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WW2AS1_170604_006.JPG: The Road to Tokyo
Facing the Rising Sun
WW2AS1_170604_011.JPG: Chiang
WW2AS1_170604_016.JPG: Churchill
WW2AS1_170604_021.JPG: Roosevelt
WW2AS1_170604_026.JPG: Hirohito
WW2AS1_170604_035.JPG: Axis Military Leaders
WW2AS1_170604_037.JPG: Yamamoto Isoroku
WW2AS1_170604_040.JPG: Count Terauchi Hisaichi
WW2AS1_170604_042.JPG: Yamashita Tomoyuki
WW2AS1_170604_045.JPG: Nagumo Chuichi
WW2AS1_170604_046.JPG: Homma Masaharu
WW2AS1_170604_049.JPG: Tojo Hideki
WW2AS1_170604_064.JPG: Japanese Onslaught
WW2AS1_170604_065.JPG: Allied Military Leaders
WW2AS1_170604_068.JPG: Claire Lee Chennault
WW2AS1_170604_070.JPG: Joseph W. Stilwell
WW2AS1_170604_072.JPG: Lord Louis Mountbatten
WW2AS1_170604_074.JPG: Raymond A. Spruance
WW2AS1_170604_076.JPG: William Halsey, Jr.
WW2AS1_170604_079.JPG: Chester Nimitz
WW2AS1_170604_082.JPG: Douglas MacArthur
WW2AS1_170604_096.JPG: First Blood
WW2AS1_170604_121.JPG: Doris "Dorie" Miller
WW2AS1_170604_124.JPG: Life Aboard Ship
WW2AS1_170604_129.JPG: Defective Torpedoes
WW2AS1_170604_132.JPG: Submarines
WW2AS1_170604_139.JPG: Doolittle Raid
WW2AS1_170604_143.JPG: James Doolittle
WW2AS1_170604_146.JPG: Midway
WW2AS1_170604_150.JPG: Laying a Trap
WW2AS1_170604_152.JPG: Decisive Victory
WW2AS1_170604_157.JPG: Carriers
WW2AS1_170604_160.JPG: Imperial Japanese Navy
WW2AS1_170604_163.JPG: Naval Aviators
WW2AS1_170604_166.JPG: Airdales
WW2AS1_170604_169.JPG: Battle of the Coral Sea
WW2AS1_170604_173.JPG: Set up to Showdown
WW2AS1_170604_186.JPG: Guadalcanal
Green Hell
WW2AS1_170604_188.JPG: Green Hell
WW2AS1_170604_208.JPG: Battle Ensign of USS Crescent City
WW2AS1_170604_222.JPG: Anti-Tank Gun M3A1
on Carriage M4A1
WW2AS1_170604_224.JPG: Toehold in the Solomons
WW2AS1_170604_228.JPG: Savo Island and the Eastern Solomons
WW2AS1_170604_231.JPG: "Battle of the Tenaru"
WW2AS1_170604_233.JPG: Guadalcanal
Bloody Ridge
WW2AS1_170604_237.JPG: PT Boats vs Tokyo Express
WW2AS1_170604_244.JPG: Cactus Air Force
WW2AS1_170604_248.JPG: Battle of Cape Esperance
WW2AS1_170604_252.JPG: Guadalcanal Map Overlay
WW2AS1_170604_263.JPG: Straining to Win
WW2AS1_170604_268.JPG: The Fight for Henderson Field
WW2AS1_170604_276.JPG: Japanese Ground Attack
WW2AS1_170604_279.JPG: Final Naval Battles
WW2AS1_170604_285.JPG: Securing the Island
WW2AS1_170604_292.JPG: Medal of Honor Awarded to First Lt. Jefferson DeBlanc, USMC
WW2AS1_170604_322.JPG: No Surrender
WW2AS1_170604_327.JPG: Japanese Propaganda
WW2AS1_170604_340.JPG: Allied Propaganda
WW2AS1_170604_343.JPG: This cartoon, published in the US Marine Corps magazine Leatherneck, depicts the Japanese as lice, with the first outbreak reported at Honolulu on December 7, 1941, the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
WW2AS1_170604_347.JPG: This 1942 poster depicting a caricature of a Japanese soldier carrying away a captive white woman was submitted to a "This is the Enemy" contest and displayed in an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
WW2AS1_170604_349.JPG: Jungle Fighting
WW2AS1_170604_358.JPG: Pacific Campaign Challenges
Fighting in the Tropics
