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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

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.

Post route map of the territory of Hawaii, Samoan Islands and the Island of Guam : showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the1st of October, 1914 / published by order of Postmaster General A.S. Burleson

F. R. Fosberg field notebook #78, begin with # 47482, ends with # 47771, start Korror, Palau Is

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