[tsowellfan]

Very nice!

[Vinnie]

ping for later

[Tainan]

An amazing group of historical photographs. Thanks.

[230FMJ]

for later

[Howie66]

Semper Fi bump!

[Caipirabob]

Awesome - I will show my son later. He and I have been watching a series of WWII documentaries lately so this is really great to come across.

[thackney]

Wow...

[I still care]

Just think, when we went into Iraq they made them take down the flag.

Also Haiti during the hurricane relief.

Even FDR would have been ashamed of that.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Those heavy mortars are something else. Wow.

[Rummyfan]

Good pics thanks!

[Mich Patriot]

Wow, I've never heard of this. Read the text below the pics!

Here an RAF pilot "tips" a Fieseler Fi 103 (V1) by flipping it's wingtip with his, thus knocking the flying bomb off-course. British pilots had to get far too close to shoot them down without being taken out by the explosion... thus the innovative technique evolved.

[oh8eleven]

Thanks for posting ... my dad was USMC and was at Guam and Bougainville.
The lack of camouflage helmet covers in the first two pictures would indicate the troops were Army GIs, not Marines.
I was unaware the Army made those landings. Time to do some double checking.

[Constitution Day]

Great photos ping.

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2011/04/some-rare-world-war-ii-photographs.html

[Wu]

Have seen “Bougainville, 1943” numerous times. The other two I have never seen. Good catch!

[adversarial]

Great pics, However at least one is misidentified.
The overhead shot of Marines wading through the surf is not
Tinian,it is actually Cape Gloucester, New Britain.I know this photo very well, I believe the man in the center is my
father.

[cayuga]

Thank you for posting these.

Some of these pictures have been published over the years, and a few are quite popular in specialty books.

The captions may not be correct on some of them. For example, the Snow on Deck photo is post-1947, by the red bar in the US insignia. The picture could be from the Korean War, but not WWII.

The Ju-88 is actually a Heinkel He 115, a plane so useful it was put back into production in 1943.

I only mention the errors because, once published, they acquire a life of their own.

[wideminded]

Rheinmetall Karl-Gerät self-propelled heavy mortars at Sevastopol

Guess who made the barrels of the M1A1 Abrams tank.

[patriot08]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

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[r9etb]

Where have these been hiding for the past 65 years...?

Hiding? At least the last two were published in Life Magazines Picture History of WWII.