17-014 Garand Picture of the Day -Tarawa

[Mark in Rochester]

Marines Red Beach 2 Tarawa 1942

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[daboone]

Because of this photo I found this site: http://www.worldwarphotos.info/

Because I lived and played on Guam for 3 years as a kid and my dad served in the Pacific I've never been able to satiate my interest in learning more about WWII Pacific. This Garand Pic of the Day site is very rewarding. Thanks for all the efforts and work that make this possible.

[CINDERS]

Marine left front "Bandaged hand but still in the fight."

[browningautorifle]

I lived and played on Guam for 3 years as a kid

What years would those have been? I've looked at Guam on Google Earth in detail and wondered what that would be like, being posted there. What was left lying around? Not much I would think.

[CINDERS]

Jim as a side line my nephew was posted to the Solomon Islands for 12 months his beat was a hut in the middle of the jungle that you were choppered into with 1 sat phone call per week allowed to his wife.
Rob said the amount of ordnance left there from WWII was staggering and will take probably the next 50 years to make the place safe he said the jungles were strewn with reminders of the conflict, I gather as the island steam roller carried the fight towards Japan it was probably easier to leave stuff behind as the detritus of war and just order new stuff.

Sorry should have elaborated as to his role he was under the U.N banner with the Australian Federal Police

[browningautorifle]

the Solomon Islands

Interesting...but I wonder about the US occupied islands. They may have cleaned up there. Mind you, clean up was probably load it onto a barge and take it out to dump it.

[Mark in Rochester]

Because of this photo I found this site: World War Photos |

Because I lived and played on Guam for 3 years as a kid and my dad served in the Pacific I've never been able to satiate my interest in learning more about WWII Pacific. This Garand Pic of the Day site is very rewarding. Thanks for all the efforts and work that make this possible.

There are several other sites such as

Bundesarchive Photos 1933 - 1945..+ all fields of WWII - Page 414 - Histomil.com

life magazine

WW2 in color WW2 in Color - Album on Imgur



most images do not have Garand in the title so it requires a good bit of searching

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Interesting...but I wonder about the US occupied islands. They may have cleaned up there. Mind you, clean up was probably load it onto a barge and take it out to dump it.

When my dad's ship ( AKA 3) arrived in the Philippines shortly after VJ day - the crew bulldozed a large hole in the jungle and dumped the whole cargo in it and covered it up

[browningautorifle]

the crew bulldozed a large hole in the jungle and dumped the whole cargo in it and covered it up

That's too bad. They weren't alone. That stuff carried on for ages too. Usually on a smaller scale though.

[Bill Hollinger]

Same story I got from my ex-father in law. He was a Sea Bee and he said they dug big holes and, in some instances, drove jeeps, trucks and other equipment right down into them and covered them up. Funny he said sometimes the water would fill the holes up faster than they could get them covered up.

[daboone]

What years would those have been? I've looked at Guam on Google Earth in detail and wondered what that would be like, being posted there. What was left lying around? Not much I would think.

Actually there was an abundant supply of unexploded ordnance for us kids to find. We even found and reported bombs both Japanese and American.

I lived on Guam 1957, 58 and 59. My dad was a civilian doctor at the Tamuning Hospital. A friend and I spent many hours searching battle fields and caves for "souvenirs". My sister dated a Navy UDT man. He was my HERO! He also help us keep from blowing ourselves up. The deal was if we found something explosive we had to show it to him. They would blow it up and we would get to watch them do it. They would give us kids a deactivated stuff in return for showing them where it was. I had a very nice collection of hand grenades, mortars, a "knee mortar" lancher, rifles and one Type 92 heavy machine. As a kid I love them. Unfortunately before I went of to college I gave my collection to a neighbor and a LEO friend of my dad. Now and then I feel the urge to bang my head against a brick wall from time to time for doing that.