Jersey Photographer "Shot" the Marshalls. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Edwin H. Latcham helped bring a vivid pictorial record of the war in the Pacific to the American public, when he made a remarkable series of invasion pictures of the conquest of the strategic Marshall Islands. Aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport, he covered the landings and battle action which wrested Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls, Majura Island and other strongholds from the Japanese. In this picture, Latcham is shown beside enemy equipment made in Tokyo. A Chief Photographer's mate in the Coast Guard, La
Jersey Photographer "Shot" the Marshalls. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Edwin H. Latcham helped bring a vivid pictorial record of the war in the Pacific to the American public, when he made a remarkable series of invasion pictures of the conquest of the strategic Marshall Islands. Aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport, he covered the landings and battle action which wrested Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls, Majura Island and other strongholds from the Japanese. In this picture, Latcham is shown beside enemy equipment made in Tokyo. A Chief Photographer's mate in the Coast Guard, Latcham is peacetime resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Haddonfield High School.
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Keywords: 17-a2-218, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
