MARSHALL ISLANDS
GUN MOTOR CARRIAGE M10, used to blast pillboxes on Kwajalein. This weapon, called a tank destroyer, was mounted on the medium tank chassis and had a 3-inch gun M17 in a semi-open turret, and a .50-caliber machine gun at the rear of the turret for protection against low-flying planes. Six days after the main landings had taken place, Kwajalein was in U.S. hands.
CAROLINE ISLANDS
CONSOLIDATED LIBERATOR HEAVY BOMBERS, B-24’s, raining 500-pound bombs on Truk in the Caroline Islands as part of a two-day strike executed to screen the assault on Eniwetok Atoll in the northwestern Marshalls. The strong enemy bases in the eastern Marshalls, bypassed when the western Marshalls were invaded, were continually harassed by air attack in 1944.
CAROLINE ISLANDS
ENEMY SHIPS ON FIRE, the result of direct hits during the 17-18 February air raid on Truk. During the two-day strike, 270 enemy aircraft and 32 of his ships were destroyed.