An American Marine poses with a captured Japanese Type 94 tankette; Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, February 1944.

Infantry support or for reconnaissance

Private James Sweek of the 2nd United States Marine Division with a captured Japanese Type 92 70mm Battalion Howitzer on Saipan, Mariana Islands; July 1944.

Japanese artillery piece

US M3 self-propelled guns and Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines during the fighting at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, South Pacific Ocean; January, 1944.

Camouflaged Marine Guns

An American self-propelled gun M3 leaves the landing ship on the coast of Cape Gloucester on the island of New Britain. Papua New Guinea, South Pacific Oean; January, 1944.

Self-propelled gun off the LST

U.S. Marines invade Tinian Island in the Pacific.

Marines on Tinian

American Marines in front of destroyed Japanese tanks; a Type 95 "Ha-Go" and a Type 97 "Chi-Ha". Near the tank is the body of a dead Japanese tanker; 1944.


Destroyed Japanese tanks

On one of the Pacific islands, a Marine "gropes" a Japanese soldier. The "groping" consisted of pricking with the bayonet the possibly dead Japanese. This was done to find out if he was really dead or faking it, as this was a technique used by the Japanese to later immolate themselves. If you look at the tip of the bayonet, you will see that it is darkened, it is blood, which shows that this Marine has already pricked other soldiers.
taken from fb/Daniel Del Moral

Checking out or 'Groping'

A Douglas R4D transport plane (center) loads wounded Marines on Iwo Jima’s South Airfield, for evacuation to a Navy hospital on Guam; March 1945.
   Mount Suribachi is visible on the left.

South Airfield with transport planes

Private Ahrens was found dead after killing several Japanese in hand to hand combat. His last words were that the Enemy must not have known he was a United States Marine. He was Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor!

Edward Ahrens

Despite enemy fire, 2nd Division Marines wade toward the shore at Tarawa Island, Gilbert Islands Group, North Pacific Ocean. 
Landing boats and barges brought them to within 500 yards of the beach, but the coral bottom prevented the boats coming any closer to the shore. LVTs were able to cross the reef and deliver Marines and supplies to the shore, but there were too few and most were knocked out. Casualties were heavy; 20-23 November, 1943.

Marines coming in at Tarawa

A Marine tends to the grave of Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions at Guadacanal. He died while leading an assault at Iwo Jima island, Central Pacific; 1945.
   Mount Suribachi is visible in the background.

R.I.P. in company of heroes

Sheltering in the rubble of a Japanese fortification, Marine casualties are given medical attention at an aid station in the cliffs near the East Boat Basin on the island of Iwo Jima, Central Pacific; February 26, 1945. 

Tending the wounded in the rubble

At the March 21, 1945 dedication of the 5th Marine Division cemetery on Iwo Jima, the cemetery flag is raised. The 5th Division had lost 1,500 men killed or wounded by the end of just the second day of fighting on the island. 

Hallowed Ground on Iwo JIma

A slightly expanded photo of the one already posted - 
A machine gun crew of the 5th Marine Division with a Browning M1917 machine gun, firing at the enemy on the island of Iwo Jima. Empty ammunition boxes and spent shell casings all around them.; March 5, 1945.
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Machine gun crew in action

A U.S. Marine posing with a captured Japanese Type 99 light machine gun with a long bayonet, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Pacific Ocean; 15 July, 1944.
   Must be awkward to be in close combat with that combination...

Bayonet on a machine gun...?

Pacific Island Fighting during World War II.

Marines on Tarawa

A machine gun captured from the Japanese at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, South Pacific, is being used by two American Marines; November, 1942.

Used against the former owners

US Marines carry one of their wounded to an aid station on the island of Guadalcanal, Solomon islands; August 1942 - February 1943.

Battle casualty of the Marines

During a break in the fighting on Saipan, Mariana Islands, Marines of a flamethrower and demolitions team pose with a captured Japanese flag; June 15 - July 9, 1944..

Posing with a captured enemy flag

US Marines ride an LVT-1 amphibious vehicle on Bougainville Island, South Pacific; December 23, 1943.

Bougainville, Solomon Islands

Expecting stiff Japanese opposition (that did not materialize), men of the 3rd Marine Division wade ashore on Blue Beach on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific; November 1, 1943.
 

Marines on Blue Beach

Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was one of the Marines who raised the second U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, as shown in the iconic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by photographer Joe Rosenthal. Of the six Marines depicted in the photo, Strank was the only one to be correctly identified from the beginning; the other five were either assigned the wrong locations (Ira Hayes and Franklin Sousley), or, were given the names of Marines who were not actually in that particular photo.

Young hero - R.I.P.

Another photo of the first flag raised by the US Marines on Mount Suribachi, on the island of Iwo Jima; February 23, 1945.

So proudly we hail

US Marines of the 1st Division, in LVT Buffalo, heading for Peleliu Beach, on one of the Palau Islands in the western Pacific; September 15, 1944.
 

Soon to hit the beach

Marines from the 5th Division celebrate Japan's surrender by boarding a jeep with musical instruments, a US flag and a homemade banner that says "Peace". Iwo Jima Island. ; September 1945.

US Marines

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