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Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 4:59:29 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 5:35:26 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:06:05 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:06:14 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:09:10 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:10:46 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:11:23 PM   
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It doesn't look like they're being shot at to me.
At least not the guy in the foreground with the shouldered weapon

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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:13:17 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:16:18 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:17:23 PM   
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I'll guess an LCT, and troops armed with M1 Garand rifles and M1 + M2 carbines...

EDIT: Arghh - typo! - should be LVT, not LCT!!

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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:41:37 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 7:53:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Irrelevant gets it! Found the picture, and the credit identifies it as Yellow Beach on Makin. The troops would be from 165th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division.

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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 9:10:22 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 9:12:38 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/7/2005 9:16:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		I know Makin had trees. Did Tarawa? I had the impression all this time it had few large flora on it. Especially after the navy blasted it. ( did you know that part of the bombardment was useless at Tarawa. the angle of fire had the shells richoting off the island into the water on the far side)

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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 7:44:20 AM   
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Makin, it is

165th Infentry regiment, it is

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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 9:28:51 AM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 5:10:04 PM   
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ORIGINAL: deggo

Time-Life WWII series "Island Fighting" identifies it as 27TH Inf at Butaritari Island/Makin.


that is the main island of the Makin group



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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 5:24:11 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 5:27:08 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 5:44:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		More precisely it is "STORMING YELLOW BEACH, first wave of the 2d Battalion Landing Team, 165th Infantry, wades over wide reef under machine-gun fire from wharf on each flank. At 1040, 20 November 1943, they approach the main defensive area from the lagoon. Fires from hits by big naval guns."


Pic of assault on Yellow Beach (North side of island)




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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 6:39:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		If they're being machinegunned from either flank, they're rather relaxed about it.

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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 7:58:54 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

If they're being machinegunned from either flank, they're rather relaxed about it.


Well everybody knows the allies get so much stuff by that time in the war that casualties don't mean anything.

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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 8:03:06 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 8:32:23 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 9:55:08 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 10:12:42 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 11:17:55 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/9/2005 11:29:15 PM   
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RE: Name This...(428) - 9/10/2005 9:29:37 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Twotribes

Just North and east of Tarawa.

Thanks for the info Twotribes

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