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| US M43 Howitzer Motor Carriage. |
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| USMC rocket launchers pound the Japanese on Saipan, circa mid-1944. The trucks are IH M-2-4 one-ton 4x4 vehicles. |
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| US T45 Multiple Rocket Launcher mounted on the Truck, 1-ton, 4x4 (International) manned by Marines on Iwo Jima. |
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| From launching platforms mounted on US IH M-2-4 1-ton 4x4 trucks, Marine crews fire a hail of rockets at Japanese positions on a Saipan ridge, 24 June 1944. Note the Leathernecks crouched over the release controls at the forward end of the trucks. The accuracy of this weapon has been greatly improved and it is now used in all war theaters. These were the first pictures to be released showing Marines using land based rockets in the Pacific theater. |
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| US T19 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriages passing the reviewing stand during a combined French and American parade on the occasion of Moslem Holiday Festival. General Nogues and Major General George S. Patton, Jr., reviewing officers, Rabat, French Morocco 18 December 1942. |
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| US 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19. |
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| US 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19. This view shows the rearward placement of the half-track's fuel tanks. Details of the howitzer mount can be seen, along with the .50 cal. pedestal mount in the rear of the vehicle. The right-angled corners of the fighting compartment are also obvious. |
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| Rear view of mount with gun installed in US 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19 pilot, Aberdeen Proving Ground, 27 November 1941. |
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| US 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19. Crew positions are show here mounted (left) and ready for action (right). |
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| US 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19. The howitzer mount T2 was standardized as the mount M3. |
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| US 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19. |
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| Production US T23 Heavy Tank with cast turret for 76mm M1A1 gun, electrical transmission, and vertical volute spring suspension. The T23 turret was designed to be interchangeable with the turret ring of the M4 Medium Tank. |
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| US LVT helping LCVP off the beach. |
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| US LVT(A)-4 (Landing Vehicle, Tracked) with 37mm gun turret, Okinawa, 1945 |
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| August 29, 1942: After landing in force, U.S. Marines pause on the beach of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands before advancing inland against the Japanese during World War II. |
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| US Heavy Tank T26E1. |
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| US Heavy Tank T26E3. |
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| US 155mm Gun Motor Carriage M40. |
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| US M40 155mm Gun Motor Carriage. |
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| US T1E4 Light Tank. |
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| US T19 Howitzer Motor Carriage. |
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| US Medium Tank T23. |
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| US M40 Gun Motor Carriage. |
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| US M40 Gun Motor Carriage. |
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| Chevy built 3,800 T-17 Staghound armored cars in Flint, Michigan, most with the 37mm cannons shown here, between October 1942 and April 1944. |
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| American 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19 (W-403610), “Cathy.” |
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| American T19 Howitzer Motor Carriage with trailer. |
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| A line-up of T19 HMCs of the US 9th Field Artillery at Newport News, Virginia, 20 October 1942. These units were part of Task Force A, en route to North Africa. |
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| Front view of American 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19. |
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| Rear view of American 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T19. |
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| American Medium Tank T25E1. |
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| American Light Tank T2. |
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| American Light Tank T2. |
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| American Light Tank T2 (Modified). |
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| American Light Tank T2E1. |
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| American solider operating a searchlight, 1941. |
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| American soldiers cleaning an anti-aircraft searchlight, circa 1941-42. |
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