Members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team push a jeep ashore during amphibious training exercises on 11 March 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description:
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team push a jeep ashore during amphibious training exercises. "Stalled and flooded vehicles must be pushed out of the surf." Reverse: "161-44-2452-10S16OE. Jeep of the 185th RCT, 40th Div [Infantry Division], being pushed ashore after landing from one ofthe Higgins boats. Forearm movement, Guadalcanal. Photo: Miller. 11 Mar 44". Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 11 March 1944
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$120.00
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03/11/1944
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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Guadalcanal
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-9.533
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160.200
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Soldiers--American--Guadalcanal