National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures

Time Out to Remember

A Formation Of Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" Roars Toward Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Where They Will Strike Japanese Installations On The Tiny Islands Halfway Between Saipan And The Japanese Homeland. 21 October 1944. (U.S. Air Force Number 70513AC)

Marines of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU) check their equipment aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) while waiting to board a helicopter during Operation Sharp Edge. The Marines will be flown to the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia, to augment security and evacuate U.S. and foreign nationals from the fighting between government and rebel forces

A crewman aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) during exercise Ocean Venture '81

The amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LPH-2), lies tied up at the naval station

A WC-130 Hercules aircraft from the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron on a mission to monitor and relay vital information on a typhoon to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)

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

Mrs. Lani McCool, wife of the late Columbia space shuttle Astronaut Commander (CDR) William McCool, is followed by two of her sons during the renaming ceremony of the Department of Defense Education Agencys (DODEA) Guam South Elementary and Middle School in the commanders honor

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Mechanics work on an EA6B Prowler from the Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2) at Marine Corps Air Station, Iwakuni, Japan in support of Exercise COPE NORTH 2002, on Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam