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"Muddy path to the mess hall - Finschhafen" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Muck and the Mess Hall. Communications and Photo Section men lived furthest from the mess hall. To eat regular meals, soldiers had to negotiate six inches of slippery and sticky…

"17th Photo Section floor panels being labelled - built at Finsch"

"Tent occupants! sign - Dobodura" Sign reads: "The Rainblows Inn - F/Sgt Rixham, T/Sgt Porreca, S/Sgt Lake, S/Sgt Baril" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Tent Frames and Fine Addresses. Before traditional planed lumber (dunnage) became available from ship…

"KP at the Coleman Immersion water heaters"

"Barber shop at Finsch" Sign on shop: "Beauty Salon" Sign on tree near shop: "This is only a picture. If you want the real stuff, take Atabrine" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Haircuts and Pills. Some enterprising soldier of the Milne Bay base performed…

"82nd Recon area - Nadzab, Papua, New Guinea"

"Officer's tents at Finschhafen"

"Souvenier hunters - Rising Sun parts of Jap airplane wing" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Wreckage at Hollandia. During the period 30 March through 3 April, [Hill's Fifth Air Force bombers] destroyed or damaged over 300 Japanese aircraft, most of them on…

"Sgt Bob Casey eating canned pineapple - Hollandia" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Bob Casey. Hill catches his friend, formerly a photo lab technician and now a photo gunner, feasting on a canned treat -- sweet sliced Australian pineapple." ("Darkroom…

"Waiting in the mud - to board ship at Hollandia"