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Seabee & Native Activities: Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1943

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United States Naval Photographic Center film #1515. National Archives description "1) MS Natives loading personal belongings onto LCM on the beach.2) MCU Native worker carrying valise onto LCM.3) MS Three native boys sitting in canoe.4) MS Two men trying to get large canoe onto beach.5) HA MLS Long line of officers and men standing outside tent.6) HA CU Man stirring food in pot; food being served.7) MS Men sitting and eating at tables outside quonset huts (SV).8) MS Seabees walking past GI cans, cleaning their eating utensils.9) MS Two men attaching line to gear aboard LCM.10) MS Old native man and woman.11) MS Natives helping to push LCM off beach; other men standing about.12) CU Two natives sitting on ground chewing meat.13) CU One native boy chewing on bone; PAN, to two other native boys.14) CU Two natives sitting on shore; LCM in BG.15) CU Old native man wearing straw hat.16) CU Boxes of gear with native markings on them (SV).17) MS Four seabees stacking crates on pallet.18) MS Stacked gear in grove of palm trees.19) CU Piping laying on ground, vehicle in BG.20) MS Vehicle, man burning metal with arc welder in FG.21) MS Two men working on piece of metal on box22) HA CU One man…

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United States. Navy

Subjects

WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Navy, World War II, Landing Craft -- United States, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, United States. -- Navy -- Seabees, World War, 1939-1945 -- Engineering And Construction, Majuro Atoll (Marshall Islands), World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Marshall Islands, Operational Rations (Military Supplies)

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