Captain J.W. Finley supports himself between two M38 Jeep vehicles after suffering severe neck and facial shrapnel wounds from an exploding Chinese grenade.
Captain Finley of Hazelhurst, Ga., was assigned to Company F, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He resolutely refused to leave his duty until he finished directing first aid treatment and evacuation of wounded men of his company. A hero to be sure - Captain Finley retired a Colonel in the U.S. Army and served three tours in Korea, a tour in Vietnam, as well as duty in Japan, Turkey and Germany.
Image taken on February 22, 1951.
Image courtesy of the U.S. Army Korea Media Center at: imcom.korea.army.mil
This image is part of the Creative Commons and is cleared for public release. This image is generally considered in the public domain. Not for commercial use.
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Showing posts with label Jeep Hero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeep Hero. Show all posts
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Jeep 4x4 helping evacuate wounded
Wounded taken aboard LST on D-Day.
Loading the wounded on a beached LST for transport to medical facilities in England. The wounded arrived from fighting inland on Jeep 4x4s.
Alexander P. Russo #75
Ink wash, June 1944
88-198-BW
Image courtesty of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Loading the wounded on a beached LST for transport to medical facilities in England. The wounded arrived from fighting inland on Jeep 4x4s.
Alexander P. Russo #75
Ink wash, June 1944
88-198-BW
Image courtesty of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Generals in a Jeep M38
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur,
Commander in Chief, Far East Command
Makes a Jeep Tour of Inchon port facilities on 16 September 1950, soon after the city was captured by U.S. forces.
Seated immediately behind him are Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Commanding General, First Marine Division, (left center) and Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, Commander, Joint Task Force Seven, (at right).
Photo #: 80-G-421945. Uploaded to Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Commander in Chief, Far East Command
Makes a Jeep Tour of Inchon port facilities on 16 September 1950, soon after the city was captured by U.S. forces.
Seated immediately behind him are Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Commanding General, First Marine Division, (left center) and Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, Commander, Joint Task Force Seven, (at right).
Photo #: 80-G-421945. Uploaded to Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Jacklyn Lucas Medal of Honor in Jeep
Private first Class Jacklyn H. Lewis of the U.S. Marine Corps - was awarded the Medal of Honor for pulling two grenades under his body to protect his fellow soldiers.
Read more of his exploits at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacklyn_H._Lucas
Jacklyn waves from the back seat of a Willys MB Jeep 4x4 as he leaves LaGuardia Airport for Nimitz Day celebrations in New York City, New York on 9 October 1945.
Photo #: NH 103870.
Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Read more of his exploits at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacklyn_H._Lucas
Jacklyn waves from the back seat of a Willys MB Jeep 4x4 as he leaves LaGuardia Airport for Nimitz Day celebrations in New York City, New York on 9 October 1945.
Photo #: NH 103870.
Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Jeep 4x4 carrying casualties - Normandy 1944
Jeep 4x4 at Normandy Invasion, 1944
A Jeep 4x4 brings casualties to a LST for evacuation from the Normandy beachhead, 13 June 1944.
Note the bulldozer just beyond the Jeep 4x4, and the line of German prisoners of war marching by in the background.
This appears to be "Utah" Beach.
Photo #: 80-G-252779. Uploaded on Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
A Jeep 4x4 brings casualties to a LST for evacuation from the Normandy beachhead, 13 June 1944.
Note the bulldozer just beyond the Jeep 4x4, and the line of German prisoners of war marching by in the background.
This appears to be "Utah" Beach.
Photo #: 80-G-252779. Uploaded on Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Jeep Iwo Jima Beach
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
"Jeep in the Heart of Iwo -- One of the first Jeep 4x4s to roll ashore as the Fifth Marine Division landed on Iwo Jima, met the same fate as most of the other vehicles, when it sank into the soft black volcanic ash on the beach.
Until steel mats were laid a large number of Willys MB Jeep vehicles and trucks were stalled in the quagmire as they rolled from landing boats.
Bogged vehicles were favorite targets of Japanese mortarmen who fired down from flanking mountains overlooking the beach."
Quoted from the original photo caption, released by Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, on 25 February 1945.
Photographed by T/Sgt. H. Neil Gillespie.
LCVP being unloaded in the center background is from USS Newberry (APA-158). Note lines being used to keep it from broaching, and the small (bulldozer-type) mobile crane assisting the work.
The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files. It was provided to Morison by E.J. Long.
Photo #: NH 104215. Uploaded on Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
"Jeep in the Heart of Iwo -- One of the first Jeep 4x4s to roll ashore as the Fifth Marine Division landed on Iwo Jima, met the same fate as most of the other vehicles, when it sank into the soft black volcanic ash on the beach.
Until steel mats were laid a large number of Willys MB Jeep vehicles and trucks were stalled in the quagmire as they rolled from landing boats.
Bogged vehicles were favorite targets of Japanese mortarmen who fired down from flanking mountains overlooking the beach."
Quoted from the original photo caption, released by Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, on 25 February 1945.
Photographed by T/Sgt. H. Neil Gillespie.
LCVP being unloaded in the center background is from USS Newberry (APA-158). Note lines being used to keep it from broaching, and the small (bulldozer-type) mobile crane assisting the work.
The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files. It was provided to Morison by E.J. Long.
Photo #: NH 104215. Uploaded on Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
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