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Tarawa   Gallery: WAPA Gallery   Album: Pacific Theater   Album: Tarawa   21 of 25 NA_94.jpg Description: Time out. A Marine draped with hand-grenades and extra clips of ammunition takes time out for a drink from his canteen on Tarawa. The fighting here was hot enough to make even a Marine thirsty. Dec 6 1943. (National Archives, USMC Hdqtrs #63,489) 21 of 25  Gallery: WAPA Gallery   Album: Pacific Theater   Album: Tarawa

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