Whoa. This is amazing. Wire recording of the Battle of Kwajalein. The sound guy is from DC, and the commenter is from New Castle, PA. Near where I live and where I vacation. The accent of the commenter and his slang is interesting. Not quite modern Pittsburg or Cleveland. Know what else is interesting? All the bullet snaps from incoming fire. They are at the wrong end of a rifle range. Novel journalism for 1944. Maybe one day they'll bring sound and MOVIE cameras onto the front lines.
My crotchety old neighbor's boat, the USS Rockwall visited the atoll during the war. He wanted to know whey there was a forest of trees under the salt water. It wasn't trees. It was the mast of sunk Japanese ships.
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