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Photographs can be art, but the camera itself has no emotion. These pictures by Marine Corps artists who fight first, then draw what they see and feel, provide a telling human touch to the pictorial coverage of the South Pacific phase of this war.
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Marines fight from captured Japanese machine gun nest on bloody Tarawa.
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"Hitting the deck" as vengeful Japanese planes strafe the beach at Cape Gloucester.
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"Highway" on Cape Gloucester. Speed-sixty slips an hour . . . Or war in the glamorous South Sea Isles.
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This one depicts the ever-present danger of Japanese snipers.