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Military ambulance, fire & tow trucks parked at one end of runway under construction at Mullinnix Field a new American air base being built following the defeat of Japanese troops on the Tarawa Atoll (note steamrollers at work).
Location:Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands
Date taken:March 1944
Photographer:J. R. Eyerman
Size:1218 x 1280 pixels (16.9 x 17.8 inches)

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