National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures

A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from HMH-463 Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, lands on the island of Peleliu as part of Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, 1ST Marine Air Wing (MAW), 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

STS111-367-008 - STS-111 - Earth Observations taken during mission STS-111 UF-2.

STS106-720-082 - STS-106 - Earth observation views taken from Atlantis during STS-106

Onboard the US Navy (USN) Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser (Aegis) USS COWPENS (CG 63), reflected in the "Big Eyes" are the Russian Federation Navy Dubna Class, Replenishment Tanker, PECHENGA and the USN Guided Missile Cruiser (Aegis) USS CHOSIN (CG 65), underway in the Pacific Ocean, during the opening phases of a joint US-Russian Naval Exercise. A Russian Federation Navy vessel made the first visit to the US Territory of Guam in order to participate in a joint humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise

A US Air Force (USAF) Contractor for the Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), 36th Wing, Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam (GU), takes pictures and evaluates a test of the High Expansion (HI-EX) foam system used for fire protection inside aircraft hangars. The Jet Ex foam produced by the Ansul Corporation covers the hangar up to twelve feet high preventing the spread of fire

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Palau_6-7-9-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Palau Islands, Republic of Palau [48-DPA-SOI_K_Palau_6-7-9-07__DI12674.JPG]

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Devil Dogs Take A Tubbing On The Way To Guam

Squadron Leaders B.S. Kanwar, (left), Indian Air Force, and Shaheed Al-Mamun, Bangladesh Air Force, discuss flightline activities at Andersen AFB, Guam during PACIFIC AIRLIFT RALLY 2001. PACIFIC AIRLIFT RALLY (PAR) is a PACAF-sponsored Military Airlift symposium for countries in the pacific region. PAR, held every two years and hosted by a pacific nation, this year Guam is the host nation with the symposium staging out of Andersen AFB. The symposium includes informational seminars with area of expertise briefings, a Command Post Exercise (CPX) which addresses military airlift support to a humanitarian airlift/disaster relief scenario, and a concurrent flying training program that builds...

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World War II – Marshall Islands

In preparation for next year's observation of the 50th anniversary of Guam's World War Two liberation, Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 (NMCB-3) clear a historic area at Orote Point, Naval Station Guam. The rock staircase was built near Sumay by Japanese prisoners of war in 1944-46 after American forces had recaptured the island in July of 1944. The prisoners dedicated the stairway to the Emperor of Imperial Japan Hirohito