DLA Land and Maritime images

Personnel from the U.S. Army’s Seventh Air Force load supplies onto a landing ship tank for movement to Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands Dec. 23, 1943. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Walter Robinson Jr. fought in the Ellice Islands during World War II. Once seized from the Japanese, the islands became important staging bases to U.S. forces as they moved from west to east a across the central Pacific.

Personnel from the U.S. Army’s Seventh Air Force load supplies onto a landing ship tank for movement to Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands Dec. 23, 1943. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Walter Robinson Jr. fought in the Ellice Islands during World War II. Once seized from the Japanese, the islands became important staging bases to U.S. forces as they moved from west to east a across the central Pacific.

Personnel from the U.S. Army’s Seventh Air Force load supplies onto a landing ship tank for movement to Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands Dec. 23, 1943. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Walter Robinson Jr. fought in the Ellice Islands during World War II. Once seized from the Japanese, the islands became important staging bases to U.S. forces as they moved from west to east a across the central Pacific.

Personnel from the U.S. Army’s Seventh Air Force load supplies onto a landing ship tank for movement to Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands Dec. 23, 1943. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Walter Robinson Jr. fought in the Ellice Islands during World War II. Once seized from the Japanese, the islands became important staging bases to U.S. forces as they moved from west to east a across the central Pacific.