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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-50770

Attu Invasion, May 1943


Soldiers climb down cargo netting to board landing craft alongside USS Heywood (APA-6), off Attu on 11 May 1943.
Note the M1 carbines carried by some of these men.

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

Online Image: 85KB; 585 x 765 pixels

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13 March 2002