Keywords: Lot-5279-5: Battle of Kwajalein, 31 January – 3 February 1944. From original caption, “A seething mass of flame and smoke boils up from the blazing Japanese installations at Bigej Islet on Kwajalein Atoll as huge clouds of smoke roll across the Central Pacific from other wrecked enemy positions during an attack by carrier-based planes. Kwajalein, the largest atoll in the Marshalls, was captured in a combined naval, air, and land attack during which 8,122 Japanese soldiers were killed.” U.S. Navy Photograph.(2015/10/30) Lot-5279-5: Battle of Kwajalein, 31 January – 3 February 1944. From original caption, “A seething mass of flame and smoke boils up from the blazing Japanese installations at Bigej Islet on Kwajalein Atoll as huge clouds of smoke roll across the Central Pacific from other wrecked enemy positions during an attack by carrier-based planes. Kwajalein, the largest atoll in the Marshalls, was captured in a combined naval, air, and land attack during which 8,122 Japanese soldiers were killed.” U.S. Navy Photograph.(2015/10/30) |