My great uncle Willie with his flamethrower and a pipe, Iwo Jima 1945.

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An overwhelmed US Marine is pictured while weeping among ruins during the Battle of Peleliu. September 26th, 1944.

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In WWI, around 500,000 cats served in trenches and on ships—controlling rats, boosting morale, and even acting as early gas detectors. They brought comfort to soldiers in the chaos of war. (Some pics are from WWII)

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Gary Sinise here. For the anniversary of Forrest Gump, I wanted to share more of my favorite Behind-The-Scenes photos. So many wonderful memories. (1994)

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In April of 1945, paratrooper Harry Lorenzo of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion clutches his Thompson submachine gun and his puppy “Kaput” near Katharinenberg, Germany. (1945)

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Marines in Korea demonstrating new body armor (1952)

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US Marine and combat cameraman Norman Hatch gives a drink of water to a kitten who was hiding under a destroyed Japanese tank during the battle of Tarawa , Gilbert Islands - 23rd Nov 1943

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In WWI, around 500,000 cats served in trenches and on ships—controlling rats, boosting morale, and even acting as early gas detectors. They brought comfort to soldiers in the chaos of war. (Some pics are from WWII)

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First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez (US Marine Corps) leads his platoon over the seawall during the Inchon Landings, September 1950. An iconic captured moment of the Korean War, Lopez would die in action just minutes later.

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An American GI treating a wounded German soldier in WW2 (1940s).

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Marine approaches a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima, March 16, 1945. The soldier had been buried for 36 hours in a shell hole, pretending to be dead, with a live grenade just inches from his hand.

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“Accepting her fate as an orphan of war, ‘Miss Hap’ a two-week-old Korean kitten, chows down on canned milk, piped to her by medicine dropper with the help of Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor …(1953)[korea]

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One month after D-Day, two soldiers in the 147th Infantry use a flamethrower to clear a tunnel position on Iwo Jima; hundreds of Japanese soldiers remained underground after the Marines withdrew (1945)