A surrendering Japanese soldier, surrounded by Marines, is pulled up out of a foxhole on 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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A surrendering Japanese soldier, surrounded by Marines, is pulled up out of a foxhole. There is a machine gun on a tripod near the foxhole. "Jap soldier gives self up at Kwajalein." 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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Soldiers--Japanese--Kwajalein
Surrenders--Japanese--Kwajalein
Marines (Military personnel)--Kwajalein
Foxholes--Kwajalein
Machine guns