Photographs from the Pacific in World War II [graphic], circa 1945-1946.

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Photographs from the Pacific in World War II [graphic], circa 1945-1946.

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Photos, almost all unidentified, depict a unit of fellow [marines?], a "Jap hunter," a market in the [Philippines?], camps, advancing troops and Sherman tanks, captured Japanese tanks (Chi-Ni?) and bodies of dead Japanese, including a man caught by a flame thrower, a U. S. soldier with Japanese sword standing next to bodies [in a machine gun nest?], surrendering Japanese soldiers, [Philippine refugee family?], ruins of a [Philippine?] city and village, landing forces and setting up M1 155mm guns "Long Toms" on Okinawa. With these is a diary, "The Sentinel," 1944, published by Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and used by Margorie Davie to record daily activities, January through early April. Loose scraps of paper include a clipping of a cartoon on cheering up your soldier by sending V-mail and a page with the names of Margie and Rob and a note "Please make Rob propose so we can marry and I won't have to go to school anymore."

25 photos.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Virginia Tech

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Virginia Tech (VT), formally Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute and 250 acres of nearby Solitude Farm. The commonwealth incorporated a new institution on the site, a state-supported land-grant military institute named ...

West, Marjorie Davie.

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West, Robert L., 1926-

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U. S. Marine from Chesterfield, Va. From the description of Photographs from the Pacific in World War II [graphic], circa 1945-1946. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 698376193 ...