Serving ice cream to marines on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll, March 1944. It had been flown in by F6F fighters. Note TBM “Avenger” in background. Photographed by Lieutenant Junior Grade Wayne Miller, USNR.
The battle for Engebi Island started on January 4, 1944, and the heavy fighting continued until it ended on February 19, with heavy fighting on the rest of Eniwetok atolls cut another three days. This photo would’ve been taken within a few weeks of fighting on Engebi ending.
The picture below is Private Theodore James Miller; an exhausted US Marine exhibiting the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting on Eniwetok. He was later killed in action, at age 19, on 24 March 1944, at Ebon Atoll (not linked because I couldn’t get it to work properly; again, this is after just two days of fighting):
The battle for Engebi Island started on January 4, 1944, and the heavy fighting continued until it ended on February 19, with heavy fighting on the rest of Eniwetok atolls cut another three days. This photo would’ve been taken within a few weeks of fighting on Engebi ending.
The picture below is Private Theodore James Miller; an exhausted US Marine exhibiting the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting on Eniwetok. He was later killed in action, at age 19, on 24 March 1944, at Ebon Atoll (not linked because I couldn’t get it to work properly; again, this is after just two days of fighting):
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