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"Girls at river - bathing"

"McGuire Airdrome overview of Mindoro air strip facilities" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Invading Mindoro. Moving north from Leyte to establish airfields closer to Manila and Luzon, the Allies chose to invade Mindoro, a mountainous, oval-shaped island,…

"Rice hulling mortar & pestle at small island off Mindoro"

"Sugar Plantation narrow guage Rail Road engine house tender of engine (steam) no. 8 in center stall" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Locomotive #8. During pre-war farming, these engines hauled raw sugar cane harvested on the southwest plains to the mill.…

"Sugar Mill building with heavy tractors parked along side - Somewhere on Mindoro"

"Sugar Mill building area on Mindoro - some abandoned steam traction engines" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Abandoned Steam Tractors. After the Japanese invasion of Mindoro in February, 1942, operations apparently stopped at the Mindoro Sugar Cane…

"Sugar Mill on Mindoro P.I."

"Sugar Mill buildings"

"Sugar Mill buildings" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Mill and Warehouse. In 1908, Americans bought the 55,000 acre estate of San Jose and set up the Mindoro Sugar Company. After years of Filipino protests against U.S. ownership, the company sold to…

"Company owned homes for sugar mill workers on Mindoro"