 Dec 2010
> World War II Island Hopping Campaign
December 2010 CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE (Source: US Department of Defense) |
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US Marines under fire on the
beach at Saipan. (June 1944/Sgt. James
Burns/Marine Corps) |
Marines storm Tarawa in November 1943. (Obie Newcomb, Jr/USMC) |
Marines take cover behind a sea wall on Red Beach #3,
Tarawa in November 1943. (Marine Corps) |
An American plane strafes Japanese troops
hidden in coral trenches, while Marines lie prone in the
sand at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall
Islands, in February 1944. (Coast Guard) |
American troops mop up in Bougainville in March 1944. (Army) |
U.S. Marine Raiders
gathered in front of a Japanese dugout on Cape Totkina,
Bougainville, Soloman Islands, in January 1944. (Navy) |
U.S. Marines salute the U.S. Coast Guard on Guam in
August 1944. (Coast Guard) |
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