Servicemen building a temporary causeway, Cape Gloucester, 1944
Gift of the Scanlan Family
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Photograph. Marines and Coast Guardsmen building a temporary causeway for unloading supplies on to a beach. Official caption on reverse: "3047. From: Public Relations Division / U.S. Coast Guard / Washington, D.C. / Official Coast Guard Photo. INVASION ROAD. U.S. Coast Guardsmen and Marines build a temporary causeway for unloading as the invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, gets underway. Men silhouetted in the foreground are standing on the ramp of a Coast Guard manned landing craft. Navy and Coast Guard manned LSTs participated in the invasion. These Coast Guard combat photos were taken in late December. Released January 8, 1944." Cape Gloucester, Solomon Islands. 8 January 1944
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01/08/1944
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Items from the service of John J. Scanlan Jr., who served in the United States Coast Guard. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Scanlan worked for a newspaper prior to joining the Coast Guard. During the war, he acquired photographs published by the Public Relations Division of the United States Coast Guard. The collection consists of photographs from most of the theaters of operations and depict life in the field and aboard a ship for Coast Guardsmen and Marines. Also included is a satirical piece of military correspondence. See collection 2012.321 for more items from the collection subject.
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Gloucester, Cape
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Landing craft--American--New Britain
Military supplies--American--New Britain