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32 and 10
By: TRGodwin Date: July 27, 2020, 3:50 pm
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Don't mean to wear you out Gunny, but anything here that would
give you a clue as to what beach this was? #32 is in line with
my research.
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Re: 32 and 10
By: gunnygp Date: July 28, 2020, 11:54 am
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It is off about the center of Red Beach 2 about half-way between
the stone jetty where LVT-2 #2 and LVT-2 #9 landed and the main
pier. Somewhere I have an aerial that shows them as you see
them.
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Re: 32 and 10
By: TRGodwin Date: July 28, 2020, 1:26 pm
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Thanks! Much appreciated...
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Re: 32 and 10
By: gunnygp Date: August 24, 2020, 11:36 am
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Note the reader between two pillboxes and the large tree with
the amtracks in the background brought close by the camera
optics. The yellow line shows his direction of view with tow of
the three tractors you show at the far right. The third is out
of frame to the right.[img]
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Re: 32 and 10
By: gunnygp Date: August 24, 2020, 11:40 am
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Hopefully this image shows. It is the aerial I mentioned but now
showing the paper reader's line of sight to the tractors at the
far right. Two of the three show but the third is out of
frame.[img]
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Re: 32 and 10
By: TRGodwin Date: August 29, 2020, 9:35 am
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Great pictures, Gunny. Thanks. Definitely the ones. I guess
where I fell short was imagining that it was where they met
their end. Not impossible I guess but they could have been
brought there and just abandoned too? I've seen 10 in at least
one other picture.
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Re: 32 and 10
By: gunnygp Date: August 29, 2020, 1:06 pm
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Abandoned and shifted around it seems by the current military
occupants of the island at the time.
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