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Pacific Kneipp Club?
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Guys with super soakers filling them up to fight the fire in the background.
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Marines landing on Tarawa by the looks of the distance to the beach[&:]
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It doesn't look like they're being shot at to me.
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I wondered if it was Tarawa too.
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It doesn't look like they're being shot at to me.
At least not the guy in the foreground with the shouldered weapon [:'(]
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US army troops landing in the Philippines (Legaspi or Lingayen perhaps) in 1944 is my guess.

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They do look very relaxed. Either that or over confident [;)]
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Hmmm - no one is trying for the weapons.

I'll guess an LCT, and troops armed with M1 Garand rifles and M1 + M2 carbines...

EDIT: Arghh - typo! - should be LVT, not LCT!!
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US Army, not USMC. Does look like Tarawa though, so my guess would be Makin. LVT1A.
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Irrelevant gets it! Found the picture, and the credit identifies it as Yellow Beach on Makin. The troops would be from 165th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division.
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Can't be Tarawa. The Higgin's boat to the right would have never made it over the reef!
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Nope. It's Makin, alright.
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I know Makin had trees. Did Tarawa? I had the impression all this time it had few large flora on it. Especially after the navy blasted it. ( did you know that part of the bombardment was useless at Tarawa. the angle of fire had the shells richoting off the island into the water on the far side)
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Makin, it is[:)]

165th Infentry regiment, it is[:)]
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Time-Life WWII series "Island Fighting" identifies it as 27TH Inf at Butaritari Island/Makin.
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ORIGINAL: deggo

Time-Life WWII series "Island Fighting" identifies it as 27TH Inf at Butaritari Island/Makin.

that is the main island of the Makin group

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Where is Makin? I'm trying to find it on my world map on my wall.
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Just North and east of Tarawa.
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