Peleliu Protestant Chaplain Rufus W. Oakley, of Milledgeville Ga., holding services within a few hundred yards of Jap positions, well within range of their mortars if they had chosen to have thrown them.
Photographer: McElroy
- Date
- 1944
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- Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States
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- Wikimedia Commons
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