stretchers on a roadway in the Nidual River valley leading to the 3rd ...

Caption on verso. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tanks and infantry assault Jap positions in a Peleliu ridge

Tanks and infantry assault Jap positions in a Peleliu ridge

Bird's-eye view of U.S. Marines and tanks. Photograph by U.S. Marine Corps. No. 97433. Joseph J. Spagnola Collection. Title transcribed from item.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a group of soldiers, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington... More

Firing rockets on Balikpapan beach, Borneo, making two runs. 20,000 rockets were fired by units of the 7th Fleet preceding landing by Australian forces F-Day

Firing rockets on Balikpapan beach, Borneo, making two runs. 20,000 ro...

View from U.S. battleship showing bombs in air. Official U.S. Navy photo. No. USN 259728.

Fifty-six German prisoners of war come out with their hands in the air to give themselves up to TSgt. Olin Dows, (Rhinelander, N.Y.) who used his fluent German to talk them into surrendering photo by Salvas

Fifty-six German prisoners of war come out with their hands in the air...

SC 193155-S. Joseph J. Spagnola collection. Orig. neg. rec'd from OCSigO Hqs, SOS,ETO,USA.

Surrendering Japanese soldier emerges from cave on island of Saipan Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps)

Surrendering Japanese soldier emerges from cave on island of Saipan De...

Caption on verso. No. 87137. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flashes from the Italian Front. (No. 3) Engineers of the 10th Mountain Division rest in the rear of a tank destroyer which offers them some protection from sniper fire up the road, during the assault by the 10th Mountain Division of th Castel D. Aiano area

Flashes from the Italian Front. (No. 3) Engineers of the 10th Mountain...

No. SC 202040-S. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Army 10th Mt. Div.; WWII Italy; Armor; Geogr.; Chron.

Japanese plane shot down as it attempted attack, USS Kitkun Bay

Japanese plane shot down as it attempted attack, USS Kitkun Bay

USN 238363. Joseph J. Spagnola collection. Official U.S. Navy photograph. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl... More

Japanese POW at Guam, with bowed heads after hearing Emperor Hirohito make announcement of Japan's unconditional surrender official U.S. Navy photo

Japanese POW at Guam, with bowed heads after hearing Emperor Hirohito ...

No. USN 490320. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, ... More

Aerial view of a German prisoner of war camp west of Mateur

Aerial view of a German prisoner of war camp west of Mateur

No. SC 169516. Joseph J. Spagnola collection. U.S. Army photograph. Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description