Crewmen lift Kenneth Bratton out of the turret of a Navy torpedo plane on the USS SARATOGA after an air raid on Rabaul. November 1943

In an underground surgery room behind the front lines on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, an American Army doctor operates on a U.S. soldier wounded by a Japanese sniper. December 13, 1943

Marine Raiders, with a reputation as lethal jungle fighters, pose in front of a Japanese dugout they took on Cape Totkina on Bougainville, Solomon Islands. January 1944

Marine machine gunners repel a Japanese counter-attack in the jungle of Cape Gloucester. January 1944

Two LSTs open their giant jaws on Leyte Island as soldiers build sandbag piers out to the ramps to speed up unloading operations. 1944