Historic Photos
Taroa, Maloelap Atoll, World War II

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Photo #: 80-G-347131

Emaciated Japanese Naval Personnel


Photographed at a Japanese hospital in the Marshall Islands, 15 September 1945. They show the effects of the blockade and constant bombardment of "bypassed" Japanese-held islands in the central Pacific over the last year-and-a-half of World War II.
Location is probably Wotje or Maloelap Atoll.
Photographed by Photographer's Mate First Class Louis Lazarow, of Naval Air Base, Majuro.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

 
Photo #: NH 52661

USS Indiana (BB-58)


Steaming with Task Force 58.1 on 27 January 1944, en route to attack Taroa Island airfield, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Taken by a USS Enterprise (CV-6) photographer.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

 
Photo #: 80-G-222923

USS Indiana (BB-58)


Steaming with Task Force 58.1 on 27 January 1944, en route to attack Taroa Island airfield, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Taken by a USS Enterprise (CV-6) photographer.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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Bibliographic citation for this document

Taroa, Maloelap Atoll, World War II
URL: http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/WWII_Pix/Taroa.html

CONTACT:
Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Institute of Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, P.O.Box 789, Albury NSW 2640, Australia.
e-mail: dspennemann@csu.edu.au


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