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[edit] Battle of the Atlantic

[edit] Sinking of U-175 1943-04-17

U-175 breaks the surface

Picking survivors off U-175

U-175 sinks

[edit] European Theater

Nuremberg in ruins	American troops march down the Champs-Elysees	German officer POWs in Paris	Knocked out German coastal battery
Jedburghs receive a briefing	Jedburghs scale a brick wall	Jedburghs in front of B-24	Jedburghs on high bars
1st Special Service Force members being briefed at Anzio	Plan of typical German pillbox, Siegfried Line	Dragon's teeth near Brandscheid, Germany	101st Airborne on R&R at Königssee, June 1945
US Soldiers in Geilenkerchen, Germany stringing barbed wire	US soldiers take cover under fire in Germany	Truman's bedroom at Potsdam Conference	4 US MPs reading about German surrender
101st Airborne inspecting broken glider in Holland	Nijmegen with bridge in background, 1944	American mortar crew in action near the Rhine, 1945

[edit] Invasion of Normandy

Eisenhower & Bradley with a member of the French Resistance in Normandy

Eisenhower in jeep in Normandy orchard

Eisenhower talks with 502 PIR in England

[edit] Battle of the Bulge

28th Division on road in Bastogne	45th Division roadblock	101st Airborne in Bastogne, Christmas 1944	Digging graves for 101st Airborne KIA at Bastogne
101st Engineers near Wiltz, Luxembourg

[edit] Films

[edit] Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Intro text 1	Intro text 2	Title	Van Johnson as Capt. Ted Lawson
Phyllis Thaxter as Ellen Lawson	Robert Walker as Sgt. David Thatcher	Tim Murdock as Lt. Dean Davenport	Spencer Tracy as Col. James Doolittle
Doolittle in Washington, DC	Doolittle makes arrangements to train for the raid	The adaptation of Lawson's book into the film	The "Ruptured Duck" launches from the USS Hornet
The "Ruptured Duck" roars down the flight deck	The "Ruptured Duck" takes off	The Doolittle Raid	Cockpit of the "Ruptured Duck" during the Doolittle Raid
Tokyo is hit by the Doolittle Raiders	Cockpit of the "Ruptured Duck" during the Doolittle Raid	The crew is found by the Chinese	The crew is transported inland
The crew is transported inland	Lawson and crew leave China	Lawson and crew leave China	Ted and Ellen Lawson reunite
Ted and Ellen Lawson share a moment together	Ted and Ellen Lawson share a dance	Lawson about to ship out for the raid	Ted Lawson leaves for the raid
Ellen Lawson bids her husband goodbye	MGM credits	MGM credits

[edit] Homefronts

Donovan reviews OSS OGs

1st Special Service Force members boarding a C-47

[edit] Mediterranean theater

10th Engineer Battalion rebuilding bridge in Italy

[edit] North African theater

German officers captured in French Morocco

[edit] Pacific War

Assault barges heading for the beachhead during the invasion of Leyte	Marines held up on the beach at Peleliu	Marine with a radio on Peleliu	First wave of Marines on Saipan
Army reinforcements arrive on Saipan	Catholic cathedral in Nagasaki after the atomic bombing	US Marines on Namur Island	OSS Camp Y commandant
OSS personnel in Ceylon	OSS commo officers	Japanese aircraft attacking HMCS UGANDA	Landing operations on Rendova Island
Makeshift machine gun position, Pearl Harbor	American supplies being landed at Iwo Jima	Protestant service on Peleliu, 1944

[edit] Fortifications

[edit] Japanese

Dugout at Gander Point, Makin Atoll	Nusa Island battery double revetment	Anti-tank ditch	Anti-tank ditch on Butaritari
Anti-tank barricade on Butaritari

[edit] Philippines

26th Cavalry PI Scouts moving into Pozorrubio

Surrender on Bataan

Philippine Scouts engineers preparing sections for a pontoon bridge

[edit] Battle of Tarawa

5 Japanese POWs

Marine in action

Marine wounded being taken off in rubber boat

Marines take cover behind seawall at Red Beach no. 3,

[edit] People

Peter Fraser, PM of New Zealand	FDR in conference with MacArthur, Leahy and Nimitz in 1944	Scaler on a Liberty Ship	Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery receives the Order of Victory from Marshal Georgi Zhukov
American actress and singer Betty Hutton	Marshal Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim

[edit] US Army

1st Lieut. Annie Fox, the first woman to receive the Purple Heart	Generals Douglas MacArthur and Jonathan Wainright in Japan	Gen. Jonathan Wainright	Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton inspect Nazi war loot
American generals in captivity, July 1942	Dwight D. Eisenhower as a major

[edit] US Army Air Corps/US Air Force

James Doolittle in 1982	Elwood Quesada in 1940	Gabby Gabreski with 2 former 8th AF members
Howard C. Davidson decorating USAAF officers at Wheeler Field

[edit] US Navy

Chester Nimitz as ensign	Chester Nimitz as CNO	Secretary of the Navy Forrestal with Admirals King and Nimitz	Capt. Thomas J. Ryan, MOH recipient
Adm. Marc Mitscher	LCDR Thomas W. Marshall	LCDR Mildred H. McAfee	Rear Adm. Clarence Wade McClusky
Rear Adm. Andrew McKee	Ensign Robert W. Uhlmann	Capt. Lyman K. Swenson	CDR Arthur Murray Preston, MOH recipient
Lt. John James Powers, MOH recipient	Rear Adm. Richard Antrim, MOH recipient	CDR Samuel Dealey, MOH recipient	American pilots celebrate 17/20 Japanese aircraft en route to Tarawa
USS Lexington (CV-2) chart room	John McCain, Sr. & William Halsey on USS New Jersey