Japanese armor-plated and camouflaged pillboxes set near the shore

Titolo: Japanese armor-plated and camouflaged pillboxes set near the shore
Oggetto: en Technology; en Trenches and fortifications
Article Title and/or Image Caption: 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: 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.
Lingua: eng
Copertura temporale: World War II
Data di rilascio: 1944-03
pagine: 55
Diritti: Public Domain (Google digitized)
Sorgente: Google Books
Archived by: Lorenzo Chinellato; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Copertura territoriale: Gilbert Islands; Tarawa; Empire of Japan