1st Division Marines return from the front line to rest in the rear on Cape Gloucester, on the northern side of the far west part of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea; January 1944.

Rest on the tropical island

Marine looking over the shrapnel damage done to an 81mm mortar tube whose firing pit took a hit from Japanese counter-battery fire. Unexploded rounds from the tube lie half submerged in mud and rain water, and most of the rest of the position was shredded by shrapnel. The photo was taken in the spring of 1945 on Okinawa.
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Direct hit

Private James Swick with a captured Japanese 70 mm Type 92 howitzer on the island of Saipan july 1944.
taken from fb/Landing Vehicle Tracked LVT4