Outdoor funeral service for deceased Marines, 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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Outdoor funeral service with Marines gathered around graves marked with small white sticks. "Heroes of the fight for Roi Island [Roi-Namur] honored in death." 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.
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Marines (Military personnel)--Kwajalein
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Kwajalein
Graves--Kwajalein
Chaplains--Kwajalein