An Ammunition Dump Went Up
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Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
An Ammunition Dump Went Up
October 1944
Gelatin silver print
24.0 x 19.4 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "3747" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"An Ammunition Dump Went Up" "An American who gave his life doing his
duty is found by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer in the shambles
caused by a direct Jap bomb hit on an ammunition dump near the village
of Dulag, Leyte Island. One hundred and fifty Yankee fighting men lost
their lives in the explosion."
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"An Ammunition Dump Went Up" "An American who gave his life doing his
duty is found by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer in the shambles
caused by a direct Jap bomb hit on an ammunition dump near the village
of Dulag, Leyte Island. One hundred and fifty Yankee fighting men lost
their lives in the explosion."
