An American plane sweeps overhead to strafe the enemy hidden in their coral trenches, while a group of Marines lie prone in the sand peppering the Japs across smoking NoMan's Land with rifle fire.  Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, February 1944.  (Coast Guard)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  026-G-3364
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1184

Ground Support

Taking the slim protection that a blasted three affords, this Marine picks-off the Japs in a pill box.  A Jap in a pill box must be shot through the small opening he uses to sight through, but that didn't bother this Marine on Tarawa.  November 1943. (Marine Corps)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  127-N-63472
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1183

Marine Shoots at Pill Box

Retreating at first into the jungle of Cape Gloucester, Japanese soldiers finally gathered strength and counterattacked their Marine pursuers.  These machine gunners pushed them back.  January 1944.  Brenner. (Marine Corps)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  127-N-71981
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1186