WW2AS1_170604_368.JPG: Fighting in the Tropics
WW2AS1_170604_394.JPG: Pacific Campaign Challenges
Base Construction
WW2AS1_170604_405.JPG: Deadly Instruments of War
WW2AS1_170604_411.JPG: M2 Flamethrower
WW2AS1_170604_419.JPG: Loneliness and Misery
WW2AS1_170604_422.JPG: Medical Advances
WW2AS1_170604_425.JPG: Interfaith Chaplains
WW2AS1_170604_428.JPG: Island Hopping
Footholds Across the Pacific
WW2AS1_170604_432.JPG: Footholds Across the Pacific
WW2AS1_170604_448.JPG: Strategic Overview
WW2AS1_170604_457.JPG: New Guinea
WW2AS1_170604_460.JPG: Battle of Bismarck Sea
WW2AS1_170604_463.JPG: Allied Counterattack
WW2AS1_170604_468.JPG: Tarawa
WW2AS1_170604_474.JPG: Bloody Betio
WW2AS1_170604_479.JPG: Japanese Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun
WW2AS1_170604_486.JPG: Breaking the Outer Ring
WW2AS1_170604_492.JPG: Japanese Type 94 37mm Gun
WW2AS1_170604_494.JPG: Truk
WW2AS1_170604_499.JPG: Invasion of the Marshalls
WW2AS1_170604_501.JPG: New Enemy Tactics
WW2AS1_170604_504.JPG: Strategic Overview
WW2AS1_170604_507.JPG: New Weapons and Tactics
WW2AS1_170604_511.JPG: Isolating Rabaul
WW2AS1_170604_518.JPG: Airpower
WW2AS1_170604_522.JPG: Air Bases Across the Pacific
WW2AS1_170604_530.JPG: Betio Island Map
WW2AS1_170604_538.JPG: China Burma India
The Pacific War's Second Front
WW2AS1_170604_542.JPG: The Pacific War's Second Front
WW2AS1_170604_560.JPG: Keeping China in the War
WW2AS1_170604_567.JPG: Joseph Stilwell
WW2AS1_170604_575.JPG: Flying the Hump
WW2AS1_170604_578.JPG: Ledo Road
WW2AS1_170604_588.JPG: 75mm Pack Howitzer M1A1
WW2AS1_170604_594.JPG: Lifeline to China
WW2AS1_170604_600.JPG: Identification Flag or "Blood Chit":
Blood chits bore multilingual messages promising a reward upon the safe return of downed Allied airmen. They were also worn inside flight jackets or carried by aircrew.
WW2AS1_170604_607.JPG: Ledo Road Patch:
This insignia, never officially approved by the US Army, was designed for those who constructed the Ledo Road. The patch shows the supply route winding through the mountains and into China. The task was deemed impossible many times, but was completed in January 1945 after years of labor by 15,000 army engineer troops, 60 percent of whom were African Americans.
WW2AS1_170604_613.JPG: CBI Escape Map, January 1944
WW2AS1_170604_617.JPG: Raiders and Covert Operations
WW2AS1_170604_623.JPG: "Merrill's Marauders"
WW2AS1_170604_645.JPG: P-40 Warhawk
WW2AS1_170604_647.JPG: Claire Chennault
WW2AS1_170604_649.JPG: Wielding Air Power
WW2AS1_170604_666.JPG: Marianas Campaign
WW2AS1_170604_670.JPG: Saipan
WW2AS1_170604_673.JPG: Battle of the Philippine Sea
WW2AS1_170604_675.JPG: Guam and Tinian
WW2AS1_170604_679.JPG: Pied Piper of Saipan
WW2AS1_170604_680.JPG: Code Talkers
WW2AS1_170604_684.JPG: New Enemy Tactics
WW2AS2_170604_001.JPG: Philippines
Returning to the Philippines
WW2AS2_170604_005.JPG: Returning to the Philippines
WW2AS2_170604_021.JPG: MacArthur's Vow
WW2AS2_170604_024.JPG: A Filipino displays gruesome evidence of the Tapel Massacre, Luzon. It was one of many large and small scale atrocities committed by Japanese forces across Asia and the Pacific.
