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Pacific Theater
Photographer: Tom Fuchs
Taken: January 19, 2008
Caption: Pacific Theater
Additional Description: Armored, amphibian and amphibian tractor battalions stormed the beaches in Admiral Nimitz's island hopping campaign across the vast Central Pacific and by Admiral Halsey's conquest of the Solomons along with Gen MacArthur's campaign from New Guinea to the liberation of the Philippnes. In these campaigns, tank infantry teams expanded beachheads and led inland by a close assault of enemy fortified positions. Tarawa, Guadacanal, Buna, Saipan, Manila, Iwo Jima and Okinawa are but a few examples of the vicious close combat American solidiers and Marines and Australians experienced in defeating a fanatical enemy fighting to death from caves and bunkers.
Submitted: January 24, 2008, by Tom Fuchs of Greenbelt, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p14582
File Size: 11.277 Megabytes

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