Biak Camp, Water Tank
Military vehicles
Naval ships
Water tanks
"Moving big water tank onto supporting frame - for gravity feed to Kitchen and showers. Island of Biak - Dutch New Guinea 17th Tact. Recon Sqdn" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Water Suppliers. To create a gravity fed water supply for mess hall and showers, unidentified Utilities Section men winch a water tank up to its base." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
7/25/1944
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2010.1.273
Latrine Assembly Detail 1
Military life
Military unforms
Naval ships
Jones, Clifford
Kapp, John
McNutt, Melburn
Nasca, John
Newquist, Herman
"A detail of men have just moved a latrine seat box into position over a pit that required dynamite to dig. The box is a 10 holer - two rows of 5, back to back. A V-10? 17th Recon Sqdn" From left to right: John Kapp, John Nasca, Clifford Jones, Unknown, Melburn McNutt, Herman Newquist
Hill, Fred
8/8/1944
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2010.1.297
Biak Natives, Long Canoe
Native peoples
Naval ships
"Two Liberty Ships and an LC1 behind a native large canoe with a sail, at Biak" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Boat Antithesis. Stabilized by outrigger, assisted by sail, four Biak men paddle their large wood canoe on Soenggarai Bay. Praised for their first-class seamanship, these Biak natives may be traveling here by wai mansusu (a battle canoe) or by wai ron (a trading canoe). Hill wrote Martha that 'still cameras can't show the slow rhythmic grace of the great canoes as they move around.' In the background, a diesel-fired Liberty Ship rides at anchor." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
8/23/1944
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2010.1.289
Biak, Ocean Swimming 1
Naval ships
Recreation
Swimming
"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 water trickling into coral tidal pools. To cool off, keep clean, and avoid the scrub typhus plague, nearly every evening they put on their shoes, then waded out to an abandoned fuel barge sunk at the edge of the coral shelf. From the barge, they dove into clear 85 degree water twenty feet deep, and on the bottom, they saw the coral gardens." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
9/30/1944
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2010.1.296
Biak, Ocean Swimming 2
Naval ships
Recreation
Swimming
"Swimming off a sunken barge at edge of a coral shelf. Possible to wade to the barge and dive into 20 ft deep water on seaward side at Biak, Dutch New Guinea 17th tactical Recon Sqdn"
Hill, Fred
9/30/1944
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2010.1.305
Leyte, Outrigger Welcome 5
Canoes
Native peoples
Naval ships
"Outrigger canoes like this one, came out to our ships - in the harbor at Tacloban - to sell fruit, chickens, souvenirs, or some even had talented girls to sing - for tips, of course"
Hill, Fred
10/28/1944
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2010.1.385
Leyte, LST 626 1
Beaches
Military uniforms
Naval ships
"LST 626 - well up on beach - doors and ramp ready to load Dec 1944. This is the one that was so far onto the beach it could not be pulled off and had to be unloaded." From "Darkroom Soldier": "Lucky LST 626. After two months 'of heavy ground fighting..., American troops had secured parts of [Leyte] necessary for air and logistical bases..., the Army Air Forces had gained air superiority, and ...naval and air forces had stopped Japanese reinforcing operations.' Preparing to move north again, Hill records here the Navy ship and miscalculation that might have -- once more -- saved his life. Intending to load this LST, the Navy captain beached 626 so high that -- when heavily loaded -- not even a Navy tug and other LSTs could pull the ship off the sand. So, Hill and the 71st Group soldiers watched their assigned convoy sail for Mindoro, then camped on San Pedro Beach, and began to unload the ship." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
12/30/1944
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2010.1.462
Leyte, LST 626 2
Military uniforms
Naval ships
"LST 626 loading on the beach near Tacloban. Dec 1944 - en route to Mindoro"
Hill, Fred
12/30/1944
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2010.1.463
Leyte, LST 626 3
Military uniforms
Naval ships
"Open ramp of LST 626 on beach at Leyte - loading for Mindoro Dec 1944"
Hill, Fred
12/30/1944
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2010.1.464
Liberty Ship, Juan Cabrillo 5
Naval ships
Silhouettes
"Two Liberty ships, as seen over AA gun sight" From "Darkroom Soldier": "On the SS Juan Cabrillo. Luminous clouds above, Liberty Ship a far silhouette, 20 mm anti-aircraft gun up close -- the young photographer documented these apparently commonplace daily images en route to Leyte. The ship and those anti-aircraft guns, however, would come to hold uncommon significance for Hill because of an event the night after docking at Tacloban. As he later told Martha, 'From my cot, through the open hold, I could see the tracers of 20 mm anti-aircraft guns going straight away, meaning that an enemy plane, no doubt a kamikaze suicide plane, was coming directly at the Juan Cabrillo. If it hit our ship and blew up, or even just engulfed the hold with flaming gasoline -- well, you can say I was scared. But thanks to the training and skill of the Marine gunners, they dropped the attacking plane in the sea before it reached us." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
4/21/1945
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