Crewmen lifting injured Kenneth Bratton (AOM) out of turret of Grumman TBF "Avenger" on the USS Sara…

Ground crewmen from the VF-17 "Jolly Rogers" await word to next to Vought F4U Corsair fighter ready …

 A B-17 overhead drops supplies and American paratroopers of the 1st Battalion, 503rd Parachute Inf…

 Soldiers of the 1st Marine Division display Japanese flags captured during the Battle of Cape Glou…

 Patrol Torpedo Boat of the PT-103 class at speed. These 80-foot (24.4-meter) boats, manufactured b…

 In this iconic photo by LIFE photographer George Strock, three Americans lie dead after they were …

 Soldiers of the 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division wade through a three-foot surf from Infan…

 Group of Marines at rest are with K Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Divisi…

 The first wave of the assault force moved ashore, Third Marine Division during the landings on Bou…

 Soldiers with 37th Infantry (Army) Division try to secure landing craft in heavy surf after landin…

 American military cemetery at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Pacific Theater of War, 1944.

 Japanese Destroyer is hit by TBM Avenger torpedo bomber near Guadalcanal, Solomons, November 1942.…