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LC-Lot-803-17: Battle of Attu, May 11-29, 1943

LC-Lot-803-17: Aleutian Islands Campaign, June 1942 - August 1943. Battle of Attu, May 11, 1943. Seabees on Adak make Attu unsafe for Japanese. The base-building “Can Do” men of the Navy, Seabees of the Construction Battalion, work in all kinds of weather to establish the far flung advance posts from which the war is being carried to the Japanese. Photo caption: Road Block Gets Seabee Attention. Seabees of the Navy’s Construction Battalion examine a piece of rock, the type used for building roads at the American base on Adak Island. U.S. Navy photograph, released June 3, 1943. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2015/11/06).
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Caption: Aleutian Islands Campaign, June 1942 - August 1943. Battle of Attu, May 11, 1943. Seabees on Adak make Attu unsafe for Japanese. The base-building “Can Do” men of the Navy, Seabees of the Construction Battalion, work in all kinds of weather to establish the far flung advance posts from which the war is being carried to the Japanese. Photo caption: Road Block Gets Seabee Attention. Seabees of the Navy’s Construction Battalion examine a piece of rock, the type used for building roads at the American base on Adak Island. U.S. Navy photograph, released June 3, 1943. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2015/11/06).
Accession #: LC-Lot-803-17
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  • World War II 1939-1945
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