War damaged Japanese machine gun nest and Japanese corpses, Pacific Theater, 1943-45

Personal or Official U.S. Signal Corps Photo, Gift of Jim Matney, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Japanese heavy machine gun nest that has been hit by American fire. There are three or four dead Japanese around the gun. "Direct hit on Jap machine gun nest." Pacific Theater. 1943-45

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Photographs (personal and Signal Corps) from the collection of Navy Corpsman Glen Matney, who served in the PTO in WWII.
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Machine guns--Japanese
Soldiers--Japanese
Dead persons
War damage