83 years ago today, salvage operation of battleship USS Oklahoma begins. ⚓️

Oklahoma capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The righting and refloating of the capsized battleship was the largest of the Pearl Harbor salvage jobs, and the most difficult. 🇺🇸

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Today, we have officially been without legendary Easy Company SSgt. Bill Guarnere for twelve years. 🪖

William “Bill” Guarnere
4/28/1923-3/8/2014

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81 years ago today, Captain Dick Winters of 506th PIR, US 101st Airborne Division, is promoted to the rank of major at Haguenau, France. 🪖

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81 years ago today, Navy Ensign Jane Kendeigh treats wounded Marines & sailors, as the first naval flight nurse to fly to an active combat zone. 🇺🇸

After 15 days, Ensign Kendeigh and her team were able to rescue and attend to 2,393 Marines & sailors.⚓️

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RIP to Easy Company legend Bill Guarnere who passed 12 years ago today. 🇺🇸

William “Bill” Guarnere
4/28/1923-3/8/2014

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In 1944, Sally Wadsworth works on the fuselage of a P-38 Lightning at her job with Lockheed Martin in California. ✈️

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In March of 1945, soldiers of the 14th Armored Division push through Oberlauterbach, Bas-Rhin department in north-eastern France. 🪖

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Marines of the 5th Marine Division on their way to Iwo Jima. 🇺🇸

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Even with its wartime damage, the Cologne Cathedral has a great deal of reverence to it as US soldiers hold mass in March of 1945. 🪖

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After fighting its way from the beaches of Normandy through Western Europe, the men of the 5th Armored Division were ready for a crack at the capital of the Reich as they rolled into Pulheim, Germany in March of 1945. 🪖

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On this day in 1847, three American infantry divisions land at Veracruz, Mexico. It's the United States military's first large-scale amphibious assault. The city falls after a 20-day siege.

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On this day in 1862, naval warfare enters the modern era as the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack) do battle off Hampton Roads. It's history's first clash between steel warships.

The legendary photographer Robert Capa at an airfield in France just before taking part in a combat jump with the 17th Airborne Division across the Rhine and into Germany. 🪂

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Hard to not look like a boss with a Browning M1919 machine gun mounted on your jeep and a destroyed Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank in the background. 🪖

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In March of 1945, Tech 5 Willie Blow of the 784th Tank Battalion during a rest and refit period in the Venlo area of the Netherlands. 🪖

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Seven Texans of the 96th Infantry Division’s 763rd Tank Battalion review some of the tactics that they used to help defeat the Japanese on Okinawa as they prepare to invade the Japanese mainland. 🪖

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In 1945, wounded Marines are treated at an aid station on Iwo Jima. 🪖

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A Marine feeds his pet lamb during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. 🪖

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81 years ago today, Sgt. Albert Osborne of the 382nd Air Service Group's Sheet Metal Shop patches the flak holes on the nose of a Curtiss C-46. ✈️

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In March of 1945, an M3A1 Halftrack named with the 9th Armored Division named “Bitching Pals” moves through the heavily-mined town of Engers, Germany. 🪖

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After their river crossing in March of 1945, soldiers of the 5th Infantry Division pursue the fleeing enemy as they advance into Frankfurt, Germany. 🪖

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