Soldiers loading into an LST along manmade, rock pier.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Gift of Mary Noble, from The collection of the National WWII Museum
Description: 

LST [Landing Ship Tank] along manmade, rock pier, bulldozer in foreground. "1689 - 83 photos - 1689. A USS L.S.T. joins a United Nations convoy en route to North Africa. 52. Into lifelike jaw of this LST, men and machines stream aboard in steady columns shoreward. - Official U.S. Navy Photograph." Circa 1943

Image Information

Donor: 
Ms. Mary Noble
Accession Number: 
2010.130.058
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US Navy
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Topical Subjects: 
Landing craft--American
Soldiers--American
Bulldozers
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Official U.S. Navy Photographs collected by navy veteran John R. Noble, who served in the Pacific on the USS Castor and the USS Fletcher during World War II.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Landing craft--American
Soldiers--American
Bulldozers