Vintage WW2 Photos

Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan , ca. 1944

TRIBUTE TO THOMAS JOSEPH SIMPSON D DAY 6TH JUNE 1944

MILITARY PIC OF THE DAY (Into the jaws of death)

An LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of the Company E became casualties.   (Credit) MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY

 

WW2 WAR IN THE PACIFIC

 Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.