A rifle squad fires a salute to American dead at a cemetery on Kwajalein Atoll, 1944

Personal or Official U.S. Signal Corps Photo, Gift of Jim Matney, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Rifle squad fires a salute to American dead at cemetery on a beach; an American flag flies at half-mast. "Salute to American dead on Kwajalein." Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 1944

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Photographs (personal and Signal Corps) from the collection of Navy Corpsman Glen Matney, who served in the PTO in WWII.
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Soldiers--American--Kwajalein
Flags--American
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Kwajalein
Cemeteries--American--Kwajalein
Beaches--Kwajalein