A Marine standing on top of Mt. Suribachi, Feb 1945
May 10, 2013, 12:00pm / 461
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A Marine of the 3rd Marine Division goes after a Japanese sniper who’d hidden in a shelled out building on Guam, August 1944
May 09, 2013, 5:00pm / 51
The US Army practicing for the Normandy landings at the Slepton Sands, 1944
May 09, 2013, 4:00pm / 58
The body of a Marine of the 5th Marine Division that was shot and killed by a Japanese sniper while advancing on the beach, 19 Feb 1945/Sgt. Bob Cooke
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May 09, 2013, 3:00pm / 33
A US Marine packed LCI trailing behind the US Coast Guard envoy en route for the invasion of Cape Sansapor, New Guinea 1944
May 09, 2013, 2:00pm / 46
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