Gurkha soldiers debarking from landing craft onto a beach, Rangoon, 1945
Gift in memory of Sgt. Lyle E. Eberspecher
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Photograph. Gurkha soldiers debarking from British landing craft onto a beach. Official caption on front: "Gurkha troops on beach near Rangoon, 5-2-45. US Army Photo 175-5." Rangoon, Burma [modern-day Yangon, Myanmar]. 2 May 1945
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05/02/1945
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This collection consists of approximately 1700 official military photographs that were reproduced by the Official Photos Company of Hollywood. Referred to as The War's Greatest Photographs, many of these photographs have been featured in magazines and books and many of the originals can be found in the United States National Archives and Records Administration. The images feature every theater and branch of the military in various campaigns and battles throughout World War II.
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Rangoon
Latitude:
16.783
Longitude:
96.167
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Gurkha soldiers--Burma
Landing craft--British--Burma
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma
Landing craft
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma