Japanese armor-plated and camouflaged pillboxes set near the shore

Title (Dublin Core): Japanese armor-plated and camouflaged pillboxes set near the shore
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Trenches and fortifications
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Caption: Demolished by a shell from an American warship, this pillbox on the beach at Tarawa shows the sturdy construction of the japanese defenses cracked by U. S. Marines at Gilbert Islands
extracted text (Extract Text): DEMOLISHED by a shell from an American
‘warship, this pillbox on the beach at Tarawa
shows the sturdy construction of the Japa-
nese defenses cracked by the U. S. Marines
in the Gilbert Islands. Supplementing the
large concrete blockhouses inland, armor-
plated pillboxes like this were set near the
shore and camouflaged with sand embank-
ments and fronds from palm trees.
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1944-03
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 3, 1944
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 55
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Lorenzo Chinellato; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): Gilbert Islands; Tarawa; Empire of Japan