A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 during World War II. Two men can be seen on the superstructure, upper center. The mast of the USS Tennessee is beyond the burning West Virginia. (Photo by AP Photo)





A Marine M4A3R3 flame-throwing tank goes into action, along with Marine snipers, as the battle for the possession of Iwo Jima rages on, March 1945. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





Two US Marines of the 4th Marine Division look over Iwo Jima from atop Mt. Suribachui, where, just two days before, the American flag was famously risen, February 25, 1945. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





US Marine watches as Japanese forces are shelled on Iwo Jima, ca. Feb-Mar 1945. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





A Marine flamethrower operator moves forward to assault a Japanese pillbox on Motoyama Airfield, ca. Feb-Mar 1945. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





A wounded Marine, while he waits for the stretcher bearers to come for him, is given a drink of water from the canteen of a buddy while the Marines fight the enemy in rough country. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





Private First Class Rez P. Hester, 7th War Dog Platoon, 25th Regiment, takes a nap while Butch, his war dog, stands guard. Iwo Jima, February 1945. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





Marines rescue a wounded buddy, Tarawa, November 1943. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





A US PBY-5 Catalina flying boat soars over a Pacific island. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





Two Marines take cover in shell hole on Saipain, June, 1944. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





USS LST-388 landing at Normandy Beach, US Army forces making a desperate bid to fight German forces on Utah Beach and marching through Po Valley, June 1944. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





442nd Rct Color Bearers And Guards of the Japanese-American division stand to attention in the town of Bruyeres area in France in November 1944. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





The USS LST-388 lands at Normandy beach in the June of 1944 as the tide finally turns on Hitler’s Germany. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





Soldiers try to attach the balloon to their car, June 1944. (Photo by Jared Enos/Mediadrumworld.com)





US soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division attacking a Japanese blockhouse on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, 1944. The troops began capturing the islands by landing their forces on the beaches. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





An Avenger aircraft from the squadron VT-26, after engine failure and a catapult mishap on board the aircraft carrier USS Bataan CVE-29, on March 13, 1944. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





Spectators from all over the world pick vantage positions on the deck of the USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay, to watch the Japanese surrender ceremony marking the end of World War II, September 1945. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville, an island in Papua New Guinea, taking cover behind an M4 Sherman tank, February 1943. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





US marines huddled on the beaches during the Battle of Tarawa in World War Two, Kiribati, 1943. There were around 4,600 fatalities recorded following the bloody battle. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





Wounded troops lying on stretchers aboard a lighter in Munda Point, New Georgia. There were more than 36 million casualties during the War in the Pacific. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





Soldiers make their way across the barren landscape in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 1944. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





While a patrol moves in from the rear, two United States Marines cover a Japanese sniper hiding in a church, below Shuri Castle on Okinawa, 1945. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





Captured wounded Japanese soldier surrounded by Marines on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. During World War II, it’s estimated that between 19,500 and 50,000 members of the Imperial Japanese military surrendered to the Allies. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)





A U.S. Marine shares his water bottle with a stray kitten found under a burned-out Japanese tank on Tarawa, 1943. (Photo by Royston Leonard/Mediadrumworld)