Members of the 1st Marine Division on Wana Ridge, Okinawa, attacking a Japanese sniper nest with Browning Automatic Rifle; 1945.

Silencing the sniper

Lieutenant Colonel R. G. Balance of the US 1st Marine Division on the field phone at the shore party command post, Peleliu, Palau Islands, South Pacific Ocean; September, 1944.  


Command Post in the sand

Marines man an anti-aircraft gun on a beach of Cape Gloucester, on the northern side of the far west part of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea; January 1944. 