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36,461 Pacific War Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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ww2 mitchell b-25 medium bombers flying in v-formation - pacific war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

WW2 Mitchell B-25 Medium Bombers flying in V-Formation

These headlines were from a New York newspaper telling of the start of the American-Japanese war, December 7, 1941.

New York Journal American on United States Declaring War on Japan

Bombers drop hundreds of incendiary bombs on Yokohama, Japan, during an air raid on May 29, 1945. | Location: over Yokohama, Japan.

B-29s Bombing Yokohama

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl...

USA-Japan: Headline of the San Antonio Express (Texas) on 8 December, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

hiroshima after bomb - pacific war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

HIROSHIMA AFTER BOMB

An artist's impression of the Battle of Midway, during World War II, June 1942.

Battle Of Midway In World War II

Thick smoke billows up from stricken American warships along battleship row during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii,...

Smoke Pours From Battleships At Pearl Harbor

These headlines were from a New York newspaper telling of the start of the American-Japanese war, December 7, 1941.

PM Daily on United States Backing War Against Japanese

155mm Howitzer M1 of the 5th Marine Division, V Amphibious Corps, United States Marine Corps, fires on positions held by the 109th Division of the...

World War Two: The Pacific 1945

Anti-Japanese propaganda poster 'This is the enemy' 1942.

This is the enemy.

These headlines were from a New York newspaper telling of the start of the American-Japanese war, December 7, 1941.

New York Herald Tribune Headlines Japan Declaring War

Detainee woman and children in their quarters at the Santa Anita Assembly Center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California, 1942. The camp is a...

Japanese American Detainees

Members of the British forces in Burma prepare to search a village for Japanese soldiers.

The first draft of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's proposed message to the US Congress, with his handwritten corrections, urging a declaration...

Roosevelt's Message To Congress

Headshot portrait of Naval Mess Attendant 3rd Class Doris 'Dorie' Miller, wearing a Navy Cross pinned to his sailor's uniform, under the headline,...

Women fire fighters during a training exercise at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, during World War II, circa 1941. From left to right, they are...

The Nitta Maru was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1938-1940 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co....

Japan: Advertising poster for the Japan Mail Steamship Company (1940). 'Three new sister ships' were launched just before the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific

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WWII M4 Sherman Tank Crew on D Day

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Peace Park memorial, Hiroshima

Aerial view of a B-29 flying over Japanese fields.

B-29 Flying Over Japan's Countryside

Flight of Vought F4U-1A/D Corsair single engined fighter-bomber ground attack aircraft from Marine Fighter Squadron 224 , Marine Aircraft Group 13 of...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

Silhouette view of a United States Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bomber of Bombing Squadron 5 from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown flying over...

World War Two Pacific 1943

uss arizona burning after the japanese attack on pearl harbor. - pacific war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

USS Arizona burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Japanese troops marching past a British post.

Japanese Troops

Three US Marines from the 1st Battalion, 24th US Marines, 4th Marine Division operate a M2 Browning 50 caliber machine gun upon positions and units...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

United States Navy Grumman TBF-1C Avenger carrier-based torpedo bomber surveys damaged aircraft and instillations burning following an attack on the...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

Photographic print of The Japanese troops in Nanking after the city's conquest. Dated 1937.

The Japanese troops in Nanking after the city's conquest.

Japanese troops marching from their base camp.

The results of the Pearl Harbour attack by the Japanese at Wheeler Field Barracks with artillery being pulled from the water.

Troops advance on Bougainville Island against the Japanese occupation troops.

Japanese troops present arms to the 'Rising Sun' as they amass on the Indochina Burmese border.

Japanese Troops

the cloud landscape - pacific war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

The cloud landscape

Japanese troops advancing through burning oil fields, set alight by retreating American forces, Philippines, 1942.

Japanese In The Philippines

Soldiers Riding a Tank While Trying to Shelter from the Rain.

Soldiers Riding a Tank While Trying to Shelter from the Rain

Two marine divisions landed at Iwo Jima on 15th February 1945. By 26th March the island had been definitively conquered.

Two marine divisions landed at Iwo Jima on 15th February 1945

An F6F passes over the countryside of Kakogawa, Japan.

American Bomber Flying Over Countryside

Military tank named "Jungle Jim" crashes through what's left of the jungle on Namur, during the Battle of the Marshall Islands in World War II.

Military Tank During World War II

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan , advocated Japan's unconditional surrender to end World War II.

Emperor Hirohito

American medium tanks reach the beach at Kwajalein Island during World War II, February 2, 1944. One tank has the number 19 and the word Lightning...

Medium Tanks On Kwajalein Beach

The White House announced that Japanese planes attacked Hawaii. Soon after as shown here, U. S. Medium bombers fly over diamond Head and beautiful...

United States Military Aircraft Responding to Pearl Harbor Attack

Minute pin-points on the map but important prizes in the Pacific war are the thousands of islands between Hawaii and the China coast. Map shows the...

Map of Islands Between Hawaii and China

Terror came to Tokyo in the last weeks of 1944. First, swarms of giant B-29 bombers, roaring over from Saipan, rocked Japan's capital with tons of...

Aerial View Of Tokyo

In the few short months since Pearl Harbor, the Chrysler plant in Detroit is turning out tanks by the hundreds day and night, Detroit, Michigan, June...

Chrysler Tank Plant

Japanese Imperial Army tank proceeds with falling palm trees toward Singapore circa 1942 in Malaysia.

Japanese Imperial Army Marching Toward Singapore

Japanese emerges from hiding to surrender to an American soldier.

Infantrymen following a tank in its cover during the mopping up operations on Bougainville, Solomon Islands.

On Leyte Island, members of the crew of a tank take a breather from the confines of its interior and scan the horizon for Japanese patrols to rout....

Three Japanese soldiers emerge from their hiding places behind huge stones and surrender to United States forces after Japan's defeat in the battle...

Japanese Surrender

Sherman medium tank carrying marksmen rolls inland from Humboldt Bay, clearing a path through the jungle for the infantry after a three-week 500-ton...

US Sherman Tank

Soldier guarding American planes in China.

Guarding Planes

The American destroyer USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, home of the American Pacific Fleet during World War II, 7th...

Destroyer Explodes

An American infantryman from Company F from the 129th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division of XIV Corps, United States Army, fires his M1 Garand...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

The War In The Far East: The Burma Campaign 1941-1945, The Battle of Imphal-Kohima March An M3 Lee tank crosses a river north of Imphal to meet the...

The War In The Far East: The Burma Campaign 1941-1945

Tank unit waiting for the military parade in 1944 in Tokyo, Japan.

Tank Unit Before The Military Parade In Tokyo

Attack in the Philippines print. World War II, the Philippines, 20th century.

U.S. attack in the Philippines

The corpses of U.S. Marines lie on the beach where they fell in battle with Imperial Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Tarawa, Gilbert Islands,...

USA/Japan: The corpses of U.S. Marines lie on the beach where they fell in battle with Imperial Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, November 20 to November 23, 1943

Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 165th Infantry Regiment from the United States Army's 27th Infantry Division landing at Yellow Beach on Butaritari Island...

World War Two: The Pacific 1943

Marines Storming Beach during Battle of Tarawa, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands, November 1943.

US Marines Storming Beach during Battle of Tarawa, Tarawa Atoll

After being ordered to withdraw to Australia in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines, as he had promised the Philippine people....

General MacArthur returns to the Philippines.

In the waist of a Marine bomber, Second Lieutenant Minoru Wada, a Japanese Army transport officer, who was captured on the Island of Mindanao, helps...

Japanese Defector

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