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[Nineteen Days of it]

Description: Photograph of Marine Private First Class George C. Miller of Jersey City, New Jersey, lugging his heavy machine gun through the Cape Gloucester mud while en route to a rear rest area.
Date: January 17, 1944
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Up in the Crow's Nest]

Description: Photograph of Marines manning a field howitzer and blasting a Japanese nest in a cave from the precarious edge of a sheer cliff on Tinian. The gun was lashed in this unusual position after parts were carried up to the cliff and assembled on the spot.
Date: August 25, 1944
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Carries On]

Description: Photograph of Lieutenant Colonel R.G. Balance of Champagne, Illinois, of the First Marine Division, resuming his duties as Commander of Pioneer Battalion despite shrapnel wounds received on the Peleliu beach.
Date: 1944-08~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Wreckage]

Description: Photograph of the wreckage of Japanese radio towers destroyed in combat.
Date: April 28, 1945
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Patrol Incident]

Description: Photograph of Marine First Lieutenant R.A. Montgomery of West, Mississippi, kneeling beside a slain Japanese soldier who was killed by the patrol that he was leading during the campaign on Okinawa.
Date: April 23, 1945
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Inch by Inch]

Description: Photograph of First Division Marines crawling on their stomach toward another objective as they battled stubborn resistance on Peleliu.
Date: 1944-08~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Gunners in Action]

Description: Photograph of Marines manning a 37mm field piece fire at Japanese who have taken up positions in ruins of a building foundation on Peleliu.
Date: 1944-08~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[From the Field of Battle]

Description: Photograph of two stretcher bearers carrying a wounded Marine from the front lines at Peleliu to a field dressing station as other Marines prepare to move up to the front.
Date: 1944-08~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Shelling Japanese]

Description: Photograph of a shell case dropping from the breech of a Marine gun after a shell has been hurled at enemy positions on Peleliu.
Date: 1944-08~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Fireworks]

Description: Photograph of a phosphorous grenade exploding a Japanese dugout on the southern Peleliu peninsula.
Date: 1944-08~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Blow Out]

Description: Photograph of Marine demolition men blasting one of the caves of the ridges on Peleliu.
Date: 1944-08~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Artillery Comes Ashore]

Description: Photograph of Amphibious landing craft bringing Marines and artillery ashore during the second day of the assault on Tinian. Ducks (amphibious trucks) carried the artillery inland to their positions and shortly after, crack Marine gunners were hurling shells at the enemy.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Fireworks]

Description: Photograph of Marines watching smoke from a Japanese ammo dump mushroom after an attack by Navy planes supporting the Marines advance.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Tinian Trouble]

Description: Photograph of multiple dead Japanese officers and men. They are scattered on the ground alongside some weapons.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Caught With Their Planes Down]

Description: Photograph of a Marine Curtiss Commando transport plane landing on an airstrip with a cargo of supplies and preparing to evacuate wounded Marines.
Date: July 30, 1944
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Wrecked Radar]

Description: Photograph of Japanese radar equipment on Mount Lasso that was battered by Marine gunfire as they cleared the enemy from the island of Tinian. Several Marines stand beside what is left of the radar equipment.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[A Helping Hand]

Description: Photograph of a wounded Marine being helped back to an aid station by his fellow Marines.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[War Victims]

Description: Photograph of a Japanese laborer carrying his badly burned wife to the Marine Civil Affairs camp.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Plasma on the Move]

Description: Photograph of Navy corpsmen assisting a casualty on the Tinian beach and administrating a plasma injection. The injured man lies on a stretcher surrounded by the corpsmen.
Date: July 25, 1944
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[The End in Sight]

Description: Photograph of a Marine watching tanks and infantry as they mop up the last enemy resistance on the shore below.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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