Knocking out Attu #3
Collection Name
San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Aleutian Islands Photographs, 1942-1948
Identifier
UAF-1970-11-40
Title
Knocking out Attu #3
Description
Title from verso .Photograph of a team firing a mortar . Verso reads : "Right in the thick of action on Attu , hurling their trench mortar shells over a ridge into a Japanese position , these soldiers go about their job casually . Note the expressions as two of them wait tensely for the explosion . A third , with head down , speaks into a field telephone , a cigarette dangling from his lips . This is the first close-up of land battle action on Attu to be released . NY LON SA 12 MUR 6/4/43 (JR) credit (Official U . S . Navy photo from Acme) W 687397 "
Creator
United States. Navy
Subject.TGM
Soldiers Mortars (Ordnance) Military personnel War Soldiers Arms & armament
Subject.LCSH
World War II World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, Alaska
Corporate Name
United States. Army
Location
Attu Island (Alaska)
Region
Western Alaska and Aleutian Islands
Time Period
1939 to 1959
Date
06/4/1943
Type
Collection Image (Photographs)
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Holding Institution
Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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