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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Coast guardsmen shuttle landing craft back and forth from the anchorage to the beach of Eniwetok Atoll, bringing in fighters and s... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marines unloading equipment and vehicles from supply ships at Guam beach. International M-5-H-65 trucks are in the background. |
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| Description: | USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II. |
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| Description: | Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View from the deck of the hospital ship, the USS Samaritan, at sea. There are other ships and a shoreline in the background. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and dozer shovel loader to unload supplies on a beach. A ship is in the background. The ori... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three marines dressed in uniform, carrying packs and holding guns, pull an ammunition cart through the water towards the beach at Iwo Jima. Military boats ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines on the beach and military boats, including an LSM 242, in the water at Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines dig foxholes into the sand on the beaches of Iwo Jima. The men are surrounded by military equipment, including a crane. An International Diesel cra... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Leota Kelly, directer of the Pacific Athletic Club, division of the Red Cross, and colleagues, at the site of the new Red Cross Club in Tinian near a cliff... |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st... |
| Date: | 11 08 1943 |
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| Description: | 32nd Division Infantry Combat Team landing from LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) in a practice exercise. Soldiers are running down a ramp, then up a rocky beac... |
| Date: | 12 31 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the loaded deck of a LST (Landing Ship, Tank) on the way from Goodenough Island to Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). On t... |
| Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers push a jeep that is stuck on the rocky beach at the Saidor landing. The open front of the LST (Landing Ship, Tank) is on the left. Another LST can... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | General view of Port Moresby Harbor from road, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A jeep is on the road on the left. Several soldiers are near a sh... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | View from road of the exterior of the Allied Officers' Club in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). It is built on posts above the wate... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ... |
| Date: | 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers land on the beach in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They use collapsible canvas boats to ferry men and equipment from small coastal ve... |
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