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An albatross carcass bursts with plastic

An albatross carcass bursts with plastic

Crystal clear water in Midway's lagoon

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A precocious white tern (Gygis alba) chick

Food plants grows in Midway's mydroponic garden

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Crystal clear water in Midway's lagoon

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Yellow and purple coral grow in Midway's fringing reef

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An albatross carcass bursts with plastic

Close-up of a white tern (Gygis alba)

Food plants grows in Midway's mydroponic garden

A precocious white tern (Gygis alba) chick

This is another white tern (Gygis alba) "nest"

An albatross carcass bursts with plastic

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) egg

A pile of dead ironwood trunks is burned in the Boneyard

A tiny Laysan duckling (Anas laysanensis) swimming

Red-footed boobies (Sula sula) and great frigatebirds (Fregata minor) gliding over Eastern Island

Juvenile gray-backed tern (Onychoprion lunatus) in flight

A wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) chick is barely visible under the rubble its nest has been built under

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Falls of Clyde.Honolulu.

Scene on Green Beach 2, at 0840, D-Day. Sgt. Matjasic was wounded while taking these pictures. 15 June, 1944.

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Iao Valley State Park Maui.

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Blue Basin in Central OR

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Blue Basin in Central OR

Tractors and tanks landing the first day. Wounded being evacuated and men digging in for the first night. Saipan. 15 June, 1944.

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Amphibious tractor armed with two .50 calibre machine guns and a 37mm gun. Guadalcanal .3 March, 1944.

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Marine officers talk to scouts up ahead of them over walkie-talkie on Green Beach 2. Saipan. 15 June, 1944.

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"Back to the hills" was the order, and "Nanny" the goat and her two kids had to bow before the needs of war. Saipan. January, 1945.

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SC 364560 - Marines on patrol in jungle on 1st day on Cape Gloucester, New Britain.

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Blue Basin in Central OR

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C-915 - Showing the front view of a P-51 with two pilots repairing the top of the plane. Alaska.

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SC 171520 - First wave of assault groping its way shore through a curtain of enveloping fog. Attu, Aleutians. 1943.

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Swing Shift? It appears that one Marine is relieving another on the beach at Saipan but they are really crawling, under enemy fire, to their assigned positions.

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Pin-up girl influence is apparent on many of the Army's Liberator bombers in the pictures of scantily-clad girls on the sides.

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3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines, and oxen pulling their ammunition, march along road toward Jap positions. Saipan. June, 1944.

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Marines of the assault wave on the beach. Stretchers have already been brought into play, although the battle is only a few minutes old.

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SC 196082-S - Troops of the 12th Cavalry move from the beach, past splintered trees and fires caused by the heavy bombardment preceding their landing on Leyte Island in the Philippines.

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USS North Carolina (BB-55) underway in the Gilbert islands, November 1943

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A Marine machine gun nest on Bougainville, near Hill 600.

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SC 190528 - WO Bernard C. Simons, Fargo, ND., left, and Sg…

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Dublon island Truk aerial photo c1945

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With his Browning Automatic Rifle ready for action, a Mari…

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Either a long-billed or short-billed dowitcher

Midway Atoll Naval Air Facility (NAF) sign

'aki'aki grass (Sporobolus virginicus) outplanting near the historic cablehouse

Purple coral grows in Midway's fringing reef

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A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 taxis from the NAF Hangar to the runway

A moonbow (rainbow formed by moonlight) over Officers' Row

Portrait of a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Several brown noddy (Anous stolidus) nests

The Midway fire engine escorts a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 to the runway

A curious Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

A ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) perches on a seawall

Portrait of a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Grumman JRF Goose is hoisted aboard USS Long Island (ACV-1) off Palmyra Island, 19 April 1943 (80-G-66769)

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A precocious white tern (Gygis alba) chick

A white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) chick

The path to the Clipper House dining hall

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For white terns (Gygis alba), this is what constitutes a nest

Looking into the eye of a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Bunchgrass (Eragrostic variabilis) cuttings in Midway's shadehouse await outplanting

Juvenile Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Lt. George H. Cannon Medal of Honor plaque on Midway Atoll

A sleepy Laysan duckling (Anas laysanensis)

Yellow coral grows in Midway's fringing reef

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Extra fuzzy white tern (Gygis alba) juvenile

Looking into the eye of a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Looking east from the back of the NAF Hangar

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A precocious white tern (Gygis alba) chick

SC 171693 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Checking names of Army casualties just returned from the Solomon Islands is Pfc. George R. Sister of Irwin, Penn. 23 January, 1943.

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SC 171692 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Casualty from the Solomon Islands talk cheerfully with sailor as he is brought in by Higgins Boat to the docks at Noumea, New Caledonia, where he will be placed in a hospital.

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A bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) surrounded by Atlantic canaries (Serinus canaria). Midway is home to the only self-sustaining population of yellow canaries outside of the Canary Islands.

SC 195584-S - Members of E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 7th Cav. Regt., engaging the Japs at close range, 100 yards inland from White Beach, Leyte Island, P.I.

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A juvenile brown booby (Sula leucogaster) in flight

Surfer Maui.

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SC 337257 - Men hauling guns up the slopes of Lily Beach. Kiska. 16 August, 1943.

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C-882 - Lt. Frederick Moore Jr. of Charlotte, N.C., who was awarded the Air Medal. Aleutians.

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SC 335370 - Illinois men watch other Illini make biscuits, following the battle on Saipan.

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SC 179456 - During the American drive on Chichagof Bay, our forces came across groups of Japanese soldiers 20 or 40 in a group;

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Planning the attack: Here, the Marine commanding officer of a unit about to attack goes over the plans with his platoon leaders and squad leaders.

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Channel Islands National Park, Cliffs of Santa Cruz Island

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Seringapatam, James Hunter, 1804

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Blue Basin in Central OR

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Blue Basin at Fossil Beds NM in OR

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Planning the attack: Here, the Marine commanding officer of a unit about to attack goes over the plans with his platoon leaders and squad leaders.

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General's son: Lt. Col. A. A. Vandegrift, son of Marine Corps Commandant, relaxes at the frontlines after a skirmish with the Japs. Saipan. June, 1944.

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