Coast Guardsman Land Aussies in Balikpapan Invasion. (First in a series of 2 photos). A Coast Guard combat photographer, standing erect in the stern of an LCVP, snaps Australian troops as they storm ashore in the first assault wave to hit Balikpapan on the southeast coast of oil-rich Borneo. Heavy black smoke from a burning oil well rolls over the beachhead, shattered by preinvasion blasting from the sea and air. Jap mortar fire raked the beach at intervals. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Gerald C. Anker, of 437 North Sycamore, Los Angeles, took this remarkable picture of his fellow lensman,
Coast Guardsman Land Aussies in Balikpapan Invasion. (First in a series of 2 photos). A Coast Guard combat photographer, standing erect in the stern of an LCVP, snaps Australian troops as they storm ashore in the first assault wave to hit Balikpapan on the southeast coast of oil-rich Borneo. Heavy black smoke from a burning oil well rolls over the beachhead, shattered by preinvasion blasting from the sea and air. Jap mortar fire raked the beach at intervals. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Gerald C. Anker, of 437 North Sycamore, Los Angeles, took this remarkable picture of his fellow lensman, James L. Lonergan of 229 Midway Oval, Poquonock Bridge, Conn.
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Photo credit: © NB/USC / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 17-a2-218, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
