Master Caption wrote:"Boomtown" A Marine Corps air base in the South Pacific is regarded as a model base, and to some Marines who have not been there, as unbelievable. Other Marines seeing it for the first time think it is a mirage. "Boomtown" features hamburger stands, steam laundries, running water, screened in portable living quarters of mahogany, a mess hall of mahogany, and even the Good Humor man - - - all within range of Japanese bombers.
Most of the credit belongs to Colonel Raymond S. Hopper, of 150 W. Avenue, Coronado, Calif.,who went to the South Pacific equipped with the laundry machines, and even a portable sawmill. Colonel Hopper joined the Marines in 1926 after graduating from Mississippi State University.
Even the Japs would not recognize the island they held a few months ago, and Colonel Hopper's ideas have paid dividends as the morale of the personnel on the island is unsurpassed.
Jerry Cans/Petroleum-Oils-Lubricants
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Note the jerrycan in the foreground.
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Invasion Of Normandy
US Gen. George Marshall washing his face as Army Air Corps. Gen. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold (behind soldier w. water can) washes his hands in basin during visit of top US brass to the Normandy beachhead areas after successful Allied D-Day invasion.
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http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l? ... f786df12de" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Adak, Aleutians
Date taken: December 1943
Photographer: Dmitri Kessel
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Oil drums being stored on a US military base abroad.
Location: Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands
Date taken: December 1957
Photographer: John Dominis
Location: Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands
Date taken: December 1957
Photographer: John Dominis
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Saipan Northern Mariana Islands 1945
source: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675 ... g-unloaded Tibor
source: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675 ... g-unloaded Tibor
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Thanks Tibor!
Some good rear views of the Holden ambulances in that film also.
Some good rear views of the Holden ambulances in that film also.
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Source: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-r ... ps-reel-1/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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American servicemen loading large landing craft, part of the D-Day invasion preparations.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: June 1944
Photographer: David E. Scherman
Empty Jerricans??
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: June 1944
Photographer: David E. Scherman
Empty Jerricans??
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http://images.google.com/hosted/life/a7 ... 744a2.htmlElisofon, Eliot
Date taken: 1943
Photographer: Eliot Elisofon
Size: 1280 x 850 pixels (17.8 x 11.8 inches)
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Hi Luis,
Mate they look like water cans.
Cheers Gary
Mate they look like water cans.
Cheers Gary
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Ok Gary! Thanks!
IWM pics
Cheers!
IWM pics
Cheers!
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