7th Infantry Division soldiers aboard the USS Zeilin loading .50 caliber machine gun ammunition into crates on way to the Marshalls in January 1944

Gift of George Gottschalk, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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7th Infantry Division soldiers aboard the USS Zeilin (APA-3) loading .50 caliber machine gun ammunition into crates. 'W-CPA-44-120-AE 1/44. Gurtcheff. Men of the 7th Div., U.S. Army loading .50 cal. ammunition belts aboard Zeilin on way to Marshalls.' Signal Corps Photograph. Photographer: Gurtcheff. 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
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167.500
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Machine guns--American--Kwajalein
Soldiers--American--Kwajalein