1st Marine Division troops land at Cape Gloucester, New Britain archipelago in the South Pacific, during Operation Dexterity; December 26, 1943.


Landing of Marines

A Marine corpsman gives medical aid to a wounded Japanese soldier on Roi-Namur, an island in the northern part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
By early 1944, the American juggernaut across the Central Pacific was beginning to gain momentum.


First Aid to the captured foe

A marine from the 2nd Marine Division poses with a captured Japanese 75-mm Type 41 (1908) mountain gun on the island of Saipan.