Tarawa Island
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Tarawa Island

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Photograph

Frank Filan

Maker
American, 1905–1952

Tarawa Island

1943
Gelatin silver print, printed 1988
26.2 x 34.1 cm.
Gift of The Associated Press, 1988
1988.0398.0016
Inscriptions verso-(stamped) "11 49"
(in pencil) "678"
TextA blasted Japanese pill box on Tarawa in the South Pacific after the invasion of the island by U.S. Marines.

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