Marines helping transport civilians

[m606paz]

Marines helping transport civilians from the fighting zone during the battle to retake the Marshall Islands from occupying Japanese troops.
Location: Kwajalein, Marshall Islands
Date taken: February 09, 1944
Photographer: George Strock



Cual seria el motivo por el cual el toma de tralier tiene unos trozos de cinta pegada??

[gas08]

para que el nene No meta los dedos .....QUA.......Feliz Año!¡!¡ 20 12 para todos .

[Joe]

Evitar la entrada de mugre?

[federico cavedo]

Tal vez para evitar algun posible corto.

Algunas mais de este lugar (circa 1944).





Saludos.

Federico

[pascualmattera]

o esta de fabrica

se lo ve muy derechito je je

saludos pascual

[martinelterrible]

es porque se desembarco,y el socket no es blindado...quien esta derechito,el jeep,o Chester?

[pascualmattera]

hola Martin
me referia al jeep

saludos pascual

[m606paz]

Great photo. Possibly may have used the tape to keep water out of the trailer socket. It almost looks like the grab handle above the socket may have been partially torn off. Maybe it is just an optical conclusion?

I also just finished an unpublished memoir of a friend's father's account of his going ashore on Kwajalein on the first day...and the year or so after of his time there. He was actually in the USAAF, but went ashore after the Marines later that afternoon scared to death. Once the island was secured, he ended up maintianing and operating the fuel tanks for the delivery of fuel to planes based on the island as well as the occasional crippled plane forced to land there. It's one of the best stories of day-to-day life of the typical GI who wasn't directly in combat.

Regards,

Also, noticed the location of both pintle eyerings.

Jerry Can holder on RHS