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English: U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville (one of the Solomon Islands) in World War II. Japanese forces tried infiltrating the U.S. lines at night; at dawn, the U.S. soldiers would clear them out. In this picture, infantrymen are advancing in the cover of an M4 Sherman tank.
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U. S. Army soldiers in fighting Japanese forces in Bougainville during WW2

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M4 Sherman

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March 1944

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