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Description:Where Marines go, their Pin-Ups go. As a landing barge approaches the Japanese-held island of Tarawa a Marine takes a last look at his good-luck picture of a Pin-up girl. Tarawa burns in the background. (National Archives, USMC hdqtrs #63,572)
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