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SC 364413 - Native Police boys, driven out of Salamaua by the Japs occupation, return to assist at ceremonies of returning to its masthead the Union Jack, which formerly flew over Salamaua.
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SC 364569 - Loading a 155mm M1 rifle of Btry B, 49th Coast Artillery, Section 2, negro troops operating. 16 April, 1944.
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SC 184744 - Capt. Elmer O. Navarro, troop commander and CO of G Co., 126th Inf. of 32nd Div., explains to his officers a last minute change of plan.
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SC 170690 - Colonel John J. Carew, Captain Michael DeFinna, and Lt. James D. Doughty on a reconnaissance mission up a jungle trail, somewhere in New Guinea, 14 November, 1942.
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SC 329697 - Maj. Charles Davis, left, CO, 3rd Bn., 27th Inf., conferring with Gen. J. Lawton Collins, CO, 25th Div. New Guinea. 14 August, 1943.
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SC 171598-R - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Studiously avoiding looking at the camera, Japanese prisoners line up before entering their new stockades specially built which they were being temporarily housed in.
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SC 184758 - Crew manning Bofors gun two minutes before opening fire on Jap installations in New Guinea, using their AA gun as field artillery weapon.
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SC 184799 - Pvt. James W. Davis of Datto, Arkansas, and Pvt. Finis Houser of Houston, Texas, linemen carrying an 80lb reel of field wire over a bridge on New Guinea.
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Sea Turtle. (superfamily Chelonioidea)
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Baby Green Sea Turtle.
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SC 184759 - One of the 105mm guns showing the barrel protruding from camouflaged position at Saluse Village, Saluse Lake, north of Nassau Bay, New Guinea.
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SC 179468 - While the American forces were fighting the Japanese in the Chichagof area, supplies were brought to them by means of hand to hand carry, by lines of men extended over the route over which the supplies had to be moved...
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SC 179456 - This picture taken, looking northeast from the top of the high knoll overlooking Massacre Bay, shows dugouts dug by the American soldiers, prior to the raid, and during their initial attack on the Japanese in this area.
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SC 364492 - .50 caliber firing at Japanese installations on Manus Island, Admiralty Group, by Bos'n/M Jack Stranathan, Long Beach, Cal., and S/1 O Maurice Frolich, Meridan, Mississippi.
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A juvenile Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) sits alone in a field, long after most of the other chicks have fledged. It will likely not survive.
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A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) rests on the appropriately named Turtle Beach, next to a friendly crab
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A Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi) on North Beach at sunset. Photo taken from a distance of at least 50 feet.
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The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kukui departs Midway with 28 juvenile Laysan ducks that are being translocated to Kure Atoll as part of the USFWS Species Recovery Plan
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Coast Guard and Navy invaders display two Japanese flags w…
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USS Edward C. Daly (DE-17) operating in Alaskan waters on 17 February 1944 (80-G-265350)
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USS Hammondsport (APV-2) docked off Ford Island at Pearl Harbor, circa in February 1942 (80-G-K-464)
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USS Edward C. Daly (DE-17) operating in Alaskan waters, circa 1 June 1944 (NH 96032)
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SC 364573 - Few minutes after bloody Hill 60 was taken, an Americal machine gunner quickly sets up a position on the battered side of the hill formerly held by the Japs.
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A Marine automatic rifleman fires his weapon 3-400 yards beyond our frontline to protect some wounded Marines in the same hole with him, who are being fired upon by the Japs. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Snowflake Moray.
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The wave at the little Arch, and friends, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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Waikiki Beach Honolulu.
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SC 364606 - A 75mm cannon was carried to the 132nd Inf. Regt's front lines on Hill 260, by native labor, and was used for point blank fire against the Jap pill box that commanded the crest of the hill.
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Honolulu Cathedral cornerstone laying, colored engraving, George Henry Burgess, 5 March 1867
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A great frigatebird (Fregata minor) attacks a red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) mid-flight in an attempt to steal its food
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U.S. Coast Guardsmen and Marines unload supplies in the sh…
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F4U drop tanks Guadalcanal 1944
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USS Helena (CL-50) at a South Pacific base, circa in 1943 (NH 95814)
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Narrow gauge railway on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa in August 1943 (NH 89047)
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USS William D. Porter (DD-579) in Massacre Bay, Attu, on 9 June 1944 (NH 97804)
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USS William D. Porter (DD-579) in Massacre Bay, Attu, 9 June 1944 (NH 97804)
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Crashed Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo of VMF-211 aboard USS Long Island (AVG-1), 25 July 1942 (80-G-12906)
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USS Kimberly (DD-521) and USS Young (DD-580) at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 26 June 1945 (NH 99746)
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SC 329696 - Major John Britten, CO of 2nd Bn., 503rd Parachute Inf. Regt., checking some of his men into plane prior to practice jump at Port Moresby, New Guinea. 17 November, 1943.
