.50 caliber AA machine gun emplacement and crew early 1944

1st Marine Division Machine Gun Crew in Japanese Bunker

1st Marine Division Men and trucks November 1943

1st Marine War Dog Platoon and 2nd Marine Raiders

1st Parachute Battalion Marines under fire at Koiari

23rd Infantry Division fire 75mm Pack Howitzer M1 at Japanese position during battle for Hill 260 on Bougainville 1944

23rd Infantry Division man 75mm Pack Howitzer M1 during battle for Hill 260 on Bougainville

2nd Raider Battalion and war dogs during a patrol into the interior of Bougainville 3 November 1944

37th Division Flamethrower in Action on Bougainville

37th Division Flamethrower in Action on Bougainville 1944

37th Division Landing Craft Head For Bougainville Beach 8 November 1943

37th Division patrols advance thru Jungle

37th Division soldier throws hand grenade

37th Division Troops Unload Ammo on Bougainville Beachhead

37th Infantry Division Machine Gun Crew February 1944

37th Infantry Divisions Combat Team 148 Lands on Bougainville 1943

3rd Defense Battalion Marines with 40mm Bofors Gun 1944

3rd Division Marines In action on Blue Beach

3rd Marine Division Gun Crew Digs In on Hill 600

3rd Marine Division Machine Gunners on Hill 600

3rd Marine Raider Battalion Demolition Men on Bougainville

3rd Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines Advance through Mud on Numa Numa Trail Bougainville

93rd Infantry Division Patrol on Bougainville 1 May 1944

Armed with two flame throwers, bazooka, rifles and grenades soldiers of the Americal Division advance on Japanese positions on Hill 260 on Bougainville

Assault wave in Higgins boat hitting the Bougainville beach

Attack on Landing Craft during November 1, 1943 Invasion of Bougainville

Beached Landing Craft at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville

Body of sailor on KO'd Landing Barge off Bougainville 1943

Bougainville 1943 Marines Operation Cherry Blossom

Bougainville Beach LVT and truck

Chaplain shows Japanese bullet hole in helmet

Ford GTB Bomb Service Truck hauls 2,000Lb bombs on Bougainville

Gen Geiger and Adm Halsey watch reinforcements land on Bougainville

Gen. Ralph Mitchell Brig. Gen. Field Harris on Bougainville

Hungry Marines Eat Hot Meal after 3 Days of D-Rations on Bougainville 1944

Japanese score direct hit on US oil dump on Bougainville

Jeep Ambulance moves wounded Marines from front on Bougainville

Jeeps on US Seabee Built Marine Drive Hi Way on Bougainville

Landing Craft Headed to Shore of Bougainville 20 November 1943

Landing ships Empress August Bay Bougainville - USS LST-70 in the background

LSTs and Barrage Balloons as 37th Division Lands on Bougainville

LVT-1 carries Marines to front on Bougainville 1943

LVT-1 carries Marines to invasion beach of Bougainville 1 November 1943

Mail Call for Marines of Aviation Ground Unit on Bougainville

Marine 20mm AA Gun on Bougainville 1943

Marine Defence Battalion Mans 90mm AA Gun on Bougainville

Marine directs artillery from field telephone

Marine lays telephone wire

Marine raiders and war dogs vs snipers Bougainville

Marine Raiders in Jungle on Torokina Beach

Marine Raiders return from front line to Bougainville Base

Marine War Dog "Andy" commended for service on Bougainville 1944

Marine War Dog Caesar von Steuben Wounded on Bougainville 1944

Marine with BAR advancing on Bougainville

Marine with captured japanese battle flag on Bougainville

Marine with M1 Rifle on Bougainville

Marines and Landing Barges on Bougainville Beach 1943

Marines and LST Landing Supplies on Bougainville 1944

Marines at Front Line Command Post on Bougainville

Marines baking pies in field oven on Bougainville

Marines Battle Jungle Rest Bougainville Operation Cherry Blossom

Marines Bring Body of Fallen Comrade Ashore on Bougainville

Marines carry supplies up hand Grenade Hill on Bougainville

Marines dig graves to bury their Dead on Bougainville

Marines Drink Coconut Milk on Bougainville

Marines in Landing Craft approaching Empress Augusta Bay Bougainville Beach 1943

Marines Land Landing Craft Beach Bougainville Operation Cherry Blossom

Marines manning 75mm Pack Howitzer 1944

Marines of the 19th Engineers and Navy Seabees break for chow during construction of a road to Evansville 1944

Marines Sailors fight flames as oil dump burns on Bougainville

Marines Searches Japanese Pillbox on Bougainville 1943

Marines unload ammo from LCV onto Bougainville Beach

Marines wading ashore on D-Day at Bougainville

Marines watch as Navy Corpsmen remove the dead and wounded from the pit around a 90mm gun on Puruata Island off Bougainville

Marines with a Special Weapons Battalion on Bougainville operating a gun director, also called an auxiliary predictor

Men of a 2nd Marine Raider Battalion patrol crouch in dense jungle undergrowth during mopping up operations on Cape Torokina 1943

Mountains of empty artillery cases

Patrol takes a break along Numa Numa Trail on Bougainville 1944

Protected by pillboxes Americal Division troops watch dive bombers hit Japanese position across the mouth of the Torokina River 1944

Soldier Fires Bazooka at Japanese Pillbox on Bougainville

Soldier in "Sniper Inn" Foxhole 1944

Soldiers and chained up trucks with trailer muddy road Bougainville 1944

Soldiers of the 23rd Infantry Division manning an M2 60mm light mortar during battle for Hill 260 on Bougainville

Thousands of U.S. Army Troops and equipment land on Bougainville

Troops and dog board assault boat for Bougainville Invasion 1943

Troops of the 23rd Americal Division riding an abandoned Japanese tractor on Bougainville

Troops of the 37th Infantry Division carrying 5-gallon cans of water over 800 yards of mountail trail on Bougainville 1944

US Soldiers Doing Laundry on Bougainville

Wounded Marine Raider gets blood plasma on Bougainville 1943

Wounded US Marines Guard Bougainville Beach