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Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:58 pm
by Brady
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RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:26 pm
by WhoCares
Flag Type Stars and Stripes, two soldiers in an american outfit anybody else here on the board can identify much better than me, something what might be a LCM in the background, another ship far away I bet even you don't know and a tracked vehicle on the right.
Not to forget the soil and some weed and roots.

Might actually be not staged, considering how low the photographer is on the ground [:'(]

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:43 pm
by rtrapasso
Two guys confused as to the location of Mt. Surabachi. [:'(]

From the little scoop-like projections on the track of the foreground vehicle, it is probably an LVT rather than a Sherman or Stuart.


RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:50 pm
by rogueusmc
I believe that is on the beach at Guam. I have that pic in my screensaver...[8D]

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:24 pm
by Speedysteve
The chappies have the look on the their faces of either:

a.) there's some kitchen sinks coming towards us

b.) why are they running at us with swords

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:33 pm
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: Speedy

The chappies have the look on the their faces of either:

a.) there's some kitchen sinks coming towards us

b.) why are they running at us with swords

The guy on our right looks like Corp. Klinger (of MASH fame). The guy on the left must be Navy as he seems to be wearing a life jacket. Maybe a coxswain from a landing craft?

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:49 pm
by DuckofTindalos
That pic just screams "I'M STAGED" at me.[8D]

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:51 pm
by Speedysteve
Cynical Red. Cynical

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:35 pm
by fokkov
It must be after the battle or they are asking for a jap arty barrage on that spot[:-]

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:06 pm
by saj42
Definately LVTs. Obviously not under much enemy fire or the two LVTs wouldn't be bobbing around off the beach checking out the surf [:D]

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:47 pm
by Twotribes
If it is Guam, there wasnt much of a fight taking the island was there?

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:46 am
by Desertdaddy
U.S. Army 7th Infantry Division assault Kwajalein Atoll

LVT(1)s in background

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 6:26 am
by Brady


Guam, it is[:)]

LVT, it is[:)]

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:13 am
by Chris21wen
Don't we make a good target with this great big flag stuck up in the air. GREAT IDEA.

RE: Name This...(424)

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:57 pm
by rogueusmc
It was the first flag on Guam. It was a common practice to show the colors like that. It was an honor to do it...if you fell, someone would pick up the colors and cotinue where you fell.