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Photograph of four U.S. Army soldiers, standing on the steps of Barrack No. 3 at Camp Swift, Texas, in September 1944. Arthur W. Matthews Jr. (far left, with garrison cap) was at Camp Swift for basic training (September 1944) [Printed by: Renfro’s Photo Service, September 9, 1944].
From Arthur W. Matthews Jr. Papers, WWII 78, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Evidence of WWII is everywhere in Saipan. Here are the ruins of the Japanese power plant for their As Lito airfield. You can see a Japanese tank out the door. See more:
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Modeling an authentic WWII WAC Uniform. More about my retro/historical photography: vintagereveries.com/series/carondelet-historical-society-...
My video documenting the surviving WWII ordnance in the jungle of Naftan Peninsula in Saipan. In the last year-and-a-half of WWII this area was used to store massive amounts of bombs and ordnance of all types for the constant bombing of Japan. The American military was also stockpiling ammunition here for the expected invasion of the Japanese homeland. When the war ended the American military tried to dispose of the remaining ordnance but, with hundreds of thousands of bombs, many were left behind. This was 90 seconds of clips from the video. You can see the rest of this video on YouTube here:
www.youtube.com/user/SaipanPictures#p/u/0/pUqAX4qPYc4
or near the bottom of this Blogspot page:
Photograph of a group of six U.S. Army soldiers posing kneeling outside in front of an unidentified hotel at an unknown location around the time of World War II. Pictured are: (back row, hunched over, left to right) Kull; Walsh; (front row, kneeling, left to right) Tansey; Franklin; O’Keefe; and Cpl. Burke. Photograph captioned on the front “Know the Place? Wish I was there.” Photograph captioned on back: “This is me when you knew me. I’ll have you a new one soon.” Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew Burke, and collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Photograph captioned in scrapbook: “Cpl. Burke, and Buddies” (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Official U.S. Navy glass recognition training slide of a German Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf FW 190 Würger single-seat fighter airplane, created during World War II (Slide No. M 1544) [Slide produced by: Three Dimension Company, Chicago, Illinois].
From U.S. Navy Recognition Training Slides, WWII 143, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot from the rear of a crowd looking towards Hollywood film actress and pin-up girl Betty Grable (wearing dark dress, standing near microphone facing away from camera) presenting a trophy to the Reception Center baseball team at the Fort Bragg Reception Center in 1942. She was at Fort Bragg, N.C., filming a documentary called Betty Grable at Army Camp. Photograph taken by William L. Flournoy while he was stationed at Fort Bragg for U.S. Army service during World War II (1942).
From William L. Flournoy Sr. Papers, WWII 109, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Photograph of a U.S. Army soldier named Conrad Williams, wearing his full Army uniform and hat, walking down the sidewalk of an unidentified downtown during World War II. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew him, and took or collected this photograph while she was living in Morganton or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Photograph captioned in scrapbook: “Conrad Williams” (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
There are thousands of American WWII beer bottles on the jungle floor. This one was made one month prior to the Battle of Saipan. It would have been put on a supply ship in 1944 and followed the war over the Pacific. The American soldiers in the battle certainly never saw a beer but the hundred thousand American soldiers stationed here for two years after the battle were given a ration of six beers a week. They brought their rations into the hills and left the bottles right where they were drank, and they are still there!
Snapshot of Hollywood film actress and pin-up girl Betty Grable (wearing dark dress), posing sitting on an artillery gun with the Reception Center baseball team cheering around her at the Fort Bragg Reception Center in 1942. She was at Fort Bragg, N.C., filming a documentary called Betty Grable at Army Camp. Photograph taken by William L. Flournoy while he was stationed at
Fort Bragg for U.S. Army service during World War II (1942).
From William L. Flournoy Sr. Papers, WWII 109, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
WWII Japanese Val dive-bomber pictured at Carman, Manitoba. This aircraft was recovered from an abandoned WWII jungle airstrip in the Gilbert Islands of the South Pacific in 1968 by Bob Diemert.
Photo via Diemert to Blake Smith collection.
