Army men rehearse rolling out steel matting over which machines move out of LSTs in beaching operations in May 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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387.Photograph. LSTs [Landing ship, tank]. "File No: 231,224 June 6, 1944 Welcome mat rolled out of LST--Army men rehearse rolling out the steel matting over which machines move out of LSTs in beaching operations. Under the trained eye of Navy experts, Army men spent long hours at this and other 'maritime activities'. Now they are performing them under fire with the speed and practiced ease of veterans." Probably May 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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England
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53.000
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-2.000
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Landing craft--American
Soldiers--American
Sailors--American