Japanese "Pill Box" 1

Japanese "Pill Box" 1

Outdoors

"A Japanese fortified 'pill box.' The howitzer has had the breech blown out as the position was abandoned." From "Darkroom Soldier": "Ending in a Pill Box. Another in his series on destroyed Japanese armament, Hill records here a Japanese 75 mm howitzer with the breech perhaps intentionally destroyed as the gunnery crew abandoned their position on Bloody Ridge. 'Conflicting information provides a total of 4,700 Japanese killed and 220 captured on Biak through August 20...The remaining Japanese were without hope of succor. They could choose surrender, death by combat during Allied mopping up operations, death by disease, death by suicide, or death by starvation." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)

Hill, Fred

1944

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