Post your WW2 Pacific & Asian War photos

[Peter H]

Various posters,from: http://www.fotosmilitares.org/index.php

Saipan

[Peter H]

Guam

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Okinawa

[Peter H]

Gilberts/Tarawa

[Peter H]

Iwo Jima

[Peter H]

Iwo again

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Last..

[Peter H]

From Pacific Legacy,Rex Alan Smith & Gerald Meehl,2002.

Urinal,Russell Islands

[Peter H]

Japanese "Surrender Ticket" airdropped in there thousands over Guadalcanal

[Peter H]

Villagers try and sell "authentic" Japanese souvenirs to a PT crew in North Borneo

[Peter H]

James Michener--"To put it quite simply,Bora Bora is the most beautiful island in the world.."

From: http://blogtrotta.blogspot.com/2007/03/bora-bora.html





Operation Bobcat
http://www.boraboraisland.com/tosee/sights.html

Operation Bobcat, as it was called, transformed the island of Bora Bora into a stronghold of the US, chosen for its strategic location in the Pacific... Leaving South Carolina in late January, 1942, only a few weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a supply force of nine ships, 20,000 tons of equipment, and nearly 5,000 men travelled to Bora Bora. From early 1942 to mid 1946, Operation Bobcat remained in action, and at its high point, utilized the military services of nearly 6,000 men.

Bora Bora:the Coral airstrip built offshore and still in use today

[Peter H]

From ebay,seller therebelslacker

Major-General Charles L. Mullins Jr,commander 25th Infantry Division,examines Japanese sword on Luzon

[Peter H]

From Pacific Legacy,Rex Alan Smith & Gerald Meehl,2002.

Ditched B-29 off Saipan

[Peter H]

Napalm drop tank being loaded

[Dan W.]

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:

That is an amazing find, good on you. If you find more photos on this battle in the future the possibility exists you may see him again in other photos as well. Iwo Jima was described as a true battleground, no civilians, an entrenched enemy awaiting those arriving to kill him. A brutal battle indeed.