This page from Edward P. McAleer's WWII photo album documents his service during the Marshall Islands campaign. The lower photograph, captioned 'Reef Kwajalene 1944,' places McAleer on the shattered coral terrain of Kwajalein Atoll shortly after the fierce U.S. amphibious assault of January-February 1944, one of the war's most concentrated naval and aerial bombardments. The companion image of 'Bob & Ed' beside a boom-equipped support vehicle reflects the engineering and logistics work that sustained American forces across the island-hopping Pacific campaign. Project: 218137