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U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Golf Course Equipment & Repair Shop, Reeves & Moffett Roads, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Golf Course Equipment & Re...

Significance: Building 477 was built from Quonset huts which were erected on Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the late years of WWII. Thousands of Quonset huts were erected as temporary buildings worldwide duri... More

Marine Guard, War College at Coasters Harbor, Newport

Marine Guard, War College at Coasters Harbor, Newport

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Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News,...

Significance: Originally built for American President Lines for commercial purposes, the Military Sea Transportation Services instead converted the Empire State V to a troopship. One of three in its class, it ... More

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air  Ship Hangar, Meffett Avenue & Maxfield Street, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air Ship Hanga...

Survey number: HABS CA-2707-A Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air  Ship Hangar, Meffett Avenue & Maxfield Street, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air Ship Hanga...

Survey number: HABS CA-2707-A Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air  Ship Hangar, Meffett Avenue & Maxfield Street, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air Ship Hanga...

Survey number: HABS CA-2707-A Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Stables, Mokapu & Summer Roads, Kailua, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Stables, Mokapu & Summer R...

Significance: Building No. 713 Stables were first used by the military police to patrol the base for security purposes due to the increase of construction projects and the limited number of roads. Construction... More

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, C.P.O. Club & Married Enlisted Men's Quarters, O'Neal Street between Moffat & Lawrence Roads, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, C.P.O. Club & Married Enli...

Significance: Buildings 401-405 were built in 1941 as part of the early development of the Naval Air Station at Kaneohe Bay, and all existed at the time of the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941. All five buil... More

First in the fight. Always faithful. Be a U.S. Marine! / James Montgomery Flagg.

First in the fight. Always faithful. Be a U.S. Marine! / James Montgom...

A U.S. Marine, in combat uniform, standing, full-length, facing front, holding handgun, against background of U.S. flag. Promotional goal: U.S. J26. 191-.

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Recruits on their way to the camp

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

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U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Gunnery School, Bingham Way between Minteer Street & Lawrence Road, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Gunnery School, Bingham Wa...

Significance: Building 455 & 1391 were originally one structure. Building 455 was constructed as a gunnery school in 1943. The fleet gunnery school which occupied Building 445 was organized as a result of the J... More

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Ar...

Significance: The immediate importance of the second flag-raising that occurred on 23 February 1945 on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies in how it resonated with the U.S. Marines as they continued their thir... More

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Ar...

Significance: The immediate importance of the second flag-raising that occurred on 23 February 1945 on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies in how it resonated with the U.S. Marines as they continued their thir... More

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Ar...

Significance: The immediate importance of the second flag-raising that occurred on 23 February 1945 on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies in how it resonated with the U.S. Marines as they continued their thir... More

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Southern Lighter Than Air  Ship Hangar, Near intersection of Windmill Road & Johnson Street, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Southern Lighter Than Air Ship Hanga...

Survey number: HABS CA-2707-B Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Colonel John Harris? U.S. Marine Corps. Commandant Marine Corps. Hdq. Washington Barracks. Wash. D.C.

Colonel John Harris? U.S. Marine Corps. Commandant Marine Corps. Hdq. ...

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U.S.S. Columbia, marines - Public domain portrait photograph

U.S.S. Columbia, marines - Public domain portrait photograph

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U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard, company drill by sections

U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard, company drill by sections

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U.S.S. Massachusetts, marines at mess

U.S.S. Massachusetts, marines at mess

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Marine encampment at Camp M'Calla [i.e. McCalla], Guantanamo, June 1898

Marine encampment at Camp M'Calla [i.e. McCalla], Guantanamo, June 189...

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U.S.S. Maine, Marines embarking at Hampton Roads

U.S.S. Maine, Marines embarking at Hampton Roads

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Sailors and Marines from the fleet, Dewey Land Parade

Sailors and Marines from the fleet, Dewey Land Parade

Title from jacket. "1624" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 32400. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Marines learning to shoot in France

Marines learning to shoot in France

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Marines from Mich. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Marines from Mich. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, funerals, monument, memorial, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, funerals, monum...

