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14-169 Garand Picture of the Day - Peleliu
Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 06-18-2014 at 12:22 PM.
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I was just on Peleliu at orange beach on Google Earth. Then came down close to try to put the then and now pics together to see how far they had to run across the airfield...in that heat, with minimum water. And maximum incoming...
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Well the bottom pic looks like two lefties how unusual, the island campaigns were just plain horrid all round hard to name the worst of them Tarawa and IWO gads goes on my nephew who is a Federal Police SGT did a tour in the Solomon's he reckons the UBX ordinance chaps have another 25 years up there getting rid of all the stuff left over from WWII.
The Crocodile was the name for the Churchill flame throwing tank what did they call the Shermans so fitted up.
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Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 06-19-2014 at 12:34 PM.
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