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Landing Supplies At Abemama Atoll, Gilbert Islands, 1943 & Survivors of Italian Submarine "Argento" Sunk By USS Buck (DD-420), 1943
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United States Naval Photographic Center film #1433 National Archives description "1) MS Truck backing up to ramp of beached LST. 2) MS Fuel drums rolling down ramp into water. 3) MCU Men secure fuel drums with line forward of LST-29. 4) MS Fuel drums rolling down ramp of LST; men secure lines to drums. 5) LS Three beached LSTs with doors open. 6) LS Tractor pulling stalled truck up through surf from beach. 7) LS Several beached LST"s; drums of oil coming down ramp in FG. 8) MS Oil drums rolling down ramp into water; men in water securing them to large raft made of oil drums. 9) LS Beached LSTs; strip of sandy beach in FG. 10) MLS Two beached LST"s, bow doors open; parked LVT in front of one of them. 11) MS LCT coming along the beach; LST"s in BG. 12) MS Group of men loading oil drums on back of truck 13) MS Tractor towing stalled truck. 14) MS Men unloading gear from LST onto truck which is in the water. SV 15) MS Crewmen carrying 5" shells across deck of ship; men picking up the shells. SV 16) MS Men carrying 5" rounds off lighter tied up alongside DD, stacking rounds on deck. 17) LA MS Men in hatch of lighter picking up rounds and handing them to men on deck. SV 18) HA CU Heads o…
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United States. Navy
Subjects
WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Navy, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, World War II, World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners And Prisons, American, Landing Craft -- United States, Rites And Ceremonies, USS Buck, Soldiers' Bodies, Disposition Of, USS Buck (DD-420), World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Kiribati, USS LST-29
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