National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures

A Landing Vehicle Tracked (Armored)(Mark 1), LVT(A)-1 left after the Battle of Peleliu during World War Two on the island of Peleliu. Photograph taken as part of Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, 1ST Marine Air Wing, Okinawa, Japan, and 3rd Marines 7th Battalion, 29 Palms, California, participated in KOA THUNDER on the island of Guam from July 9 to July 14. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the Marine Corps ability to deploy in the South Pacific from places other than Okinawa, Japan

Bomber Crews Arriving At Funafuti Are Taken To Their Quarters In Jeeps And Trailers. (U.S. Air Force Number 121707AC)

An aerial photograph of Marbo Annex on the island of Guam taken from a CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter from HMH-463, Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. Marbo Annex was used as a landing zone during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Hawaii, 1ST Marine Air Wing, Okinawa, Japan, and 3rd Marines 7th Battalion, 29 Palms, California, participated in KOA THUNDER on the island of Guam from July 9 to July 14. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the Marine Corps' ability to deploy in the South Pacific from places other than Okinawa, Japan

US Army Lieutenant General William M. Steele, Commanding General US Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, meets with troops operating at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during Operation PACIFIC HAVEN. The operation, a joint humanitarian effort conducted by the US military, entails the evacuation of over 2,100 Kurds (not shown) from northern Iraq to avoid retaliation from Iraq for working with the US government and international humanitarian agencies. The Kurds will be housed at Andersen AFB, while they go through the immigration process for residence in the United States

FEMA generators stand ready for transport back to FEMA warehouses in Hawaii, Guam, and California after months of use on the island of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. These generators were used for emergency power at 96 key facilities throughout the Island immediately after Typhoon Soudelor struck the island in August.

Lance Corporal (LCpl) Micheal Schrum, A-gunner, and LCpl Kenneth Konopka, gunner, from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, India Company, set up M224 60mm morters in preperation for an airfield seizure during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. KOA THUNDER is an exercise involving elements of 1ST Marine Air Wing (MAW), and 3rd Marine Division, where Marines conduct an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE). The Aviation Support Element (ASE) from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, will be tested on command and control of several different missions, to include Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personal (TRAP), airfield seizures, and a Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO)

Lance Corporal Drue N. McIver and Corporal Kenny Carlyle, from HMH-463 Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, put a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter that was disassembled so it could be transported to Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, back together as part of Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001 at Anderson Air Force Base. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, 1ST Marine Air Wing, Okinawa, Japan, and 3rd Marines 7th Battalion 29 Palms, California, participated in KOA THUNDER on the island of Guam from July 9 to July 14. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the Marine Corps' ability to deploy in the South Pacific from places other than Okinawa, Japan

SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Curtis Towne, USAF, a crew member from the USN EP-3 Aries II aircraft involved in the March 31st accident with a Chinese F-8 aircraft, receives a lay as he is welcomed at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. The crew arrived at Hickam AFB, HI from Anderson AB, Guam on board an USAF C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, as part of Operation VALIANT RETURN. The EP-3 crew members were detained in China for 17 days prior to being released

STS108-717-087 - STS-108 - Earth observations taken during STS-108

An aerial portside silhouette of the US Navy (USN) Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier USS RANGER (CV 61), with her Sailors manning the rails and aircraft of the Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) on her deck, as she arrives at Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (HI)

Hawaii - Honolulu

A display of a recent finding of bones by the Army Central Identification Laboratory Hawaii is laid out on white covered tables. A staff member explains them to a small group including Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall and Medal of Honor recipient, Red Erwin. The are here for the 50th anniversary commemoration of World War II