Photograph
Marines Unload Field Gun at Rendova
| U.S. Marines using an International Harvester TD-9 diesel TracTracTor to unload a field gun from an LST boat on the beach at Rendova. Original caption reads: "This gun and others like it pounded away at Munda across the channel on New Georgia Island until the Japs fled. The LST's, because of their size and color, are known to the Marines as Green Dragons." |
| Image ID: | 12148 |
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| Creation Date: | 1944 |
| Creator Name: | United States. Marines. |
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| Collection Name: | Photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, album 587, pg. 49 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph. |
| Tractors |
| Islands |
| Artillery |
| Marines |
| Transportation, Military |
| War work |
| World War, 1939-1945 |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Military uniforms |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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