Native Americans and World War II refers to the contributions of Native Americans to the United States military and home front from 1939 to 1945. Scholars estimate that approximately 44,000 Native Ame
General Douglas MacArthur meeting Navajo, O'odham, Pawnee and other native troops on 31 December 1943.
A Native American veteran at the Bonus Army camp in Washington, D.C. c. July 1932
Lieutenant Woody J. Cochran, a Cherokee Indian and bomber pilot, holding up a captured Japanese flag and Nambu pistol during the New Guinea campaign on April 1, 1943.
Dan Waupoose, a Menominee chief, training at Algiers, Louisiana, on August 24, 1943.
Battle of Iwo Jima
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, and United States Army landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken on Mount Suribachi
Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The battleship USS New York firing her 14 in (360 mm) main guns on the island, 16 February 1945 (D minus 3)
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance