Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the situation well in hand. That goes for anything they tackle -- like this barrage balloon, for example. Special Marine Corps units at Parris Island, South Carolina gain rare proficiency with this new fighting tool that the leathernecks have taken over
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 559.
Tags
Date
01/01/1942
Location
beaufort county
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain