A P-40 flies down the beach at extreme low level, as Marines practice an amphibious landing somewhere in the Pacific. In order to get this photo, the photographer standing on the beach would have had to have his back to the oncoming P-40 trusting that pilot would do a “buzz job” of the beach and not his hair. 

Low flyover

Map showing the tiny Roi-Namur islands
Roi is on the left with it's Japanese airfield,Namur on the right.During the heavy bombardement ,lasting several days,most of the Roi based Japanese fled to the sister island Namur because there they had better protection from the shelling and bombs.Result was a much harder battle for the Marines to secure Namur.
see divisional history:
http://www.fightingfourth.com/namur.htm 

greetz,brummbar

Battle map of Roi-Namur

Aboard the USS Levy (DE-162), Japanese Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara (1898 - 1947) (left) signs a document surrendering control of Wake Island to Marine Brigadier General Lawson H. M. Sanderson (right) and US forces, September 4, 1945. Also pictured is Japanese Paymaster Lieutenant P. Hisao Napasato.