Marine Shoots on a Japanese Pill Box, Tarawa, November 1943
"Picking Them Off-Taking the slim protection that a blasted tree affords this Marine picks off the Japs in a pill box. A Jap in a pill box is a very small target as he must be shot through the small opening he uses to sight through but that didn't bother this Marine on Tarawa."

From the Julian C. Smith Collection (COLL/202), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections

OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH

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