The Snapshots in Time Collection
Servicemen at Equipment Position in Smoke-Hazed Battle Landscape, Kwajalein
Helmeted American servicemen work amid a smoke-hazed, debris-strewn landscape on Kwajalein Atoll during World War II. The intense pre-invasion bombardment of January 1944 left the terrain scarred and the air thick with smoke and dust as troops secured and rebuilt the atoll during Operation Flintlock. Project: 218539