Sign on Tarawa illustrates Marine humor and possible lack of optimism as to duration of war.
- Date
- 1944-06
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,700 × 2,700 pixels
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