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Officers Discuss Raid on Makin Island

2015-49
Accession Number
2015-49
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 350898556
Related Collection
Parks, Lewis S. Papers
Keywords
Marines
Naval officers
World War, 1939-1945
People Pictured
Carlson, Evans Fordyce, 1896-1947
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U.S. Navy

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Description
Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson (left), Chief of the United States Marine Raiders and Lieutenant Commander William Brockman, United States Navy, look at a map of Makin Island and discuss the successful attack. Lieutenant Commander Brockman's submarine shelled Japanese installations on the island while Lieutenant Colonel Carlson's Raiders went ashore and destroyed an enemy seaplane base, killing eighty Japanese. The photograph is included in Lewis Parks's photo album entitled "Submarine Pictures W. War II."
Date(s)
August 1942