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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USMC 50479

Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, USMC
,
Commandant of the Marine Corps

Shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt a Japanese Navy flag captured during the August 1942 Marine raid on Makin Island. Photographed at the White House in September 1942.

U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.

Online Image: 120KB; 585 x 765 pixels

Note:
the upper part of this photograph has been badly damaged, possibly by water. The Marine Corps photograph collection was subject to periodic flooding when it was located in a low-lying area behind Henderson Hall (Arlington, Virginia) during the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in loss of many historic images and damage to others.

 

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2 March 2004