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Show Dress Rehearsal for Solomon Assault ti I "A r J f, P ' ''J v v I Before the hard-hitting V. S. marines stormed the Solomon islands they went through maneuvers that shaped them for this particularly tough assignment. In picture at top a land mine hurls mud and sea water high into the air as the marines land troops and stores after establishing estab-lishing a bridgehead in the South Sea Islands, where U. S. forces and the Japs have been exchanging heavy counter-blows. Below: Unloading a heavy gun, part of the equipment of a landing party in the South Sea islands. |