Four US Marines stand on a beach over the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers, Pacific Theater, 1943-1945
Personal or Official U.S. Signal Corps Photo, Gift of Jim Matney, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Four US Marines stand on a beach over a hole which holds the bodies of two or more dead Japanese soldiers. There are two LVTs [Landing Vehicle Tracked] on the shore. Pacific Theater. 1943-1945
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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)
Soldiers--Japanese
Dead persons
Landing craft--American
Tracked landing vehicles--American