These men have earned the bloody reputation of being skillful jungle fighters.  They are U.S. Marine Raiders gathered in front of a Jap dugout on Cape Totkina on Bougainville, Soloman Islands, which they helped to take.  January 1944. (Navy)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #: 080-G-205686
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1200

Marine Raiders in Bougainville

Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.  His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes.  February 1944. (Coast Guard)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  026-G-3394
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1198

Stressed Marine

Two Coast Guard-manned LST's open their great jaws in the surf that washes on Leyte Island beach, as soldiers strip down and build sandbag piers out to the ramps to speed up unloading operations.  1944. (Coast Guard)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  026-G-3738
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1210