LST-68 at Oro Bay, New Guinea, with US Marine casualties returning from Cape Gloucester, New Britain being assisted into WC54 ambulances, 8 Jan 1944

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Caption     LST-68 at Oro Bay, New Guinea, with US Marine casualties returning from Cape Gloucester, New Britain being assisted into WC54 ambulances, 8 Jan 1944 ww2dbase
Date 8 Jan 1944
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Army Signal Corps
Identification Code   SC-186801
 
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Photos on Same Day 8 Jan 1944
Colorized By WW2DB     Colorized with Adobe Photoshop
 
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Photo Size 3,556 x 2,966 pixels



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1. Richard David Greene says:
9 Jan 2022 09:18:52 AM

LST's could be today useful delivering to famine and other disaster scenes, food, water, trucks, entire medic clinics, rescue boats, and where violence is a problem, adequately armed peacekeepers. REVIVE LST'S -- why not!

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