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Show Coastguardman 'Flagging' the Sarmi Invaders v Blf lllllilltffii IlliiiliwSsw KjP 3 i H y"v - '-r ' ! 1 Coastguardman B. W. Long, coxswain of Detroit, Mich., directs Incoming LSTs to their beaching positions posi-tions with semaphore signals from the shore at Sarml, on the north shore of Dutch New Guinea. Capture of Wakde Island and Sarml beachhead after stiff Japanese army opposition brought two more vital landing strips into American hands on their steady thrust westward toward China and the Philippines and that much nearer to Tokyo and the final victory over the Japs. Heavy naval bombardment blasted Sarml. |