Photograph
Contrasting Tans on Buster Island
| The caption in the Milwaukee Journal, says it best, "From the far-off Pacific (somewhere on Kwajalein), the picture of Ensign Ray Hanson and Robert Doyle came to The Little Journal. What a contrast in sun tans it provides! Ensign Hanson, formerly of the editorial department of The Journal, is an administrative officer in the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS), and Doyle, The Journal's accredited war correspondent, is doing pieces on Wisconsin boys anywhere he finds them on his long sojourns." What the paper did not reveal, was that both men were having a nude sun bath, this was not apparent because the paper had added black swim trunks to the photo. Both men are holding a metal beverage bottle. A thatched beach shelter and the Pacific Ocean are behind them. The Kwajalein Atoll is in the Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. |
| Image ID: | 100594 |
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| Creation Date: | 02 20 1945 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
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| Collection Name: | Robert Doyle papers, 1935-1974, 1995 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, duplicate |
| Original Format Number: | M99-114, box 8, roll 42, neg 4202 |
| Original Dimensions: | 2.375 x 2.375 inches |
| This image was published in the Milwaukee Journal sometime in March, 1945. The image and article appear on page 261 of the clipping book, Anybody Here From Wisconsin?, a reprint of the scrapbook kept by Robert Doyle's mother. Robert Doyle was a civilian war correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal during World War II, covering the experiences of Wisconsin troops in the 32nd "Red Arrow" Division, an infantry division of the United States Army National Guard. The "Red Arrow" Division consisted mainly of soldiers from Wisconsin and Michigan. |
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