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American Commanders in France. American leaders are shown during their tour of the Normandy battlefields. Left to right, back row, are General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Omar N. Bradley, commander of U.S. ground forces in France, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander-in-Chief AEF. Seated next to the driver in front is Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief ...

U.S. ''BABY FLAT-TOP'' CITED FOR SUBMARINE SINKINGS. Pilots aboard the U.S. Navy escort aircraft carrier Card-work on serial navigation problems before taking off on a hunt for German submarines in the Atlantic. The Card, one of a fleet of small U.S. aircraft carriers converted from merchant hulls and assigned to anti-submarine patrol, recently received a Presidential Unit Citation. The carrier, her ...

Japanese plant on Saipan after naval and aerial bombardment. A Japanese factory near Garapan on the Island of Saipan in the Central Pacific Marianas group stands in ruins after American naval and aerial bombardment of the island during the landings of U.S. Marines on June 14, 1944. U.S. troops drove ahead to the ridges above the enemy-hold city of Garapan liberating 60 per cent of the island by July ...

A full deckload of America's War Birds. The aircraft carrier Lexington, of the U.S. Navy, carried a full deckload of planes when she left Hampton Roads, Virginia, with other ships of the Pacific Fleet on the way back to the West Coast. This striking aerial view shows the Lexington setting out with a full complement of War Birds on board.

U.S. Marine cleans his gun for action on Saipan Island. An American Marine, who helped capture Saipan Island from the Japanese, cleans his mobile gun during a pause in the fierce 25-day battle that ended in complete U.S. control of the Marianas island 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from Japan. American troops stormed ashore on June 14, 1944, and smashed back the Japanese into a trap on the northern ...

BATTLESHIPS OF THE U.S. NAVY PLOW THROUGH THE PACIFIC. Four U.S. Navy battleships smash across the Pacific on a mission against the enemy. Massive in their armor and terrible in their concentrated firepower, these ships are among those which have dealt punishing blows to the Japanese stolen empire and to the elusive Japanese Navy. In the foreground fighter planes and dive bombers are spotted on the ...

General Eisenhower receives Freedom of the City of London. General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower (right, in carriage), Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, is cheered by enthusiastic crowds as he drives from Temple Bar on Fleet Street to the historic Guildhall to receive the Freedom of the City of London and the traditional sword from the Lord Mayor. He is accompanied by ...

Japanese air and sea installations blasted by U.S. naval planes. Japanese ships, fuel dumps and a wharf (background) blaze furiously and an enemy airstrip is pitted with bomb craters, following a raid by American carrier-based planes on Pagan Island, in the northern Marianas of the Pacific. As U.S. ground troops steadily pushed back Japanese defenders of Saipan, second largest island in the Marianas ...

U.S. Marines seek out Japanese on Saipan Island. A patrol of U.S. Marines follows Japanese communication lines to locate fortified enemy positions on Saipan Island before that strategic Marianas base was won by Americans on July 8, 1944. American troops dislodged the Japanese from carefully prepared defense positions, pounding back the enemy into a trap on the northern end of the Central Pacific island ...

Small craft transport naval officers to pre-landing parley near Borneo. Small craft serving high ranking officers idle in the water near the flagship of a U.S. Naval admiral holding a conference preceding the June 9, 1945 Allied landings on Borneo. The landing - the first of the war on the mainland of Borneo - was made in the Brunei Bay area of Borneo's northwest coast and on Labuan Island, guarding ...