U.S. Marines firing a 25-pdr. howitzer near the completed airstrip at Nadzab, Papua New Guinea; September 1943.

Marine artillery support

An M5A1 Stuart tank of Company A, 4th Tank Battalion of U.S. Marines in support of Marine infantry, on the island of  Roi-Namur, in the north part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, South Pacific; February 1, 1944. 

Tank supports Marine infantry

A Marine corpsman gives medical aid to a wounded Japanese soldier on Roi-Namur, an island in the northern part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
By early 1944, the American juggernaut across the Central Pacific was beginning to gain momentum.
