US Marines kneel during a mass for deceased soldiers, Tarawa, 1943
Personal or Official U.S. Signal Corps Photo, Gift of Jim Matney, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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US Marines kneel in tribute to their fallen comrades as Father C. C. Rwdel, Chicago, Marine Corps chaplain, conducts mass for the Marines who died in the Tarawa campaign. Father Henri Jolivel, a French missionary who escaped from the Japanese on Tarawa, acts as altar attendant. [Source: The San Bernardino County Sun, December 13, 1943] "Mass for Marine dead on Tarawa." See also 2002.545.002. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. 1943
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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)--Tarawa
Chaplains--Tarawa
Outdoor religious services--Tarawa