View looking down onto Enubuj Island and a severely damaged enemy camp in February 1944
Gift of George Gottschalk, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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View looking down onto previously Japanese-occupied camp where buildings are severely damaged. 'W-CPA-44-107-CF 2/7 Weaver. Aerial view of Enubuj island from high up in the radar tower. Left to right: Jap pier with latrines at the end running out on the reef, uncovered concrete water pits, center, bottom srecked [sic] and burned battery ; uncompleted concrete form, Jap officers mess, kitchen and latrines, Jap concrete, Radio bldg. and bottom right, is a concrete covered round water reservoir. Enubuj Island.' Signal Corps Photograph. Photographer: Weaver. 7 February 1944
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Collection of photographs from the service of Brigadier General LeRoy J. Stewart, 7th Infantry Division, Commander of the 76th Field Artillery Battalion, and Chief of Staff who participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and Kwajalein invasion. Stewart was on the US Equestrian Team and participated in the 1932 Olympics. Graduated from the Citadel and West Point. Assumed command of the Field Artillery Battalion in the Aleutians. He later served as Commanding General and Artillery Officer on Kwajelein, Phillipines and Okinawa. He retired in 1951. Deceased January 1983.
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Kwajalein
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9.250
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167.500
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War damage--Kwajalein
Aerial views--Kwajalein