American tanks and Marines fighting on the front, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Personal or Official U.S. Signal Corps Photo, Gift of Jim Matney, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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American M4 Sherman tanks, and--in the foreground--one Marine with a .30 caliber machine gun and another with a M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. The Marines are in a ditch and there is much debris around. "U.S. tanks smash Kwajalein front." Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 1944
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Photographs (personal and Signal Corps) from the collection of Navy Corpsman Glen Matney, who served in the PTO in WWII.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Tanks (Military science)--American--Kwajalein
Marines (Military personnel)--Kwajalein
Machine guns--American--Kwajalein
Debris--Kwajalein