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U.S.S. Kentucky, Marine guard - Public domain portrait photograph

U.S.S. Kentucky, Marine guard - Public domain portrait photograph

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Marine trucks - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Marine trucks - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Marines assigned to Arms Conf. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Marines assigned to Arms Conf. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Marine Band Drum [.] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Marine Band Drum [.] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Transfer of 8" shells, League Isl'd.

Transfer of 8" shells, League Isl'd.

Photo shows armored cruiser USS Brooklyn (CA-3) at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb. 1913, during the American Marines mobilization to go to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican Re... More

Loading MEADE - Public domain image of steamship

Loading MEADE - Public domain image of steamship

Photo shows U.S. Army transport ship Meade with American Marines mobilizing at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb. 1913, before going to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican Revoluti... More

Loading MEADE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Loading MEADE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows U.S. Army transport ship Meade and American Marines mobilizing at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb. 1913, before going to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican Revolutio... More

Funeral, Vera Cruz dead, Battery Park

Funeral, Vera Cruz dead, Battery Park

Photograph the beginning of the ceremonial procession in New York City, before the National Memorial Service on May 11, 1914 in honor of the seamen and marines who were killed in Veracruz, Mexico during the Mex... More

Do your duty - join the U.S. Marines Help them defend America on land and sea.

Do your duty - join the U.S. Marines Help them defend America on land ...

U.S. Marine Corps recruitment poster showing marines firing artillery from the deck of a ship.

Marine tractor, George Grantham Bain Collection

Marine tractor, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, WINTHROP, MD. VIEWS

MARINE CORPS RIFLE RANGE, WINTHROP, MD. VIEWS

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Uphold our honor--Fight for us Join Army-Navy-Marines.

Uphold our honor--Fight for us Join Army-Navy-Marines.

Poster showing figure of Liberty with the American flag. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK. DANIELS AND GEN. BARNETT

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MACHINE GUN UNIT DEMONSTRATION AT BALL PARK. DANI...

A group of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gene... More

FOURTH OF JULY. FRENCH MARINES - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

FOURTH OF JULY. FRENCH MARINES - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Ft. Crockett, Galveston, Tex., 1918, Camp site, Coast Artillery Corps and Marine Corps

Ft. Crockett, Galveston, Tex., 1918, Camp site, Coast Artillery Corps ...

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JUNIOR MARINES - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

JUNIOR MARINES - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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DANIELS, JOSEPHUS. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, 1913-1921. DECORATING MARINE HEROES

DANIELS, JOSEPHUS. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, 1913-1921. DECORATING MARINE...

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Marines passing White House, 7/12/22

Marines passing White House, 7/12/22

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Marine Guard, 10/11/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Marine Guard, 10/11/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Marines at White House, [10/5/23]

Marines at White House, [10/5/23]

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Marine-Army game, [12/1/23] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Marine-Army game, [12/1/23] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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Lieut. Col. T.C. Turner, Chief Marine flying Cap

Lieut. Col. T.C. Turner, Chief Marine flying Cap

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Mrs. Coolidge at Marines - Fort Benning game, [11/3/24]

Mrs. Coolidge at Marines - Fort Benning game, [11/3/24]

A group of men standing next to each other in front of a crowd. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lejeune receives watch from Marine Corps League, 4/15/29

Lejeune receives watch from Marine Corps League, 4/15/29

A group of men standing around each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hoover camp on the Rapidan; Marine Camp, 8/17/29
Sousa, Congressman Sol Bloom, Herbert Hoover, and the US Marine Band inaugurating the George Washington Bicentenial March

Sousa, Congressman Sol Bloom, Herbert Hoover, and the US Marine Band i...

