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Enemy Gun Emplacement (Nafutan Point at Saipan)

A Marine walks by a damage gun emplacement
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Description: Painting, Watercolor on Paper; by Robert Benney; 1944; Unframed Dimensions 23H X 32W
Accession #: 88-159-AO as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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This shore battery was captured by the Japanese at British Samoa and moved to Saipan. Pictured here are a couple of Marines cautiously checking the rubble around the enemy gun emplacement knocked out by our naval guns.

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