HERE ARE SOME COLLECTION OF PHOTOS SHOWING AMERICAN WAR DEAD FROM WWII

Most of these photos were taken mere hours after their deaths, and the others taken days after their death. Perhaps after the bodies had been discovered

I have been curious about these photos for a long time, considering most photos showing American War dead were never released for - more than likely - propaganda reasons. I have chosen not to publicly identify these men in the pictures out of respect for their families. However, if you are curious, please private message me regarding which image assuming they are identified.

4th to last picture. I believe that soldier belongs to the 37th Infantry division I think he was KIA on Bougainville I read that somewhere with that picture

The 15th photo is the famous war corespondent Ernie Pyle. He was lost during the Okinawa campaign on the island of Il shima. He was visiting the front riding in a Jeep when he came under machine gun fire and he jumped with the other occupants into a road side ditch



While in the ditch and for some reason he decided to take a look over the top of the ditch and a Japanese machine gun bullet hit him in the head killing him instantly.. if you have ever read any of his books he was a real loss in telling what the war was like to the men in action and to the people back home…

No 10 is of Robert J. Bowman, 21 by Robert Capa during the final days of WWII. Bowman was killed instantly by a sniper’s shot to the forehead, and was described by Capa as “…a very clean, somehow very beautiful death…”. I have a ‘Life’ book on WWII which has this image on the cover.

These pictures really emphasize to me how unceremonious death in combat is. There’s no final words, no beautiful scene, they were there and then they weren’t.

5 he has a knife in his hand. I wonder if he was killed during hand-to-hand combat.

This really sends the message. Military recruitment propaganda like the "Be All You Can Be" infomercial should include such images and videos into their message.

I find it chilling how in picture nine (9) for example there is a laid out deceased Sergeant and other fellow soldiers standing a few feet away, and nobody had the decency to turn his body over and cover his face with his jacket, or take his ammo for example, because I see a bandoleer across his chest and if it's full that's an extra 48 rounds of .30-06. I think the threat has long passed that caused his demise because a photographer took his picture and the other men are standing in the open nonchalantly and not behind cover of the building to their right for instance.

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