Two explosions close to a ship near Papua New Guinea, 1943-1945
Official U.S. Coast Guard photograph, Gift of Stacy Hutchinson, from the Collections of the National WWII Museum
Description:
Two Coast Guard personnel man an antiaircraft gun as another points above. Two explosions are seen in the water nearby. Smoke and perhaps another explosion are seen on the horizon. National Park Service caption: "Two near misses splash close aboard a Coast Guard manned LST on its way to the invasion of New Britain." Papua New Guinea, 1943-1945.
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1943
1945
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Collection of U.S. Official Coast Guard images.
Geography:
Papua New Guinea
Latitude:
-6.000
Longitude:
147.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Explosions--Papua New Guinea
Antiaircraft guns--American--Papua New Guinea
Sailors--American--Papua New Guinea