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WWII Remembered { 25 images } Created 7 Jul 2019

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  • Airborne veterans D.L. Reyman, at center, and Elsworth Harger, flashing a victory sign, march into Ste. M`ere-Eglise after they parachuted in at the outskirts of town during ceremonies for the 50th Anniversary of D-Day on June 5th 1994
    Veterans March
  • French school children rush the derelict remains of the big guns along the coast of Normandy, France on the 50th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1994.
    Bunker
  • Fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
    WWII Remembered
  • Art Williams holds a flag recovered from a dead pilot in a downed Japanese bomber after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Williams was a machinist mate 1st class on the USS Vestal. The repair ship was docked on the outboard side of the USS Arizona which was ripped by a hugh explosion during the attack on December 7, 1941.
    Art Williams
  • Frank Nolan was fired upon by an attacking Japanese warplane during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On that day, Nolan was a seaman 2nd class assigned to the USS Pelias, a submarine tender docked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
    Frank Nolan
  • Jesse Dunnagan waded through oil and dead bodies to recover a scrapbook from his locker inside the USS California after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dunnagan was a seaman first class assigned as a gunner on the battleship docked at the head of "Battleship Row," facing the harbor and the incoming warplanes on December 7, 1941.
    Jesse Dunnagan
  • Clyde Combs was a seaman first class on the  Battleship USS Arizona. In the most devastating blow of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese bomb destroyed the battleship and killed 1,177 of the 1,375 men aboard on December 7, 1941.
    Clyde Combs
  • Pearl Harbor Veterans from South Florida, march on parade in Oahu, Hawaii on December 6th, 1991, for the 50th anniversary of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
    WWII Veterans Parade
  • Al Diaz/Herald Staff--A large mural of the battleship Arizona in its heyday forms a backdrop for visitors to the Arizona Memorial Visitors Center in Hawaii
    USS Arizona
  • Raising the flag at the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor on the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack.
    USS Arizona Memorial
  • In Memory: Marble wall in Arizona Memorial's Shrine Room lists the crewmen killed on Dec. 7th 1941.
    Gallant Men
  • Decades later, the target of Japan's surprise raid remains a profoundly moving place. A wreath in memory of those who died, floats in the water at the site of the Arizona memorial. To this day, oil seeps to the surface from the sunken Arizona battleship at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
    Oil
  • Pearl Harbor survivor, Gerald Glaubitz salutes an unknown soldier at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Hawaii on the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack.
    Salute
  • Pearl Harbor memorial service 50th anniversary. "It gets me deep down" says Pearl Harbor survivor, Hazelett Villa of Lauderdale Lakes, as President Bush lays a wreath at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu during the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
    Memorial Service
  • George Treano places his arm on the tombstone of a friend laid to rest at Normandy American Cemetery in Normandy, France on the 50th Anniversary of the allied invasion known as D-Day in 1994. His son Robert said, he's never seen his father cry until that day.
    Normandy American Cemetery
  • A D-Day veteran checks out an M2 Browning 50 caliber machine gun mounted on a WWII vintage jeep at Normandy. The American GI re-enactor at right is German.
    50 Caliber Machine Gun
  • French shop owner, Philippe Dubourg,  in Ste. Marie-du-Mont with commemorative display for the 50th Anniversary of the allied invasion of France on D-Day.
    Normandy Shop Owner
  • D-Day veteran, William A. Headley, photographs the commemorative ceremonies at Omaha Beach for the 50th Anniversary of the allied landing during World War II.
    William A. Headley
  • On June 3, 1994, a veteran of the US Armies 29th Infantry Division, carries bags of sand taken from Omaha Beach, Normandy, France on the 50th Anniv. of D-Day.
    Omaha Beach Sand
  • French re-enactors of the US Armies, 29th Infantry Division, march onto Omaha Beach, Normandy France, during ceremonies for the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
    Troops
  • Walter Schlecht , 73,  sits in a gun turret at the nose of a B-17 bomber on display at Weeks Air Museum at Tamiami Airport, Miami..Schlecht flew 35 missions over Germany during WWII as a B-17 pilot.
    Nose Gunner
  • Nicolas Lecointe, a French boy, sits on a Sherman tank while visiting an encampment of vintage vehicles along the Normandy Coast . The 1944-94 Overlord Jubilee rally was part of the 50th Anniversary of the D-Day landings.
    Sherman Tank
  • Jason Hidalgo, 11, talks with Tuskegee airman Eldridge Williams at Weeks museum after viewing the HBO drama Tuskegee Airmen. Tamiami Airport, Miami
    Tuskeegee
  • Charles Donald Albury, co-pilot of the Bockscar. The United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber dropped the Fat Man nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Japan, that ended WWII. "I saw the flash," said retiree Don Albury, 'I thought, "My God" '.
    Co-pilot Charles Donald Albury
  • World War II Remembered