Puuhale Honu
Bound for the Marshall Islands, 1950.
My mother, sisters and me on the way to Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, aboard the troop ship U. S. S. General D. E. Aultman. The mustaches and other markings on our faces must be from the ceremony for crossing the International Date Line. Great fun for a 10-year-old boy! When we arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, women and children needed to climb down troop loading nets into waiting Navy landing craft for transportation to shore. The next morning, aboard a twin-engine, military C47 we flew 250+ miles to a jungle air strip on Majuro. This was early in the Korean Conflict and American troops and some families continued on to Japan and Korea.
Bound for the Marshall Islands, 1950.
My mother, sisters and me on the way to Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, aboard the troop ship U. S. S. General D. E. Aultman. The mustaches and other markings on our faces must be from the ceremony for crossing the International Date Line. Great fun for a 10-year-old boy! When we arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, women and children needed to climb down troop loading nets into waiting Navy landing craft for transportation to shore. The next morning, aboard a twin-engine, military C47 we flew 250+ miles to a jungle air strip on Majuro. This was early in the Korean Conflict and American troops and some families continued on to Japan and Korea.