US Marine N.E. Carling, stands besides a Sherman tank "Killer" on which is mounted a Japanese ligh…

 Grummen F6F Hellcat fighter with Fighting Squadron Five "VF-5" is taking off from the deck of the …

 Pilots celebrate on board the USS Lexington after shooting down 17 out of 20 Japanese planes headi…

 USS Iowa firing 16" guns during battle in the Pacific, 1944.

 Japanese torpedo bomber explodes in air after a direct hit by 5 inch shell from U.S. aircraft carr…

7th Infantry Division in Coast Guard-manned landing craft during the Battle of Kwajalein, January 31…

 First wave of American troops with the 163rd Infantry Regiment hit the beach from landing craft du…

 American plane sweeps overhead to strafe the Japanese army hidden in their coral trenches, while a…

 Men with the 7th Marine Division using flame throwers to smoke out the Japanese from a block house…

Red Cross field men preparing to ship gift boxes to servicemen fighting on Leyte and other islands i…

Sailor is getting another tatoo aboard the "U.S.S. New Jersey" with Task Group 58.2 for the assault …

These Marines weary from two days and two nights of continuous fighting the on Eniwetok Atoll. Pfc. …

 Devastation of Kwajalein, the preparatory bombardment of Kwajalein Island was unprecedented in the…

 Soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division use a M1-1 flamethrower on a Japanese-held bunker on Kwajale…

 Construction in and around Kwajalein Atoll began as soon as the Americans landed. The 121st Constr…

 Marines unloading supplies from LST, at Majuro Island, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, March 1944.…

  The U.S. 4th marine division raise the American flag on Roi, to signify the end of fighting on th…