Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:59 pm
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RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:35 pm
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:06 pm
Guys with super soakers filling them up to fight the fire in the background.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:06 pm
Marines landing on Tarawa by the looks of the distance to the beach[&:]
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:09 pm
It doesn't look like they're being shot at to me.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:10 pm
I wondered if it was Tarawa too.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:11 pm
At least not the guy in the foreground with the shouldered weapon [:'(]It doesn't look like they're being shot at to me.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:13 pm
US army troops landing in the Philippines (Legaspi or Lingayen perhaps) in 1944 is my guess.
Jim
Jim
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:16 pm
They do look very relaxed. Either that or over confident [;)]
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:17 pm
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!!
I'll guess an LCT, and troops armed with M1 Garand rifles and M1 + M2 carbines...
EDIT: Arghh - typo! - should be LVT, not LCT!!
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:41 pm
US Army, not USMC. Does look like Tarawa though, so my guess would be Makin. LVT1A.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:53 pm
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.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:10 pm
Can't be Tarawa. The Higgin's boat to the right would have never made it over the reef!
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:12 pm
Nope. It's Makin, alright.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:16 pm
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)
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:44 am
Makin, it is[:)]
165th Infentry regiment, it is[:)]
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:28 am
Time-Life WWII series "Island Fighting" identifies it as 27TH Inf at Butaritari Island/Makin.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:10 pm
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
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:24 pm
Where is Makin? I'm trying to find it on my world map on my wall.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:27 pm
Just North and east of Tarawa.