Homer L. Twigg IV

Today in 1944, 69 years ago, American forces landed on Kwajalein Atoll et al. within the Marshall Islands. It has been a site of everything from the Nike-Zeus defense shield to the new Peacekeeper system. It was an epic battle. 373 Americans lost their lives, and ~7,400 Japanese.

Then:

Now:

And here’s a false color I made of the battle of Okinawa, a few months later, but was even more epic (and was where my mother, the father Col. Thomas Martin Daly, was born. He was the Commander of Maintenance and Supply. They were sending him to Korea, he got as far as Hawai’i, and they changed orders there, telling him he could bring his family if he wanted. That was 1966.).