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Michael (Mihael) Gantman at Vladivostok
Photograph of four Officers and a soldier. The photograph was taken after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Michael Gantman stands 5th from the left. He was a Senior Lieutenant in the Artillery Unit, who joined the army at 14 in 1931 by lying about…
Kamikaze Headband or Body Scarf
Cloth banner with the flag of Japan (red sun) flanked by two Japanese characters. The kanji 海 means "ocean" (sea) and the kanji 軍 means "a force," hence "Navy."
Marines Doing Laundry in the Pacific - Okinawa Japan, 1945
Corporal William J Batterton (US Marine Corps) doing laundry. Our laundry was made of a 55 gallon drum and a bicycle. When we peddled the bike, the drum would go around to clean the cloths. To rinse the cloths, we emptied the drum, refilled the drum,…
Gasoline Purchase Permit, 1944
Gasoline Purchase Permit of three gallons of gasoline.
9th Air Force Patch
This patch signifies a membership to the 9th Air Force division in the United States Air Forces.
Army Service Forces Patch
This is an Army Service Forces patch that army men would wear on their uniforms to show that they belonged to the Army Service Force division. This patch belonged to army veteran Lonnie Garrison.
Sergeant John Atwood, Battle of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, 1944.
Photo taken by a member of US Marine Corps Air Warning Squadron 1, from Miramar, CA. AWS-1 was an aviation command and control squadron tasked to provide aerial surveillance and early warning during amphibious assaults.
Piece of Parachute
This was a piece of parachute preserved by WWII veteran Robert Ranger. There is a small hole in the parachute that is believed by the family to be a bullet hole caused by a tracer bullet when Ranger was parachuting in Normandy.
Mount Sirubachi on the Island of Iwo Jima, Japan
Picture taken by Albert Buff of US Marine Air Warning Squadron-1 in 1945.
The Sun, Baltimore Sunday Newspaper
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