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Photo #: 80-G-11727

Makin Island Raid, August 1942


Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson, commander of the U.S. Marine Second Raider Battalion, on board USS Nautilus (SS-168) just after returning from Makin Island, 18 August 1942.
He is still wearing his field gear, with a .45 caliber pistol in a cross-draw holster.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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3 March 2004