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Task Force Headquarters Mess
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Officers sit down together for a meal at the Task Force Headquarters Mess in the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). One soldier is walking through the rutted mud in the foreground. The jungle is in the background. Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published: "The Elite of the Saidor task force dine here. This is the headquarters officers' mess. They stand in the chow line with mess kits and carry their food to the rough pole tables. When it rains at mealtime the elite get rained on."
January 18, 1944
Doyle, Robert J., 1914-1995
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Catholic Mass at Saidor
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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 the foreground worshipping. Trees are in the...
Wisconsin Artillery Officers
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Wisconsin artillery officers helping direct the shelling of the Japanese on Saidor's west flank (beyond the point in the background). The officers are, (left to right) Major Robert Schultz of Milwa...
Catholic Mass at Saidor
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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 as they worship. Trees are in the backgroun...
