Japanese Ammunition Dump Goes Up On Angaur Island - A burst of flame rends the heavens over Angaur Island just as a Coast Guard Combat Photographer clicked his shutter during the invasion of that Palau n the Carolines. American invaders had scored a ...
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Japanese Ammunition Dump Goes Up On Angaur Island - A burst of flame rends the heavens over Angaur Island just as a Coast Guard Combat Photographer clicked his shutter during the invasion of that Palau n the Carolines. American invaders had scored a ...

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Japanese Ammunition Dump Goes Up On Angaur Island - A burst of flame rends the heavens over Angaur Island just as a Coast Guard Combat Photographer clicked his shutter during the invasion of that Palau n the Carolines. American invaders had scored a ...

September 1944
Gelatin silver print
18.6 x 24.0 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "2890" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo"
"Jap Ammunition Dump Goes Up On Angaur Island" "A burst of flame rends
the heavens over Angaur Island just as a Coast Guard Combat
Photographer clicked his shutter duringf the invasion of that Palau
Island base in the Carolines. American invaders had scored a direct
hit on a Jap ammunitions dump. The island rocked, debris filled the
air and concussion blurred the figure of a Yankee Marine..."
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