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Big. General Seth Williams, QM of the USMC

Big. General Seth Williams, QM of the USMC

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Haifa, result of terrorist acts & government measures. H.M.S. British marines & police in control of Haifa streets during a case of incendiary

Haifa, result of terrorist acts & government measures. H.M.S. British ...

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New River Marine Base, motor detachment, North Carolina

New River Marine Base, motor detachment, North Carolina

Photo shows the Marine Corps Air Station New River, at Jacksonville, North Carolina. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Preparing for take-off at the glider pilot training program, Page Field, Parris Island, S.C

Preparing for take-off at the glider pilot training program, Page Fiel...

12002-32. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C., World War Two

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C., World War Two

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Marine glider pilot at Parris Island, S.C.

Marine glider pilot at Parris Island, S.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marine glider at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine glider at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

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Marine Corps lieutenant studying glider piloting at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine Corps lieutenant studying glider piloting at Page Field, Parris...

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Marine with the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C

Marine with the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C

12002-32. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C

Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C

12002-32. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C.

Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C.

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image ... More

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C

12002-32. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Houses under construction at the Navy defense housing project for enlisted men in the Marines and Navy. San Diego, California

Houses under construction at the Navy defense housing project for enli...

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Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. This balloon room worker is assembling fabric tubes which will comprise inflatable seats in finished boat. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps....

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Marine glider planes in flight

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Marine glider planes in flight

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machines manufactured since January 1, 1935 were commandeered; no portables were wanted. A telephonic dictation room is being set up whereby busy executives can pick up the telephone, dictate their mail to a centrally located room which insures prompt typing of their letters, and at the same time more correspondence can be handled with lesser number of typewriters

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Mon...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Marine glider planes in flight

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. Glad he's on our side, not theirs. This lieutenant of the Marine Corps, studying glider piloting at Page Field, Parris Island, South Carolina, may some day land in battle dress on the outskirts of Berlin or Tokyo or on the heel of Italy's boot

Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. Glad he's on our side, not theirs...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Glider instruction

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

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Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machines manufactured since January 1, 1935 were commandeered; no portables were wanted. A telephonic dictation room is being set up whereby busy executives can pick up the telephone, dictate their mail to a centrally located room which insures prompt typing of their letters, and at the same time more correspondence can be handled with lesser number of typewriters

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Mon...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Running up the barrage balloon

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

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New York, New York. The War Emergency Board of the fur industry formed a fur vest project. Various fur factories donate the services of their employees one day a week to make fur-lined vests for the merchant marines. The fur in all from voluntary donations from the public. Jewish fur worker cutting outsides of fur-lined vests from heavy cotton cloth

New York, New York. The War Emergency Board of the fur industry formed...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck throws his weight on a line, things come his way.  A member of a marine balloon barrage unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina helps to ground one of the big bags that the Corps has added to its kit of fighting tools

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck...

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New River, North Carolina. Marines in training. A little "shuteye" goes good after a hard workout in a training area. Toughened Marines make pillows and nightcaps of their steel helmets during a brief pause in the grueling war exercises at New River, North Carolina. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marines in training. A little "shuteye" goe...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Bedding down a big barrage balloon is just another job that the leathernecks take in stride as special marine units are trained at Parris Island, South Carolina. "Purging" it with fresh gas before it goes aloft again and running it up into a tactical formation under control of a steel cable are other features of a technique at which the marines have become very proficient

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Bedding down a big barra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New River, North Carolina. Marine amphibian tractor. "The Marines have landed, and have the situation well in hand." A special leatherneck unit, training with new amphibian tractors at New River, North Carolina, is ready for any shore opposition as its land-and-water troop carrier brings them ashore in full battle gear to establish a beachhead

New River, North Carolina. Marine amphibian tractor. "The Marines have...

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New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine Corps transport workers study the assembly of one of the many weapons the leathernecks use in war exercises at New River, North Carolina. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine Corps ...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. Spanish moss covered trees along the road to the U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp

Parris Island, South Carolina. Spanish moss covered trees along the ro...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. A scene near the U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp

Parris Island, South Carolina. A scene near the U.S. Marine Corps glid...

