USCG sailors manning a .50 cal anti-aircraft gun
Gift of William P. Desjardins
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Photograph. Three United States Coast Guard sailors manning a .50 cal anti-aircraft gun aboard LST-170. One sailor is strapped into the MK21 .50 cal mount while two other sailors pose behind the gun. In the background is an LST and an APA [attack transport]. Pacific Ocean. No date
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1943-05-
1946-04-
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Items from the service of an unidentified United States Coast Guard [USCG] sailor aboard LST-170 in the Pacific Theater of Operations. LST-170 was commissioned on 31 May 1943, and manned by an all USCG crew. Between May 1943 and the end of the war, LST-170 participated in multiple landings in the Bismark Islands, New Guinea, Hollandia, and the Philippines. She earned seven battle stars during the war in the Pacific. This collection consists of photographs that depict ship board life, islands in the pacific, and invasions.
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South Pacific Ocean
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Ships--American--Pacific Ocean
Sailors--American--Pacific Ocean
Antiaircraft guns--American--Pacific Ocean