American Dead Removed From Wakde Island. Greeted by heavy machine gun fire and snipers' bullets from foxholes back from the beach, American invaders met bitter opposition in the invasion of Wakde Island off the north Dutch New Guinea coast on May 18. Here, some of the American dead are moved in litters to a Coast Guard-manned LCM (Landing Craft Medium) for transfer to the mainland for burial. The LCM is in the extreme right foreground in front of the open bow of a Coast Guard-manned LST (Landing Ship Tank), one of 12 participating in the invasion.

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Keywords: 17-a2-212, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg