Members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team (the Bushmasters) push a jeep ashore from and LCVP during amphibious training exercises on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands on 11 March 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description:
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team (the Bushmasters) push a jeep ashore from and LCVP [Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel] during amphibious training exercises on Guadalcanal. "Stalled and flooded vehicles must be pushed out of the surf." [Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 11 March 1944]
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03/11/1944
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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.
Geography:
Guadalcanal
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-9.533
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160.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Guadalcanal
Jeep automobiles--American--Guadalcanal
Landing craft--American--Guadalcanal