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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99134

Makin Island raid, August 1942


"Colonel Evans F. Carlson, USMCR (left) and Lieutenant Colonel (then Major) James Roosevelt, USMCR (right) consult a map as they prepare to return to Pearl Harbor after the successful Makin Island raid of August, 1942." (quoted from the original 1942 photo caption).
This photograph was probably taken before the raid, or after the raiding party had returned to Hawaii. Lieutenant Colonel Carlson was commander of the Second Marine Raider Battalion.
Note the Marine standing in right center, holding a .30 caliber air cooled machine gun.

Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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3 March 2004