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Date: ca.1944
Title: "Water Buffalo" [amphibious tanks] line
up for invasion of Cape Sansapor at the western end of Dutch New Guinea. In
silhouette, Coast Guardsman Robert Campbell stands guard.
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Date: March 1945
Title: Private First Class Angelo B. Reina, of
Utica, New York, company A, 391st Infantry Regiment, guards a lonely Oahu beach
position. Kahuka, Oahu Hawaii.
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Date: October 20, 1944
Title: An american medium tank hit a Japanese
land mine in surging forward to the Tacloban Air Strip during the early stages
of the Philippines invasion on October 20. Here, one of the wounded from the
wrecked tank is being bandaged by a medical corpsman.
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Date: 1944
Title: Negro sailors of the USS MASON
commissioned at Boston Navy Yard 20 March 1944 proudly look over their ship
which is first to have predominantly Negro crew.
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Date: June 6, 1944
Title: Landing on the coast of France under
heavy nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they
left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat.
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Date: February 1944
Title: Back to a Coast Guard assault transport
comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in
the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of
battle stays in his eyes.
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Date: February 23, 1945
Title: Flag rising on Iwo Jima
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Date: ca.1942-1944
Title: Sergeant Norwood Dorman, Benson, North
Carolina, stops to rest at the memorial to the Italian soldier of World War I,
Brolo, Sicily.
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