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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-475421

Kiska Operation, August 1943


Troops march up the beach at Adak, during pre-invasion loading for the Kiska Operation, 13 August 1943.
Photographed by Lt. Horace Bristol, USNR, of the Steichen photographic unit.
LCM behind the soldiers is from USS Zeilin (APA-3). USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) is in the far right distance.
Note the troops' packs and M1 rifles.

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

Online Image: 118KB; 670 x 675 pixels

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24 November 1999