United States Armed Forces, Pacific World War 2

1943-1945

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1. With her planes lined up on the broad flight deck, the U.S.S. Saratoga steams through Pacific waters after completing a mission against the enemy about a year before she was hit by Japanese planes off Iwo Jima.
2. Heavy clouds of black smoke roll up from the burning flight deck of the U.S.S. Saratoga as crewmen work amid a network of fire hose, trying to check the flames on the stricken carrier
3. A giant crane hoists U.S.Navy PBM Martin Mariner flying boat aboard a seaplane tender for inspection and overhaul after the huge plane had completed a long patrol flight.
4. One of the Mitchell bombers of the U.S. Army 5th Air Force makes a direct hit on a Jap corvette that was trying to escape the attack in the Southwest Pacific area.
5. As the huge Superfortresses pull away from the bombing point over Yokohama, strings of incendiary bombs fall from the planes open bomb bays. This aerial assualt on May 29,1945, caused the greatest damage of any single attack and destroyed 69 square miles (17.9 sq.kms.) of the city's industial area.
6. Fire and smoke rise from the heart of the Kanto Special Steel Mfg. Co. plant at Fujisawa City, set fire by incendiary bombs of the U.S. Third Fleet carrier-based aircraft.
7. U.S. Marines cross rain-swollen stream as they advance toward the the front lines on Okinawa, main Ryukyu (Loochoo) island 375 miles (600 km.) from Japan.
8. U.S.Marines, weary from the battle for the entrance into Naha, capital of Okinawa, rest behind a protecting wall in the suburbs of the capital city.
9. Found on Atsugi Airdrome, on the outskirts of Tokyo, by the first troops to land in Japan, this medium bomber was one of the Japanese planes used in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941
10. The Bomb that ended the War - Hiroshima is atomised. A column of smoke nearly four miles high towers over Hiroshima, a few minutes after the first atomic bomb annihilated the Japanese city

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23 Oct 2024