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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 104260

Kwajalein Invasion, February 1944


Senior officers and government officials inspect damage on Roi and Namur Islands, Kwajelein Atoll, after their capture.
Present are, from left to right:
Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN;
Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly, USN:
Assistant Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal;
Major General Harry Schmidt, USMC;
Major General Holland M. Smith, USMC;
Vice Admiral Ben Moreel, USN (CEC);
Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson, USMC, and
Rear Admiral Charles A. Pownall, USN.

Collection of Vice Admiral Robert C. Giffen, USN.

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

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20 December 2006