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Date Posted:06/30/09 14:34:07
Taken during one of the mock amphibious landings staged at Chicago. That's Lakeshore Drive in the background, with a large crowd on hand to watch. A small flotilla of private boats waits outside the marked area where the landings were staged. An F-4 Corsair is flying overhead, and TNT charges buried on the beach were set off to simulate bomb explosions or explosions from "offshore bombardment."
A crew usually arrived in an invasion city a couple of days in advance to set up the beach, which included machine gun nests, pillboxes, barbed wire entanglements, and other fortifications, they also arranged the charges. While in Milwaukee, "hoodlums stole the TNT charges from the beach, and the Schlitz Brewery hosted a beer party."
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