Photo #: NH 104536
Pacific Fleet Landing Force Exercise, 1911
Sailors and Marines landing on the beach at Coronado, California,
circa mid-March 1911.
Note the three-inch landing force gun in the center foreground,
field gear worn by the sailors, launch in the center, with its
stern to the beach, and steam launches off shore.
Photo from the 1909-1924 album of Vice Admiral Olaf M. Hustvedt,
USN (Retired), who was a Midshipman in USS West Virginia
(Armored Cruiser # 5) at the time this image was made. Courtesy
of Rick Hauck, 2006.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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