Dead Japanese soldiers and their damaged equipment on the beach at Kwajalein Island in February 1944
Gift of George Gottschalk, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Dead Japanese soldiers and their damaged equipment on beach. 'W-CPA-44-106-DP. 2/4 Ellner. Jap dead and their equipment is all that is left after the island had been bombed by land and sea. Nothing was left standing after the troops had finished mopping up. 7th Div., U.S. Army, Kwajalein Island.' Signal Corps Photograph. Photographer: Ellner. 4 February 1944
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$120.00
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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
Latitude:
9.250
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167.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Dead persons--Kwajalein
War damage--Kwajalein
Soldiers--Japanese--Kwajalein