Army Signal Corp, many of war in the Philippines, surrender of Japanese soldiers and onto war ends. Many are scanned here
It looks like planes are The 29th Bomb Group so the image would date from February 1945 to May 1946 when the group was deactivated.
The beach with dead Japanese soldiers appears to be aftermath of the Battle of Sanananda in early 1943.
The photographer is Purl Allan Ferrier, S1c, SV-6 USNR
The image of the landing ships pulled up to the wrecked beach is from the Landings at Leyte. The image of the rockets being fired the ship is LSM 197 and the photograph was taken at Okinawa.
Some of the photos at least are from Pangasinan in the Philippines.
There's a photo of the Town Hall here (sorry for the Wiki link, but I feel it's valid here!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fabian,_Pangasinan#mediaviewer/File:SanFabianPangasinan224Jfzz.JPG
Photographer's name unknown
Not an answer, but I think you should include a nsfw/l tag for gore, not everybody is cool with seeing decapitations and the like without a warning.
Wow, does anyone know what the story is with that Melanesian guy?
http://www.kwvdm.org/personal_info_detail.php?id=JGibson
Joseph Gibbons seems to have taken some of these in Korea.
Some are from WWII, Philippines, Japan and what not.
Do a reverse image search, a lot are found online.
amazing photos, I would love to have an album like this
Is it just me or is the head being held back the black guy about half way down freaking massive? Anyone know why?
