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"Faye Higgins - The smallest man in 17th Photo Lab, holds Russell Price, the largest, to celebrate war's end!"

"17th Photo Section - The War is Over!" Sign reads: "CLOSED Open Next War under New Management" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Ending Metaphor. To interpret the end of military hostilities, Photo Section men revised their sign to show they felt like…

"17th Photo Gunner Earl Powers watches a swimmer in the ocean at the foot of the cliff by 17th Camp on Ie Shima"

"Over looking tents of 17th Recon camp at Ie Shima - looking North - great cloud picture"

"Low level view of conference table in Priest's area at the big Catholic Church in (blank) Note legs are on a plank all around chairs must straddle" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Detail: Nara Wood Table. Calasiao church wardens gave Hill a tour of the…

"S/Sgt Nicastro, 17th Photo Section - looks out of a Photo Section tent door at Dulag Leyte. Jan 1945"

"LST being loaded"

"Cooks cutting turkey - Christmas 1944 at Dulag"

"Soldier reading on deck of LST 626, Dec 1944" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Reading Onboard. Crossing the Pacific, soldiers frequently had hours and hours to spend on deck at ease. As pictured here on another ship a year later, Hill and his fellow…

"Many ships of convoy to Mindoro late Dec 1944 - Mostly Liberty Ships"