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Marines in combat. Fire in this fighter plane was quickly extinguished by Marines at the Guadalcanal airport after a Japanese bomb hit the hangar shown in the background. The plane was not seriously damaged

Marines in combat. Fire in this fighter plane was quickly extinguished...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Parris Island, South Carolina. Brigadier General Emile Moses talking over barrage balloon tactics with a Marine Corps lieutenant of the U.S. Marines Corps glider detachment training camp

Parris Island, South Carolina. Brigadier General Emile Moses talking o...

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A couple of people that are on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of people that are on a boat. Office of War Information Photo...

Photographed by Alfred Palmer or Pat Terry. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Marines in training at Parris Island, South Carolina add one more fighting trick to the many they already know. These fast, powerful tractors are used for positioning power winches from which tactical formations of barrage balloons are controlled

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Marines in training at P...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a plane on a runway. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a plane on a runway. Office of War Informat...

Photographed by Alfred Palmer or Pat Terry. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Washington, D.C. Employees of the U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska branch, adjusting the templates on the base map manuscript in the completion of an air navigation chart from aerial photographs. Left to right: William MacDonald, engineering aid, (now in the Marine Corps), Joel Langhofer, chief engineering aid, and Mrs. Marvel Barnekov, engineering aid

Washington, D.C. Employees of the U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska branc...

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Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

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Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Among the outstanding Negroes in the original group of Negro Marines is Private First Class Walker Manley, formerly organist of the Christian Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a demonstrator for the Hammond Organ Company, who is now post organist at Camp Lejeune. In addition to being organist  for the Montford Point chapel, he is also organist for several of the chapels where white enlistees worship

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

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Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200 square mile Marine base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows raw recruits ("boots") getting their equipment upon joining the Marines

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, practice "on the firing line"

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composi...

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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

John Brown Fort, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

John Brown Fort, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, W...

Significance: This structure was built in 1848 by the government to house the fire engines and watchman's house for the U.S. Armory. In 1859, Abolitionist John Brown and his followers, having sought refuge in t... More

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, East of Red Hill Avenue between Edinger Avenue & Barranca Parkway, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, East of Red Hill Avenue between Eding...

Significance: MCAS Tustin was originally built to support the function of the LTA ships and later became a major center for Marine helicopter aviation on the West Coast. The lighter-than-air ship hangars repre... More

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, East of Red Hill Avenue between Edinger Avenue & Barranca Parkway, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, East of Red Hill Avenue between Eding...

Significance: MCAS Tustin was originally built to support the function of the LTA ships and later became a major center for Marine helicopter aviation on the West Coast. The lighter-than-air ship hangars repre... More

If you want to fight! Join the Marines / Howard Chandler Christy.

If you want to fight! Join the Marines / Howard Chandler Christy.

Poster showing half-length portrait of a woman in military uniform, and a trench warfare scene with troops carrying the U.S. flag and the flag of the Marines.

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Golf Course Equipment & Repair Shop, Reeves & Moffett Roads, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Golf Course Equipment & Re...

Significance: Building 477 was built from Quonset huts which were erected on Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the late years of WWII. Thousands of Quonset huts were erected as temporary buildings worldwide duri... More

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Helium Tank Building No. 1, Near intersection of Meffett Avenue & Maxfield Street, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Helium Tank Building No. 1, Near inte...

Survey number: HABS CA-2707-C Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Marine Corps Air Station Ewa Aircraft Revetment Type, Bounded by Bismarck Sea, Brown, Tomes, & Hamilton Roads, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Marine Corps Air Station Ewa Aircraft...

Significance: The December 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on military bases in Hawaii devastated almost all aircraft parked on the airstrips in Hawaii. As a reaction to the proven vulnerability of exposed ai... More

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air  Ship Hangar, Meffett Avenue & Maxfield Street, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air Ship Hanga...

Survey number: HABS CA-2707-A Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

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