Taclobab Air Strip Captured - At A Cost
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Unidentified
Maker
Taclobab Air Strip Captured - At A Cost
1944
Gelatin silver print
23.7 x 19.6 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "3531" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"Tacloban Air Strip Captured - At A Cost" "An American medium tank hit
a Jap land mine in surging forward to the Tacloban Air Strip during
the early stages of the Philippine invasion on Oct. 20. Here, a Coast
Guard Combat Photographer finds one of the wounded from the wrecked
tank being bandaged by a medical corpsman. The air strip at Tacloban,
capital of Leyte Island, fell under an irresistible Yankee attack"...
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"Tacloban Air Strip Captured - At A Cost" "An American medium tank hit
a Jap land mine in surging forward to the Tacloban Air Strip during
the early stages of the Philippine invasion on Oct. 20. Here, a Coast
Guard Combat Photographer finds one of the wounded from the wrecked
tank being bandaged by a medical corpsman. The air strip at Tacloban,
capital of Leyte Island, fell under an irresistible Yankee attack"...
