National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Guam_6-6-7-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Guam, U.S. Territory [48-DPA-SOI_K_Guam_6-6-7-07__DI11482.JPG]

A US Navy (USN) Landing Craft, Air Cushioned (LCAC) arrives at its landing point at Inner Apra Harbor, Guam. The LCAC along with its support ship is here to participate in Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Palau_6-7-9-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Palau Islands, Republic of Palau [48-DPA-SOI_K_Palau_6-7-9-07__DI12745.JPG]

World War II – Marshall Islands

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Palau_6-7-9-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Palau Islands, Republic of Palau [48-DPA-SOI_K_Palau_6-7-9-07__DI13260.JPG]

Bring Out The Wounded From Eniwetok

[No caption entered] (U.S. Air Force Number 64476AC)

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Guam_6-6-7-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Guam, U.S. Territory [48-DPA-SOI_K_Guam_6-6-7-07__DI11591.JPG]

US Army (USA) Private First Class (PFC) Joshua McComas, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (2/27) Charlie Company, 25th Infantry Division (ID) [Light], Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (HI), gives an idea of the heat and humidity after applying camouflage in the tropical environment of Guam. PFC McComas unit is here participating in Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Majuro_6-11-12-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Majuro Atoll, of the Republic of Marshall Islands [48-DPA-SOI_K_Majuro_6-11-12-07__DI14768.JPG]

A Navy diver from Moible Diving Salvage Unit One tracks a survey line past the stack on the sunken World War II Japanese merchant ship KIZUGAWA MARU during Project Sea Mark, a four year undersea survey and mapping study of naval historic sites. The study is being conducted in conjunction with the U.S. Park Service's Submerged Cultrual Resource Unit

Battle damage on a Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT), that was left after the Battle of Peleliu during World War Two on the island of Peleliu. Photograph taken as part of Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, 1ST Marine Air Wing, Okinawa, Japan, and 3rd Marines 7th Battalion, 29 Palms, California, participated in KOA THUNDER on the island of Guam from July 9 to July 14. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the Marine Corps ability to deploy in the South Pacific from places other than Okinawa, Japan