The bodies of dead US Marines on a beach on Tarawa, 1943
Personal or Official U.S. Signal Corps Photo, Gift of Jim Matney, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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The bodies of dead US Marines, surrounded by debris, lie on a beach. "Marine Dead at Tarawa beach." Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. 1943
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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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Marines (Military personnel)--Tarawa
Dead persons--Tarawa
Debris--Tarawa
Beaches--Tarawa