Please no publication requests or re-posting to websites.
Snapshot of an unidentified U.S. Army soldier, wearing a heavy hooded winter coat and gloves, standing outside in the snow next to a sign on a tree pole for the Alcan Highway North in Alaska during World War II. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew the man, and collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Photograph captioned in scrapbook: “What a Pest !!” “Alaska Insect” (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
"Locomotive shot up by the RAF in the station at Baccarat Feb/45" From the photo album of Alwyn Rattray.
World War II planes in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, some time in the 1940s during the second World War. Photo probably by Jack Cravens. If you are interested at all in the Alaska/Aleutian Islands front of the war, read more details about my grandfather's WWII experience. Please do NOT publish these photos online or in print or on a slide show or video without my written permission.
One of the most used German machine gun in WWII. The barrel change took about 7.5 seconds. That`s all the allies had to get up and go.
Snapshot of Hollywood film actress and pin-up girl Betty Grable (wearing dark dress), posing with the Reception Center baseball team at the Fort Bragg Reception Center in 1942. She was at Fort Bragg, N.C., filming a documentary called Betty Grable at Army Camp. Photograph taken by William L. Flournoy while he was stationed at Fort Bragg for U.S. Army service during World War II (1942).
From William L. Flournoy Sr. Papers, WWII 109, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Official U.S. Navy glass recognition training slide of a U.S. Army Air Forces Curtiss SB2C Helldiver carrier-based dive bomber airplane, taken during World War II (Slide No. M 170) [Slide produced by: Three Dimension Company, Chicago, Illinois].
From U.S. Navy Recognition Training Slides, WWII 143, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of an unidentified woman wearing a fur coat and a headscarf, walking down a icy road in the snow around the time of World War II [believed to be in Morganton, N.C.]. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Interesting vintage embroidery stitched by a man in the Coast Guard for his wife during WWII. Saw this in an antique shop in Connecticut while visiting the Sea Music Festival in Mystic.
Shop info: Boat House Antiques, 145c Water Street, Stonington, CT 06378.
Photograph of Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., wearing a bikini, standing outside on a beach with a house in the background at an unidentified location [either in North Carolina or Baltimore, Maryland] during World War II [printed in 1944].
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
A WWII Veteran exercises his right to protest. Strobist info: Canon 580EXII with shoot-through umbrella camera left; YN560 camera right, behind subject for rim.
See more of his story at jasondietrich.zenfolio.com/blog/2012/8/a-wwii-veteran-exe...
Inscription on a WWII Japanese cannon on Managaha island in Saipan. Can you translate? Notice the Japan Navy's emblem in the center.
Official U.S. Navy glass recognition training slide of a U.S. Army Air Forces Curtiss P-40 Warhawk single-seat fighter airplane, taken on June 25, 1943 (Slide No. M 579B) [Slide produced by: Three Dimension Company, Chicago, Illinois].
From U.S. Navy Recognition Training Slides, WWII 143, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., wearing a bikini, sitting in a row boat on an unidentified body of water [either in North Carolina or Baltimore, Maryland] during World War II [printed in 1944].
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of three friends sitting or leaning against the metal railing of a bridge over a river at an unidentified location around the time of World War II. Pictured are (left to right): a woman nicknamed Bet [probably for Betty]; a young man named Jimmie; and a young woman named Mary Jo. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew the three, and collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Photograph captioned in scrapbook on the page labeled “Memories of a Wonderful Sunday !!” [with a drawing of a bottle labeled “White Lightning Mountain Corn Distilleries”]: “Bet-Jim-Mary Jo” (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Small studio portrait of a teenager named Jim, a doctor’s son, believed taken between 1939 and 1941 just before World War II. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew the boy (likely from her family connections because of her father’s work as a doctor), and collected this photograph while she was living in the Morganton. Photograph captioned in scrapbook: “An M.D.’s Son. Jim” [circa 1940].
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Modeling an authentic WWII WAC Uniform. More about my retro/historical photography: vintagereveries.com/series/carondelet-historical-society-...