Post your WW2 Pacific & Asian War photos

[Peter H]

Insect helmet covers being worn at Kwajalien.

Distinguished by a cloth band loop that goes around the bottom of helmet.These were multifunctional acting as both a helmet cover and a protective insect net.'Bug net" could be pulled down from bottom,covering face,throat,neck etc.

[Peter H]

Couldn't resist.

The Three Stooges in No Dough,Boys,1944.

From www.dvdtalk.com

[Dan W.]

Ehh......wise guy, huh?

[Dan W.]

From Time-Life.

Not Winston Churchill but Admiral Shafroth offshore Japan:

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jfshafrothhr.htm


I think this photo was taken on USS Missouri,September 1945.

Note the framed flag behind him--Commodore Perry's flag from 1853:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_C._Perry

The original flag was brought to Japan for the Japan surrender ceremony and was displayed on that occasion at the request of Douglas MacArthur, who was himself a blood-relative of Perry. MacArthur had perhaps seen himself as a second benign "opener" of Japan. Some photographs of the signing ceremony show that this flag was actually displayed backward—reverse side showing (stars in the upper right corner). The cloth of the historic flag was so fragile that the conservator at the Naval Academy Museum directed that a protective backing be sewn on it, leaving its "wrong side" visible; and this was how Perry's 31-star flag was presented on this unique occasion.

A replica is on display today aboard the Missouri

[Peter H]

Thanks Dan,great pics.

Peter

[Peter H]

From: http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gall ... war-photos

This photo, in which three American soldiers lie dead in the sand on Buna Beach in New Guinea, was taken in February 1943, but was not published until September. It was the first time an image of dead American troops appeared in LIFE during World War II without the bodies being draped, in coffins, or otherwise covered up. George Strock's Buna Beach photo -- now acknowledged as a war classic -- and other equally gruesome and graphic pictures were finally OK'd by the Office of War Information's censors, in part because President Roosevelt feared that the American public might be growing complacent about the war and its horrific toll.

[Peter H]

The first Japanese war dead photo was published in Japanese newspapers in September 1944.

[Peter H]

If anything those photos are mild.

These photos of American dead somewhere in the Pacific were recently posted on gunboards forum.The poster(can't remember his name) obtained a photo album from a relative.Appears a US truck convoy got hit by enemy artillery and this was the result.Location not given.


GRAPHIC

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/vepeter/408.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/vepeter/411.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/vepeter/412.jpg

[Peter H]

Japanese war dead,various posters wehrmacht-awards.com

GRAPHIC

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/v ... s_-__2.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/v ... ies__4.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/v ... s_-__6.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/v ... s_-__7.jpg

[Peter H]

Found this on a Chinese website ages ago.

Said to be Australians captured at Kokoda,but the style of the uniform,belt etc suggest they might be Dutch.

[sonofsamphm1c]

Several weeks ago I was at the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas. At the bookstore I purchased "Give Me Fifty Marines Not Afraid To Die 'Iwo Jima'" by John Wells. A Lt. on Iwo Jima, his platoon scaled Mt. Suribachi and put up the first flag. His corpsman, John Bradley, was in the photograph of the 2nd flag raising.

I didn't get around to reading the book until two weeks ago. At around 160 pages into it, the author started talking about his initial landing. His platoon landed right on top of my father's platoon. I turned the page and there was a photograph I had never seen before. I looked at it for about a second and realized my father was staring right at me:

[Peter H]

Great find.It should make you proud.

[Peter H]

Garands with bayonets

From Militaria Magazine Feb 1993

[faf_476]

From The Pacific War ,West & Mattson.

Chinese colonists on Mindanao,Philippines welcome US forces 1945.Like most of the Chinese in SE Asia they had had a hard time under the Japanese.

Do you have the exact location in Mindanao of this photo?

[Peter H]

No mate,no exact location given.