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503rd Parachute Infantry 4
"Signal Corps Photo. 503rd RCT members in C-47 hooked to static line ready to jump - Sgt Albert Baldwin of Steubenville, Ohio leads the jump in first positition - Signal Corps original, from Lantern Slide from Bob Flynn - fairly sharp"
Earl Powers, Muddy Shoes
"Earl Powers rubbing mud from his shoes at Hollandia" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Hollandia Mud. In April, 1942, Japanese forces landed at Hollandia on the New Guinea coast unopposed, but on April 22, 1944, 'surprise landings by U.S. troops were made…
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"
Ft. Lewis, Maneuvers 2
"Maneuvers at Fort Lewis - July 1940 - Sgt Eugene Winters - Sgt Jack Hendrickson (shaving)"
Ft. Lewis, Maneuvers 1
"Fort Lewis Maneuvers - July 1940 - National Guard - Sgt Bill Gamble, Sgt Gordon Brown and Sgt Bert Burke study a map on a maneuver exercise"
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…
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"
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"
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 in Rocky Stream
"Sgt Bob Casey - We were out to a farm (with the Photo Section Jeep) to buy corn from a local farmer"