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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-11728

Makin Island Raid, August 1942

Members of the U.S. Marine Second Raider Battalion on board USS Nautilus (SS-168) after returning from Makin Island, 18 August 1942.
The Marine in the foreground holds a Japanese rifle, "which he used to shoot and kill a Japanese soldier after he captured it" (quoted from the original 1942-era photo caption).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 66KB; 500 x 765 pixels

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3 March 2004