Keywords: 127-GW-895-50988: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. Sniper Goes To Roost. Garbed in captured Japanese sniper’s outfit, a U.S. Marine on Guadalcanal Island proves that the Japanese are not the only fighter who can “shimmy” up a coconut tree, secrete themselves in the lush foliage and hammer away at unsuspecting troops. Here he is giving them a dose of their own medicine. Photographed December 1942. 54U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13). 127-GW-895-50988: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. Sniper Goes To Roost. Garbed in captured Japanese sniper’s outfit, a U.S. Marine on Guadalcanal Island proves that the Japanese are not the only fighter who can “shimmy” up a coconut tree, secrete themselves in the lush foliage and hammer away at unsuspecting troops. Here he is giving them a dose of their own medicine. Photographed December 1942. 54U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13). |