Part Two of a Memorial Day weekend series. "Americans in World War Two" is about as broad as you get, and I haven't even tried to encapsulate it; rather I've selected a collection of compelling photographs in the general spirit of remembering those who fought and what they had to go through.
A medic gives blood plasma to a wounded soldier, Sicily, 1943. Source
Wounded soldiers await evacuation on Omaha Beach, France, 1944. Source
Infantrymen firing mortars ( holding their ears as they do) after crossing the Rhine, Germany, 1945. Source
American soldiers coming ashore under fire, D-Day, 1944. Source
Troops carry causalities, the Philippines, 1945. Source
An infrantryman runs across an open field on a sortie, Belgim, 1944. Source
Soldiers marching through the Siegfried Line, Germany, 1945. Source
Soldiers huddle together while crossing the Rhine under heavy enemy fire, Germany, 1945. Source
A soldier tends to a wounded comrade, Okinawa, 1945. Source
An American soldier just back from the front lines at the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945. Source
A soldier grabbing some sleep in a lined foxhole, Italy, 1944. Source
Food being served to soldiers on the way to the front line at the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945. Source
Soldiers marching along a desert roadway in Tunisia, 1943. Source
Medics carrying a casualty from the battlefield, France, 1944. Source
German POWs carry the body of an American soldier killed in the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945. Source
A medic recommended for a Silver Star for setting up a dressing station and helping over 330 servicemen on the beaches of Normandy at D-Day, France, 1944. Source
Exhausted Marines after two days of fighting on Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1944. Source
Graves of soldiers killed in the battle for Tarawa Atholl, Gilbert Islands, 1944. Source
A Coastguardsman bows his head at the grave of a comrade, the Pacific, 1944. Source
3 comments:
I would like to use one of these photos - #7, the Americans marching through the mud on the Siegfried Line -- to illustrate a quote on my blog, littlegreybungalow.blogspot.com.
Do you mind? thank you.
Sorry to take so long to reply! I'm glad to see you did use it (and very appropriate quote!). Just about all the pictures I use are licensed for anyone to use (at least in a "personal, non-commercial" way), so everyone has just as much right to them as me. :) (the only ones not in that category are the few from my own collection). But I appreciate the thought in asking!
World war 2 like this war we have never seen before, its take maximum soldier are died in that war. Maximum people are well known about the history, they are just laugh on that. If you are a history buff you will enjoy this. This is a must see for the World War 2 photo album where history buff and interest of history is to be begin.
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