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B-25, Engine Change 1
"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…
Tags: 17th Recon Sqdn, B-25 Change, Crew, Darkroom, Derrick, Engine, Hoist, Sgts, Soldier quote
Bob Casey, Photo Gunner 1
"Sgt Bob Casey - of 17th Tactical Recon Sqdn, poses with a belt of 50 cal machine gun ammo. Lingayen Strip" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Photo Gunners. Two men in Hill's Photo Reconnaissance section, his friends Sgt Earl Powers and Sgt Bob Casey…
Bob Casey, Photo Gunner 2
"Sgt Bob Casey - of 17th Tactical Recon Sqdn, poses with a belt of 50 cal machine gun ammo. Lingayen Strip"
Urbiztondo Fiesta 3
"A festival at near by Urbistondo including a street dance - (with ruts in the dried mud) Here is a chaperone mother and two girls with Sgt Earl Powers of the 17th Tact. Recon Sqdn Photo section"
Tags: Chaperone, Dressed up, Fiesta, Filipinos, Flowers, Groups, Huts, Mother, Palm trees, Sgts
War is Over! Celebrations 2
"The War is Over! Off comes the mustache" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Shaven Clean. As Hill wrote Martha, to celebrate the end of the war, a 'couple of boys who had prodigious beards were mobbed by others who produced soap and razors and began to shave…
Tags: Darkroom, Sgts, Shaved, Shaving cream, Soldier quote, Tents, Uniforms
41st Division, Mortar Training 2
"41st Division - August 1940 - Platoon Sgt Bill Gamble demonstrates 60mm trench mortar - on maneuvers at Hunter-Liggett military reservation, California"
Tags: 186th Infantry, 41st Division, 60mm, Mortar, Packs, Platoon sgt, Sergeants, Sgts, Soldiers, Training, Trench mortar, Uniforms