"Water Buffalo" Line Up for Invasion of Cape Sansapor. At an American base in the South Pacific, a line of amphibious tanks (called water buffalo) awaits the order to roll into the belly of a Coast Guard-manned LST for the invasion of Cape Sansapor at the western end of Dutch New Guinea. In silhouette, Coast Guardsman Robert Campbell, coxswain, of Los Angeles, Calif., stands guard. The capture of Cape Sansapor completed the American jump-by-jump sweep along the northern New Guinea coast, which earlier knocked the Japs out at Hollandia, Wakde, and Biak.

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