Marine Corp Aviation Command and Control
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Marine Corp Aviation Command and Control
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Marines Doing Laundry in the Pacific - Okinawa Japan, 1945
Corporal William J Batterton (US Marine Corps) doing laundry. Our laundry was made of a 55 gallon drum and a bicycle. When we peddled the bike, the drum would go around to clean the cloths. To rinse the cloths, we emptied the drum, refilled the drum,…
Sergeant John Atwood, Battle of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, 1944.
Photo taken by a member of US Marine Corps Air Warning Squadron 1, from Miramar, CA. AWS-1 was an aviation command and control squadron tasked to provide aerial surveillance and early warning during amphibious assaults.
Mount Sirubachi on the Island of Iwo Jima, Japan
Picture taken by Albert Buff of US Marine Air Warning Squadron-1 in 1945.
Marines of Air Warning Squadron-1 on an F4U Corsair fighter aircraft in World War II
Marines of Air Warning Squadron-1 on an F4U Corsair fighter aircraft in World War II