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Leyte Local Draws Water 2
"Filipino Lady drawing water from shallow well - Leyte" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Water From the Well. Near the soldiers' camp, a wooden box formed the head of a shallow fresh water well. To reach the water, Filipinos lowered a can on a bamboo pole,…
Leyte Local Draws Water 1
"Filipino Lady drawing water from shallow well with can on a stick - Leyte"
Leyte Local Braiding Thatch 3
"Weaving palm thatch" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Weaving Palm Fronds. Under tearful protest, Juan Berden's daughter demonstrates the process of making traditional wall thatch. After splitting a palm frond in half, she weaves the leaves together in a…
Leyte Local Braiding Thatch 2
"Thatch weaver"
Leyte Local Braiding Thatch 1
"Filipino persons braiding halves of palm branches to make siding thatch - for mess hall of 17th Tact. Recon Sqdn camp at Dulag"
Leyte Foxhole Pals 2
"Allan Countryman and Fred Hill sitting on cover of their 'foxhole"
Leyte Foxhole Pals 1
"Walter Peters (medic) Allan Countryman (Photo Lab) by fox hole entrance by our tent at Dulag, Leyte"
Leyte Foxhole Group 2
"Tent mates pose on fox hole cover. Van Reimer, Dick Baxter, Al Countryman, Walt Peters, Fred Hill, and Ed Bernardo in front." All Photo section men except Peters who was a medic" From "Darkroom Soldier": "On the Foxhole at Dulag. After a few days…
Leyte Foxhole Group 1
"Photo Section tent members: Van Reimer - Dick Baxter - A J Countryman - Walter Peters (a medic) - Fred Hill - in front: Ed Bernardo. On our foxhole cover by our tent. 0445 GG was 17th Sqdn Code on all our items"
Leyte Foxhole Balloons
"17th Recon Sqdn men - Al Countryman, Walt Peters, Ed Bernardo, Fred Hill find that condoms make big balloons" Unidentified soldier in foxhole.