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Dog Green Beach on Omaha Beach, famous for "Saving Private Ryan" and 29th Infantry Division. 60th anniversary of D-Day. 2004.

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Below you will find a gallery of photos taken prior to 2007.

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A photo gallery of Wilbur D. Jones, Jr.’s more recent personal photograph collection can be found HERE.

Saipan shrine to Japanese dead killed in action and civilians who killed themselves at Suicide Cliffs. 1995

Iwo Jima black sands invasion beaches, with Mount Suribachi in background. 1995/98.

Madame Kuribyashi, widow of Iwo Jima commander, speaks at Iwo Jima joint Japanese-American 50th anniversary ceremony. 1995

Wreck of Marine LVT amphibious tractor discovered in 1994 in jungle behind landing beaches on Tinian, Marianas. 1995

Normandy village of Cruelly commemorates 60th anniversary of D-Day. June 2004.

Atomic Bomb Pit No. 1, where “Little Boy” atomic bomb was loaded on to B-29 “Enola Gay” for strike on Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945. North Field, Tinian, Marianas, 1995.

With Wilmington friend Doris Ayers at Auberge Le John Steele, Ste. Mere Eglise, Normandy. Ayers is step daughter of Steele, 82nd Airborne Division, whose parachute stuck on church steeple on June 6, 1944. 2004.

German gun emplacement at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy. 2004/10.

Saipan, Marianas – Last command post cave of Japanese commander Gen. Yoshitsugu Saito on island’s northern end. 1995

Peleliu, Palaus – USMC LVT1(A) with 75mm cannon. 1999.

Aerial view of North Field on Tinian, Marianas, home to B-29 Superfortresses that bombed Japan, including the Enola Gay and Bocks Car – dropped atomic bombs. 1995

Saipan, Marianas. Japanese Last command post HQ cave. 1995

Inside last command post of Japanese Gen. Yoshitugu Saito on Saipan. 1995

North Field on Tinian, Marianas, which based B-29s for strikes against Japan including Enola Gay and Bocks Car carrying nuclear bombs. 1995.

Dummy of 82nd Airborne paratrooper John Steele (Red Buttons in “The Longest Day”) hung up on church steeple in main place of Ste. Mere Eglise, Normandy. Steele later lived in Wilmington for 13 years. 2004/10.

On top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, where Marines planted the U.S. flag on Feb. 18, 1945. 50th anniversary. 1995.

President Bush with French President Chirac at 60th anniversary commemoration service, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer. June 6, 2004.

With Frolian Tenorio, governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Saipan. For Iwo Jima 50th anniversary. 1995.

At Churchill’s WWII Cabinet War Rooms, London. 2004.

With local woman and Madame Yuki Tojo, granddaughter of Japan’s wartime premier, Gen. Hideki Tojo. Peleliu, Palaus. 1999.

Peleliu, Palaus, for 55th anniversary. September 1999.

P-47 Thunderbolt at American aviation museum at Duxford, England. 2004

Dog Green Beach on Omaha Beach, famous for “Saving Private Ryan” and 29th Infantry Division. 60th anniversary of D-Day. 2004.

Program of airborne drop at Ste. Mere Eglise, Normandy, June 2004. Autographed by Speaker of the House Hastert, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Meyer, USArmy Europe commander Gen. Bell, and SME mayor LeFevre.

Royal Air Force Spitfire fighter at Duxford, England, Imperial War Museum. 2004