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Did You Know? There are 25,038,459 living veterans; Of which 18,258,382 are war time veterans. WW II Veterans living are 5,032,591. To access more stats from the VA on living veterans by war and era please access the Facts & Stats page from the menu to your left......

NOTE:  ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE IN USA TODAY DEATHS AMONG WWII VETERANS ARE PROJECTED TO PEAK IN 2008,  WHEN 620,000 VETERANS DEATHS ARE PROJECTED.  AVAILABILITY FOR VETERANS WHO REQUEST TO BE BURIED IN NATIONAL CEMETERIES  IS AT SERIOUS RISK.  A SHORTAGE OF HONOR GUARDS AT THESE SERVICES IS ALSO THREATENED DUE TO THE FACT THAT MOST ARE MANNED BY WWII VETERANS.....................................

Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimy with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes." February 1944. 26-G-3394.  Courtesy of National Archives Photographs - World War II Collection...

Photo Credit: A Navy photographer snapped this photograph of The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii Dec. 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. (Courtesy photo)

CASUALTY STATISTICS

DEC. 7,  1941 - DEC. 31,  1946

* THIS INCLUDES ARMY AIR FORCES.

THESE STATISTICS ARE NOT OFFERED TO BE TOTALLY ACCURATE AS MANY SOURCES DIFFER TO SOME DEGREE PLUS POW's AND MIA's ARE NOT FACTORED IN THIS CHART. Source: World Almanac 1992

PHOTO GALLERY

November, 1944: 397th Infantry advances through the HighVosges. NARA PHOTO
June 1944. National Archives Photo. With a canvas tarpaulin for a church and packing cases for an altar, a Navy chaplain holds mass for Marines at Saipan. The service was held in memory of brave buddies who lost their lives in  the initial landings.  Sgt. Steele, June 1944.
Marines of the 4th Division. Iwo Jima.

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, U.S. Third Army commander, pins the Silver Star on Private Ernest A. Jenkins of New York City for his conspicuous gallantry in the liberation of Chateaudun, France...", 10/13/1944. Officer at periscope in control room of submarine. Ca. 1942. 80-G-11258. & AMERICAN PRISONERS ON CORREGIDOR,  PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MAY,  1942.

The Pacific Theater
Natl. Archives Photos

"The crew of the USS SOUTH DAKOTA stands with bowed heads, while Chaplain N. D. Lindner reads the benediction held in honor of fellow shipmates killed in the air action off Guam on June 19, 1944." July 1, 1944.

June/July 1944 "Army reinforcements disembarking from LST's form a graceful curve as they proceed across coral reef toward the beach." Laudansky, Saipan. Natl. Archive Photo.

USS ARIZONA:  DECEMBER 7,   1941.

ARMY B-25 TAKES OFF FROM USS HORNET.   APRIL 1945
US MARINE RAIDERS.  CAPE TOTKINA ON BOUGAINVILLE,  SOLOMON ISLANDS,  JANUARY,  1944.
Gen. MacArthur Photo By: Carl Mydans

Marines of the 5th Division Red Beach 1 Iwo Jima Feb. 19, 1945 NARA Photo
A Water Buffalo, loaded with Marines, churns through the sea bound for beaches of Tinian Island near Guam." July 1944.
Line up of some of women welders including the women's welding champion of Ingalls [Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS]." Spencer Beebe, 1943.

First flag on Guam on boat hook mast. Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam eight minutes after U.S. Marines and Army assault troops landed on the Central Pacific island on July 20, 1944." Batts. 127-N-88073. NARA PHOTO...

"These men have earned the bloody reputation of being skillful jungle fighters. They are U.S. Marine Raiders gathered in front of a Jap dugout on Cape Totkina on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, which they helped to take." January 1944. 80-G-205686. NARA Photo...

1945 Life Photo By: Alfred Eisenstaedt
GI's at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris, France, whoop it up after buying the special edition of the Paris Post, which carried the banner headline, `JAPS QUIT.'" T3c. G. Lempeotis, August 10, 1945.

"Burial at sea for the officers and men of the USS Intrepid (CV-11) who lost their lives when the carrier was hit by Japanese bombs during operations in the Philippines." By Lt. Barrett Gallagher, November 26, 1944. National Archives and Records Administration, General Records of the Department of the Navy.

"American servicemen and women gather in front of 'Rainbow Corner' Red Cross club in Paris to celebrate the unconditional surrender of the Japanese" By McNulty, August 15, 1945. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer.

JAPANESE OCCUPATION SECTION

General Douglas MacArthur (center), accompanied by Lt. Gen. Richard Sutherland, Chief of Staff (left) and Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, Commanding General of the U.S. Eighth Army, stands amidst a crowd shortly after landing at Atsugi Airfield near Tokyo. Photo by army.mil (August 30, 1945)

Directing Traffic - Photo by army.mil August 01, 2007 M.P. Pfc. Louis Leindecker of the American Division of Pittsburgh,
directing traffic in Hachioj, Japan with the aid of Japanese police. (September 15, 1945)

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USS Missouri - Painting by TSgt. Steve Doyle U.S.A.F.

USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (July 4, 2008) The sun sets behind the USS Arizona (BB 39) Memorial as seen from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Kitty Hawk is making a port call to the United States for the first time in nearly 10 years. The ship will participate in Rim of the Pacific 2008 exercise with other units from the U.S., Australia, Chile, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Peru, South Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom. U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class John J. Mike (Released)

WWII POSTER ART

POSTER BY:  DAVID STONE MARTIN,  NARA STILL PHOTO BRANCH OF:  DORIS (DORIE) MILLER AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS,  USS WEST VIRGINIA,   PEARL HARBOR. POSTER BY:  L. WILBUR, TITLED "LONGING".   NARA STILL PHOTO BRANCH

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Franklin D. Roosevelt & President Harry S. Truman

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