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SC 405070 - American soldiers rescue Jap infant from small ledge partway up a steep rockpile along Nafuta ridge, bringing it down from its dangerous perch where it apparently was left by its parents.
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SC 335384 - Members of the 36th Fighter Sqdn at Hill Fighter Strip near Sa Jose, Mindoro Island, who were the first fighter squadron to land on the strip after encountering a group of Jap zeroes and shooting down four.
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SC 184756 - Chaplain Owen Monahan of 41st Div. Artillery holding services at newly-captured village in New Guinea, for men not actively involved in the battle 300 yards ahead. 25 July, 1943.
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USS Brownson (DD-518) off Kodiak, Alaska, on 13 September 1943 (80-G-213217)
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503681 Crooked River NG, The Island, Deschutes NF, OR 1960
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444 Beach at La Push Wash. Showing James Island - Ellis
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Smashed by a direct hit from Jap shore batteries at Saipan…
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The U.S. Marines salute the U.S. Coast Guard after the fur…
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This photo of a Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi) resting on the beach was published in the Dec. 2014 issue of WIRED Magazine. Photo taken from a distance of at least 50 feet.
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Crashed Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo of VMF-211 aboard USS Long Island (AVG-1) on 25 July 1942 (80-G-12905)
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LSM's (R) sending rockets at the shores of Pokishi Shima, near Okinawa, 5 days before invasion. - NARA - 520679
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USS Nassau (CVE-16) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 29 April 1944 (19-N-65105)
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USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) underway off the Palau Islands on 27 March 1944 (80-G-K-1560)
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USS Yorktown (CV-10) conducting air operations in December 1943 (80-G-K-15557)
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USS Dixie (AD-14) with Harmon (DE-678) at New Georgia 1944
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Japanese kamikaze crashes near LST-735 off Kerama Retto, 2 April 1945
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Vought F4U-1 Corsair on Barakoma Airfield, Vella Lavella, circa in late 1943 (80-G-K-14383)
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SC 364565 - Sgt. John C. Clark, Lorman, Miss., and S/Sgt. Ford M. Shaw, Tuscon, Arizo., (l-r) clean their rifles in bivouac area alongside the (illegible) Trail, Bogainville.
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SC 171591-R - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Jap prisoners receive their cot, mosquito netting and three blankets at new prison camp where they will live in tents after having been housed temporarily in a warehouse. 7 January, 1943.
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SC 329785 - Shore party and other troops on the beaches at this most newly invaded of Japanese islands were astonished to see a Red Cross tent set up serving hot coffee and donuts shortly after D-Day. Okinawa. 6 April, 1945.
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USS Drayton (DD-366) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 26 June 1944 (19-N-68063)
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USS Heermann (DD-532) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 9 January 1945 (BS 75259)
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SC 334750 - Troops of Companies E and G, 132nd Inf. Regt., 23rd Division, cross a stream in an area devastated by shellfire during their advance on Japanese pillboxes near the Torokina River. 7 April, 1944.
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USS Meredith (DD-434) at Suva, Fiji Islands, on 23 June 1942 (NH 89418)
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A sailboat attempting to enter the closed waters of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is met by Refuge staff, who learn that the ship's water maker has broken. They were given fresh water so they could return home.
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SC 364496 - Fireman 1st Class James I. Lynch, crew member of LCT, of Amelia, Virginia, stands by his .50 cal. machine gun on the bow watching for enemy planes, while subsistence supplies are being unloaded at Orange Beach, Arawe, New Britain.
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SC 374821 - L-R: S/Sgt. Wm. G. Baker, Oakland, Cal.; T/5 Wilson Cedars, Derry, La.; and back to camera, Smoky Johnson, Wooster, O., members of the 37th Recon Troop Patrol passing native hut at Karikakau village...
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B-26 Marauder with torpedo at Cold Bay AK in May 1942
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SC 171694 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Pfc. R. J. Tice, 2nd Marines, with both legs blown off by mortar fire smiles cheerfully at Chief Petty Officer R. E. Hughes, medical unit, as he is landed at New Caledonia...
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SC 364499 - Pvt. Andy Hamilton, Vincentown, New Jersey; Pvt. Chester Klovas, Chicago, Ill.; Pfc. Harry Reynolds, Loogoote, Ind.; gun crew of the .50 caliber machine gun is credited with half of 109 Japanese slain on Biak Island on the 22 June 1944.
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USS Louisville (CA-28) steams out of Kulak Bay, Adak, on 25 April 1943 (80-G-72060)
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