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"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"

"Dick Baxter cutting hair for Bob Casey - Finchhafen"

"Van Reimer - head out of mosquito net - in his cot - Binmaley" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Van Reimer Resting. Sometimes, Photo Section men worked all night, then went to bed after breakfast -- as may have been the case here." ("Darkroom Soldier"…

"Engine change at Lingayen - Bernardo on the hoist" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Changing an Engine. After a certain number of hours, plane engines had to be replaced rather than repaired. Here, Hill documents the derrick and crew preparing to hoist a…