Burial at sea of two enlisted men of the ill-fated U.S. Navy aircraft carrier LISCOME BAY. It was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Gilbert Islands. Services are held on the deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport. November, 1943.
Captured German photograph of American soldiers, stripped all equipment, lying face down in the slush of a crossroads somewhere on the western front of Belgium. Note the bare feet of the soldier in the foreground. Originally photographed December, 1944.
A Coast Guard seaman died at his battle station aboard the USS MENGES, torpedoed by a Nazi sub in the Mediterranean. He represents the old Coast Guard expression, "You have to go out, but you don't have to come back" (author unknown). Originally photographed in 1944.
Silhouetted in a Pacific sunrise, crosses mark the graves of American boys who gave their lives to win a small atoll on the road to the Philippines. A Coast Guardsman stands in silent reverence beside the resting place of a comrade. Originally photographed in 1944.
Dust storm at a War Relocation Authority center in Manzanar, California. Here evacuees of Japanese ancestry spent the duration of the war. Originally photographed July 3, 1942.
Following evacuation orders, this store was closed. The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the "I AM AN AMERICAN" sign on the store front the day after Pearl Harbor. Originally photographed in Oakland, California, April 1942.
Marines wounded during the landing on Tarawa are towed out on rubber boats by their buddies to larger vessels that will take them to base hospitals for better medical care. Originally photographed in November 1943.
An American cemetery where two Coast Guardsman stand and pay tribute to their comrades who lost their lives in action in the Ryukyu Islands. Originally photographed in 1945.
The five Sullivan brothers, all of whom were tragically lost in the sinking of the U.S.S. Juneau, November 13, 1942. The Sullivans -- George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert -- were natives of Waterloo, Iowa. As a direct result of the Sullivans' deaths, the U.S. War Department adopted the Sole Survivor Policy.
Transfer of wounded from USS BUNKER HILL to USS WILKES BARRE; injured during fire aboard the carrier following Japanese suicide dive bombing attack off Okinawa. Originally photographed May 11, 1945.
French civilians in Carentan, France erect a silent tribute to an American soldier who fell in the crusade to liberate France from Nazi domination. Originally photographed June 17, 1944.
Wounded of the war. In an underground surgery room, behind the front lines on Bougainville, an American Army doctor operates on a U.S. soldier wounded by a Japanese sniper. Originally photographed December 13, 1943.
Lt. Gen. Valin, Chief of Staff, French Air Force, awards the Croix De Guerre with Palm to Col. Jimmy Stewart for exceptional services in the liberation. Date unknown.
Allies grand-strategy conference in North Africa. Adm. E. J. King, Winston Churchill; President Franklin Roosevelt; Standing, Maj. Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay; Lord Louis Mountbatten; and Field Marshall Sir John Dill. Originally photographed in 1943.
Marine Maj. Gen. Lemuel Shepherd, commanding general of the 6th Marine Division, relaxing on an Okinawan ridge consulting a map of the terrain. Originally photographed ca. June 1945.
American generals, seated left to right: William H. Simpson, George S. Patton, Jr., Carl Spaatz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney H. Hodges, and Leonard T. Gerow; standing are Ralph F. Stearley, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Walter Bedell Smith, Otto P. Weyland, and Richard E. Nugent. Circa 1945.
Ceremony at the Naval Training Station (NAVTRASTA) at Great Lakes, Chicago, as seen from the roof of a main administration building. Originally photographed in 1942.
General Charles de Gaulle as he speaks to the people of Cherbourg from the balcony of the City Hall during his visit to the French port city on August 20, 1944.
Conference of the Big Three at Yalta makes final plans for the defeat of Germany. Here the "Big Three" sit on the patio together, Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Josef Stalin. Originally photographed in February 1945.
General Douglas MacArthur as he wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte after American forces engaged a gigantic liberation armada into the central Philippines. At this historic moment, the General made good his promise `I shall return.' Originally photographed in October, 1944.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. inspecting art treasures stolen by Germans and hidden in salt mine in Germany. Originally photographed April 12, 1945.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt reviewing American troops in Casablanca, Morocco. Staff Sergeant Oran Lass of Kansas City, Missouri, is driving the jeep. Originally photographed in January, 1943.
Brig. Gen. Anthony C. Mcauliffe, artillery commander of the 101st Airborne Division, gives his various glider pilots last minute instructions before the take-off on D plus 1. Originally photographed in England, September 18, 1944.
Douglas MacArthur as he surveys the beachhead on Leyte Island soon after American forces swept ashore from a gigantic liberation armada into the central Philippines. At this historic moment, the General made good his promise `I shall return.' Originally photographed in 1944.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower giving the orders, 'Full victory - nothing else' to paratroopers in England, just before they board airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe, June 6, 1944.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright greet each other at the New Grand Hotel, Yokohama, Japan, August 31, 1945, in their first meeting since they parted on Corregidor more than three years before.
Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai Shek and Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, Commanding General, China Expeditionary Forces, on the day following Japanese bombing attack (Doolittle Raid) in Maymyo, Burma. Originally photographed April 19, 1942.
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, RN, addresses personnel aboard the USS SARATOGA at Trincomalee, Ceylon. Adm. Mountbatten (center) on flight deck. Originally photographed in April 1944.
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signs the German-Soviet nonaggression pact in Moscow. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Josef Stalin stand behind him. Originally photographed August 23, 1939.
General George Patton's I Armored Corps trains in the Imperial Valley of California in preparation of Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. For these exercises, Patton chose a 10,000-acre expanse of unforgiving desert, known for its blistering temperatures, sandy arroyos and absolute desolation. It was a close match for the terrain Patton and his men would encounter during the campaigns in North Africa. To this day, one can still find tank tracks, foxholes and spent shell casing in an area about 50 miles southeast of Palm Springs. Originally photographed in 1942.
The Casablanca conference at Casablanca, Morocco. President Roosevelt with Major General George S. Patton, Jr., affixing the Congressional Medal of Honor upon Brig. General William H. Wilbur in the presence of General George C. Marshall. Originally photographed in 1943.
President Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Germany. He is pictured seated at a desk with four men behind him. Originally photographed December 11, 1941.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in conference with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Admiral W. D. Leahy, while on tour in Hawaiian Islands. Originally photographed in 1944.
The Crimean Conference. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Marshal Joseph Stalin at the palace in Yalta, where the Big Three met on February of 1945. U.S. Signal Corps photo.
American and British military leaders at Casablanca. Portrait includes Winston Churchill (seated third from left), Franklin D. Roosevelt (4th from left), and General Sir Alan Brooke (5th from left) with other military leaders in conference, Casablanca, Morocco, during World War II. Originally photographed January, 1943.
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