Scrapbook from the service of Frederick W. and Frederick B. Smith : Scrapbook 1944.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: Scrapbook with brown covers with image of a Dutch boy and girl and the word "Photographs" below them. Mostly Photographs and postcards with some occupation currency bills. "Fred Smith. 1944 Tinenian [Tinian"]. Honolulu Pearl Harbor, Farwell Party 1943. Pictures of New Zealand Natives from 1943, Fiji and New Caledonia Natives from 1944. Photographs of Japanese Prisoners [of War] from 1944. Pictures of New Caledonia natives posing with American Sailors. Portraits of New Calidonia [Caledonia] women. New Caledonia natives in fishing boats in 1944. Two American sailors with group of New Caledonia children in front of hut houses in 1944. Photo of sunken Japanese ship from D-Day on beach on Tinenian [Tinian"] Island taken on June 28 [194"]. Photo from D-Day on Tinenian [Tinian] White Beach. Photograph of the Tinenian [Tinian"]Coast in 1944. View of tropical jungle with graves of soldiers on Oakinowa [Okinawa] in 1945. Photographs of destroyed Japanese tanker Ewijema. Kill the Japs sign: "Admiral Halsey says "Kill japs, kill japs. Kill more japs"! You will help kill the yellow bastards if you do your job well." Photographs of sunken Japanese cargo ships near the shore of some tropical island. Group Photograph of four American sailors with Japanese naval gun. An American airfield with P-63 Kingcobras on some tropical island. View at the landing beach with two LST (Landing Ships, Tank), one of them in fire, with Jeep, Dodge WC-54 Ambulance, and LCVP on the shore. View at Japanese aircraft with smoke (possibly Zero) shot down over the landing beach. Japanese Zero floating near the shore of some tropical island. Two American soldiers walking among wrecks of Japanese aircrafts on some airfield. US Navy land base with two SBDs (Dauntless) on runway on some tropical island. "Kill the Bastards!" sign over a dirt road in coconut palm forest: "Kill the Bastards! Down this road marched one of the regiments of the United States Army knights serving the queen of battles. Twenty of their wounded in litters were bayoneted, shot and clubbed by the yellow bellies. Kill the Bastards!" Wreck of Japanese bomber plane (possibly Mitsubishi G4M Betty) on some tropical island. Four pictures of death Japanese soldiers. Japanese howitzer with anti-aircraft gun in the coconut palm tree forest. Pacific Islander soldier with decapitated head of Japanese soldier. Two portraits of Japanese officers, one with the goggles is possibly an aviator. View of American military cemetery somewhere in the Pacific. Photograph of three P-40 Warhawks in-flight. Possibly Seabees in front of large tents. Seven Photograph from India: Indian villagers, Indians on the roads and two pictures of Hindu temples. Postcards with motives from the life of New Caledonian and Fiji natives. Two large Photographs of American sailors with women at a dance. Postcards of Wellington, the capital c Zealand. Two large Photographs with possibly New Zealand whalers cutting up whale and a fishing village on the coast. Postcard of Suva, the capital city of Fiji. Portraits of Fuji women. Two Japanese business cards("). Photograph of five young Japanese women in kimonos. Three small Photographs with Torii gates. Two small Photographs of Japanese Prisoners of War including women and children standing behind barbed wire. Small Photograph of two small Japanese tanks. Japanese occupation currency. Japanese Military Currency. USS Enterprise (CV 6) off Saipan in June 1944. Aircraft carrier Enterprise and battlewagon Utah (") [sunk in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941!] on Saipan June 12, 1944. Japanese prisoners in stockade [on] Tinenian [Tinian] July 12, 1945. USS Gen. Grant [AP 29]. "My own private fox hole on White Beach, Tinenian [Tinian on] June 29, 1945. Japanese shrine on Ewegema [Iwo Jima"]. Destruction of Naha City of Japanese [on Okinawa]. Japanese fox hole on Tinenian [Tinian]. Two Japanese tanks knocked out on Oakinow [Okinawa"]. Servicemen in Tinian in 1944.".

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