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"Some of the best ocean swimming in the S. Pacific was off a barge at the edge of a coral shelf at Biak. Thigh deep out to the barge - 20' deep on other" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Swim Time. Before showers were set up, soldiers first bathed in fresh…

"1st Parachute mission in S. Pacific - 503rd drop at Nadzab Papua New Guinea (1st Combat drop)"

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

"A small, smoking volcano crater - Somewhere in the South Pacific Islands - Taken by 17th Photo Gunner enroute home, perhaps from Rabaul" "New Britain, Rabaul, 1943"

"Street scene - east-side 7th Ave. S. between Division and Alder Sts. - Elgin, Oregon - June 16 to July 3, 1914 - From left to right: Jail [wood shack looking building], whorehouse [Large, white facade with two small windows on either side of the…