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- Collection: Fred Hill World War II Photographs
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Hollandia Native Homes 3
"Native homes on stilts over water. Ship moving 17th Sqdn and others - to Biak - layed over several days at Hollandia. Fred Hill went ashore with Merch. Marine pig boat"
Hollandia Native Homes 2
"Humbolt Bay Local Homes" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Native Homes, Humboldt Bay. Hill and two other Photo Section men persuaded an officer on the Russell Sage that they needed to document 'squadron history.' Accepting this ruse, the captain allowed…
Hollandia Native Homes 1
"Native home and outrigger in Harbor at Hollandia"
Japanese Ammo Dump 2
"Fred Hill in Jap Ammo dump holding Anti Aircraft shell equivalent to 90mm" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Lethal Beauty. Powers photographed Hill as he studied a 90 mm long range anti-aircraft shell." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Earl Powers, Changing Bag
"Sgt Earl Powers using a light-proof changing bag to re-load his camera" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Changing Bag. To remove an exposed roll of film and install a new roll in his Kodak 3-A, Sgt Powers crouches beside a Hollandia base road and…
Japanese Ammo Dump 1
"Fred Hill in a Japanese Ammo dump"
Japanese Heavy Equipment 2
"Heavy equipment tractors at a Japanese supply point at Hollandia. Note - 2 radiators - one on each side of the engine"
Japanese Heavy Equipment 1
"Jap Prime Mover tractor in an assembly of such heavy equipment at Hollandia - Dutch New Guinea"
Sign, Atabrine 2
"Medic's signs reminding men to take Atabrine - Anti-Malaria pills - 'Remember this?" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Remember This. Signs by the 263rd Medical Battalion urged all soldiers to faithfully take Atabrine, the bitter yellow anti-malaria pill.…
Finchhaffen Mosquito Abatement 8
"Bob Casey between two local New Guinea men 'Mata' and 'Moto' who worked for mosquito abatement to spray kerosine on standing water puddles"