7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past the dead body of fellow American soldier as they head into combat at Kwajalein on January 1944

Gift of George Gottschalk, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past dead body of fellow American soldier along road headed into combat. 'W-CPA-44-112-BR. 1/44. Young. Men of 7th Inf. Div. move forward in preparation for taking over the line.' Signal Corps Photograph. Photographer: Young. Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. January 1944

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Collection of photographs from the service of Brigadier General LeRoy J. Stewart, 7th Infantry Division, Commander of the 76th Field Artillery Battalion, and Chief of Staff who participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and Kwajalein invasion. Stewart was on the US Equestrian Team and participated in the 1932 Olympics. Graduated from the Citadel and West Point. Assumed command of the Field Artillery Battalion in the Aleutians. He later served as Commanding General and Artillery Officer on Kwajelein, Phillipines and Okinawa. He retired in 1951. Deceased January 1983.
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Kwajalein
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9.250
Longitude: 
167.500
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Dead persons--Kwajalein
Soldiers--American--Kwajalein