Flipping my Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor 2009 calendar over to the month of July yesterday, I see that the poster is a "Buy War Bonds" one featuring soldiers charging with affixed bayonets and Uncle Sam in the clouds waving an American flag and pointing to victory with bombers filling the air.
The picture features a "Water Buffalo" loaded with US Marines churning through the sea bound for the beaches of Tinian Island near Guam, July 1944. There is a machine gun in the front and what appears to be a small turret mounting two more in the back.
DATES IN JULY
July 5, 1945-- Liberation of the Philippines declared
July 10, 1945-- 1,000 bombing raids against Japan begin
July 16, 1945-- first atomic bomb tested in the US
July 19, 1944-- US Marines invade Guam
July 28, 1945-- Japanese submarine sinks the cruiser USS Indianapolis
The Greatest Generation. --Cooter
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