Crew of a Marine light tank pull up on the beach long enough to peel off their clothes and take a dip in the cool Pacific. March 1944 - Guadalcanal

Swim time

A Marine Captain gives the final instructions in this skillful job of camouflaging a 16-ton amphibian tank to the crew members atop the tank somewhere in the South Pacific. The tank in which Leathernecks storm ashore and then punch their way inland is entirely concealed except for the gun turret and stubby cannon mouth. A Marine Corps Combat Photographer climbed fifteen feet up a tree to obtain this photo.(rudeerude)

Well camouflaged

An 81mm mortar mounted on the nose of a retriever tank. Iwo Jima - February 1945

