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Photo #: USMC 134057 Mili Island, Mili Atoll, Marshalls Group Damaged Japanese Navy Type 89 5"/40 twin dual-purpose gun mount on Mili, at the time of the island's surrender in late August 1945. Mili, target of eighteen months of ceaseless bombing by U.S. Marine Corps aircraft, was the first Japanese Pacific island to surrender at the end of World War II. Photographed by R.O. Kepler, USMC. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph. Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo Number 127-G-134057. |
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1 March 1999