9 November 2022 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Title: Tarawa Invasion, November 1943
Description: Major General Holland M. Smith, USMC, (center), commanding the V Amphibious Force ground forces, and Major General Julian C. Smith, commanding the Second Marine Division, inspect Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, in late November 1943. Marines under their command had just seized the island from the Japanese. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Here he is on Tarawa don't think it is the same guy in OP - note the helmet cover difference