WW2AS2_170604_030.JPG: Pepeliu
WW2AS2_170604_032.JPG: Allied Advance
WW2AS2_170604_034.JPG: Leyte Gulf
WW2AS2_170604_039.JPG: Battle of Leyte Gulf
WW2AS2_170604_041.JPG: Kamikaze Attacks
WW2AS2_170604_045.JPG: Battle of Manila
WW2AS2_170604_052.JPG: Victory in the Philippines
WW2AS2_170604_054.JPG: Japanese Vice Admiral's Flag and binoculars from battleship Nagato
WW2AS2_170604_060.JPG: From Leyte to Luzon
WW2AS2_170604_066.JPG: Rescuing POWs
WW2AS2_170604_069.JPG: Death at Japan's Doorstep
First Assault Onto Japanese Soil
WW2AS2_170604_072.JPG: First Assault Onto Japanese Soil
WW2AS2_170604_085.JPG: Daunting Japanese Defenses
WW2AS2_170604_087.JPG: John Basilone
WW2AS2_170604_090.JPG: Iwo Jima Flag Raisers
WW2AS2_170604_093.JPG: Iwo Jima
WW2AS2_170604_097.JPG: Escalating Violence
WW2AS2_170604_109.JPG: Iwo Jima Illustrations
by Stephen McMurray
WW2AS2_170604_138.JPG: Moving Inland
WW2AS2_170604_144.JPG: Kamikaze Attacks
WW2AS2_170604_149.JPG: Terrible Losses
WW2AS2_170604_151.JPG: USS Franklin (CV-13)
WW2AS2_170604_155.JPG: Death at Japan's Doorstep
Okinawa
WW2AS2_170604_159.JPG: Ernie Pyle
WW2AS2_170604_162.JPG: Thousand Stitch Belt
WW2AS2_170604_171.JPG: Downfall
Endgame Against Japan
WW2AS2_170604_173.JPG: Endgame Against Japan
WW2AS2_170604_194.JPG: Dropping the Bomb
WW2AS2_170604_200.JPG: Bottles Warped by the Nagasaki Blast
WW2AS2_170604_206.JPG: Flash Burned Japanese Vase
WW2AS2_170604_214.JPG: Log Book from the "Enola Gay"
WW2AS2_170604_222.JPG: True Airspeed Computer
Used by Captain Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the "Enola Gay", used during the August 6, 1945 atomic bomb mission over Hiroshima.
WW2AS2_170604_229.JPG: Drawing the Noose
WW2AS2_170604_233.JPG: Firebombing Cities of Japan
WW2AS2_170604_236.JPG: This map, produced after the war, documents the extraordinary damage inflicted by B-29 incendiary attacks. For comparison, each Japanese city is paired with a US city of approximately the same size.
WW2AS2_170604_239.JPG: Bombing Japanese Cities
WW2AS2_170604_243.JPG: Controlling the Skies
WW2AS2_170604_248.JPG: Robert K. Morgan
WW2AS2_170604_251.JPG: Submarine Campaign
WW2AS2_170604_264.JPG: Warning Leaflets Dropped Over Japan
WW2AS2_170604_274.JPG: 509th Composite Group
WW2AS2_170604_283.JPG: Operation Downfall
WW2AS2_170604_288.JPG: Forcing Japan to Surrender
WW2AS2_170604_290.JPG: Hiroshima
WW2AS2_170604_296.JPG: Tokyo
WW2AS2_170604_297.JPG: "It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past -- a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63), Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945
WW2AS2_170604_300.JPG: Surrender
WW2AS2_170604_305.JPG: USS Missouri Scrapbook
WW2AS2_170604_313.JPG: USS Missouri Surrender Card
WW2AS2_170604_318.JPG: Surrender Ceremony Plans
WW2AS2_170604_321.JPG: Victory Flag
First American flag to fly over occupied Japan
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Wikipedia Description: National World War II Museum
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The National World War II Museum, formerly known as the National D-Day Museum, is a museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, at the corner of Andrew Higgins and Magazine Street. It focuses on the United States contribution to victory in World War II, and the Battle of Normandy in particular. It has been designated by the U.S. Congress as "America's National World War II Museum".
Museum Description:
The museum opened its doors to the public on June 6, 2000, the 56th anniversary of D-Day. The museum has a large lobby where aircraft and other items are suspended from the ceiling. Visitors pay admission fees at the desk in the center of the lobby and then visitors' tickets are separated from the ticket stub by veterans of D-Day. Admission prices during the summer of 2005 were marked at $14, with discounts offered to children, students, military members and their families, veterans, and senior citizens. The building is several stories high; elevators are available but the stairs are more accessible and are quicker. Visitors begin their self-guided tour of the museum on the top floor and work their way down toward the ground floor. The museum goes in chronological order; that is, the top floor assesses the political, social, and economic conditions that led up to World War II and D-Day. For example, the museum compares the relative military strengths of major nations entering the war. Later visitors see a model of the beaches of Normandy with the relative positions of the number of aircraft and amphibious vehicles. However, the museum does not solely discuss the invasion; visitors may also view an electronic map of the Pacific Ocean that lights up to illustrate the Allied strategy of island hopping, culminating with nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Visitors to the museum are encouraged to allocate roughly 2 1/2 to 3 hours to tour the m ...More...
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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