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U.S. Marines conducting amphibious landing exercises.
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U.S. Marine Corps C-12W Huron aircraft.
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U.S. Marines engaging in cold-weather training, Aleutian Islands, southwestern Alaska.
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U.S. Marines in training, Parris Island, South Carolina.
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A U.S. Marine Corps officer undergoing a water survival training program in 2013.
Pfc. Tyler Main—U.S. Marine Corps/U.S. Department of Defense
Lewis B. (“Chesty”) Puller cutting the United States Marine Corps birthday cake,...
U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives, Washington, D.C. (74248048)
A Marine with fixed bayonet leads others around a barbed wire obstacle on the beach...
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Henry Bake and George Kirk, Navajo (self-name Diné) code talkers, December 1943.
U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives and Records Administration
Men and armor of the U.S. 1st Marine Division during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir,...
Photo by Corporal Peter McDonald/U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Marines wading ashore near Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam, April 1965.
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Marines of the U.S. 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in the Saudi desert following...
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Marines searching for snipers in a residential neighborhood of Mogadishu, Somalia,...
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U.S. Marines battling with insurgents while searching a house in Fallujah, Iraq,...
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U.S. Marines advancing against Japanese positions on Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944.
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Aftermath of the bloody invasion of Tarawa by U.S. Marines, November 1943.
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U.S. Marines aboard an amphibious assault vehicle during a training exercise in the...
Casey H. Kyhl—U.S. Navy photo/Department of Defense (090708-N-5538K-109)
U.S. Marines coming ashore under Japanese fire on Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944.
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U.S. Marines disembarking from an amphibious assault vehicle during training exercises...
Jane West/U.S. Navy photo (040718-N-5055W-066)
U.S. Marines battling for control of a ridge near Naha, Okinawa, May 1945.
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Men of the 7th Regiment, U.S. 1st Marine Division, during the advance toward the...
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Men of the 7th Regiment, U.S. 1st Marine Division, wearing and carrying cold weather...
U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives and Records Administration
A U.S. Marine camp at Hagaru-ri, North Korea, during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir,...
Photo by Sgt. Frank C. Kerr/U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives and Records Administration
Men of the 5th and 7th regiments, U.S. 1st Marine Division, receiving an order to...
Sgt. Frank C. Kerr/U.S. Marine Corps
Elements of U.S. 1st Marine Division marching along the main supply route south of...
Photo by Sgt. Frank C. Kerr/U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives and Records Administration
U.S. Marines on the beach of Namur Islet, Kwajalein Atoll, the first of the Marshall...
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U.S. Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, in February...
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U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels landing supplies on the Marine beachhead at Iwo...
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U.S. Marines moving supplies and weapons during the battle for Cape Gloucester, New...
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Marines shelling Japanese positions on Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island,...
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U.S. Marines surveying the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers after the Battle of the...
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U.S. Marines taking a Japanese prisoner in the Marshall Islands.
U.S. Department of Defense
Injured U.S. Marines being treated at an aid station on Iwo Jima, 1945.
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Marine Corps reinforcements arriving on Guadalcanal, November 1942.
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A U.S. Marine with an M249 squad automatic weapon during the Persian Gulf War, 1991.
Sgt. Brad Mitzelfelt, USMC/U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Marines firing an M198 medium howitzer near Baghdad, December 2006.
Michael Q. Retana/U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. marines wading through a marsh during the Vietnam War, November 1965.
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World War II recruitment poster for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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First page of Executive Order 9981, signed by U.S. Pres. Harry Truman, July 26, 1948....
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Second page of Executive Order 9981, signed by U.S. Pres. Harry Truman, July 26,...
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