Higgins landing craft arriving at Guadalcanal Island,1943

Higgins boats

Elmer Jensen of South River, NJ was a helmsman on the USS Augusta. He watched through his binoculars as American troops were storming and dieing on Omaha Beach and the cliffs they tried to scale... Meanwhile, he said "The guns on the Augusta fired so often and so fast that the paint on the hull blistered from the heat."

Young seaman Jensen

US Navy gunners are on the lookout for Japanese kamikaze planes somwhere on the Pacific. Twin Bofors AA guns are ready for them.