The Snapshots in Time Collection
American Troops on Devastated Beachhead During the Battle of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 1944
American troops move across a devastated beachhead on Kwajalein Atoll following the amphibious assault of January-February 1944. Intense pre-invasion naval and aerial bombardment left the landscape cratered and stripped bare, a hallmark of the island-hopping campaign that carried Allied forces across the Central Pacific. Project: 218539