A dead Japanese soldier rests in front of a smoking pillbox on Enubuj Island, Kwajalein Atoll in January 1944
Gift of George Gottschalk, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Japanese corpse in front of smoking pillbox; total destruction surrounding body. 'W-CPA-44-106-T. 1/31. Ellner. Burning dugout, and bombed and burning pillbox. Enubuj Island, Kwajalein Atoll, 7th Div. troops.' Signal Corps Photograph. Photographer: Ellner. Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 31 January 1944
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Collection of photographs from the service of Brigadier General LeRoy J. Stewart, 7th Infantry Division, Commander of the 76th Field Artillery Battalion, and Chief of Staff who participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and Kwajalein invasion. Stewart was on the US Equestrian Team and participated in the 1932 Olympics. Graduated from the Citadel and West Point. Assumed command of the Field Artillery Battalion in the Aleutians. He later served as Commanding General and Artillery Officer on Kwajelein, Phillipines and Okinawa. He retired in 1951. Deceased January 1983.
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Kwajalein
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9.250
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167.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bunkers--Kwajalein
Dead persons--Kwajalein
Soldiers--Japanese--Kwajalein