View of an LST in the water during the 40th Infantry Division's amphibious training en route to an unknown invasion site in June 1944

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A close view of an LST in the water during 40th Infantry Division amphibious training. "LST"s (Landing ship tanks) en route to invasion site." June 1944

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1944-06-
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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South Pacific Ocean
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Landing craft--American