Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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Description: | The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ... |
Date: | 09 10 1943 |
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Description: | Crosses in the cemetery at Buna. Buildings and tents are in the background among trees. The American Forces lost 798 soldiers, and the Australians lost 2,7... |
Date: | 01 11 1944 |
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Description: | A soldier is standing on the ramp leading to the camp toilet suspended over the water, with a roll of toilet paper sitting on the edge. On the right is a w... |
Date: | 01 23 1944 |
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Description: | Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Several soldiers can be are in th... |
Date: | 01 23 1944 |
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Description: | Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Many soldiers surround the jeep a... |
Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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Description: | Aussie Military Policeman standing on a Port Moresby main street with his hand raised, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Jeeps and soldiers are on... |
Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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Description: | Gordon Williams, of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Stanley J. Quinn of the Mutual Broadcasting System, pose with two indigenous men in front ... |
Date: | 05 20 1944 |
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Description: | Captain Donald Nicholson of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Major Daniel M. Lewis of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, pose at Royal Air Force station Steeple Morden, locat... |
Date: | 08 28 1944 |
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Description: | View across cobblestone street of a military jeep (marked "PRESS") is parked in front of the Hotel de Nemours, Rennes, France. Driving the jeep is Corporal... |
Date: | 09 11 1944 |
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Description: | View from indoors of a smiling eleven-year-old girl posing in an open window that opens onto the street in Landerneau, France. Robert Doyle, war correspond... |
Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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Description: | Two soldiers in the lower left look at a map. Behind them is what remains of the Brest Post Office. Just under the decorative stone cornice at the top is t... |
Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
Date: | 02 27 1945 |
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Description: | Four indigenous women pose in front of a store on Tutuila in American Samoa. They are all wearing dresses. A woman and children can be seen in the backgrou... |
Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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Description: | A Fita Fita Guard poses in his uniform of red cap, white skivvy shirt and white lava lava (a Samoan kilt). Shoes are not worn. The Fita Fita Guards are a s... |
Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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Description: | Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Fita Fita guard turns out daily at 8:00 a.m. for color raising cer... |
Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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Description: | Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Fita Fita guard turns out daily at 8:00 a.m. for color raising cer... |
Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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Description: | A homemade motorboat on the beach on Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific. Robert Doyle notes that "belly tanks" were used in the boat construction. A buildin... |
Date: | 11 10 1942 |
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Description: | Without nails, wire or rope, indigenous men build a large structure for an American hospital unit headed by Major Stanley Hollenbeck of Milwaukee, Wisconsi... |
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