6-11-11
Same day, same beach as the last shot. I like this wider view, because you can see more of the ship.
Several readers have told me they remember their dads telling them that the ship’s Marines stood guard on deck, rifles in hand, on the lookout for sharks whenever the men got a chance to swim. My father never told me that. However, he did tell me that under no circumstance could they dive off the ship – and if they were caught, they would be court martialed. As you can see in this picture, the boys did not always behave.