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Doyle Rees photograph collection, 1941-1945

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Rees, Doyle, 1908-2007.
Title
Doyle Rees photograph collection
Dates
1941-1945 (inclusive)
Quantity
2 boxes, (.75 linear feet)
Collection Number
UUS_P0408
Summary
The 209 photographs in the Doyle Rees photograph collection depict various battles from the Pacific Ocean campaign during World War II. These battles include those on Kwajalein Island, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Tarawa Atoll, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Battle of Midway. The majority of the photos were taken by the Army Pictoral Service and include a brief synopsis of the photo on the back.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Doyle Rees was born in Benson, Utah on September 9, 1908 to Jesse T. and Florence Tarbet Rees. Rees graduated from Utah Agricultural College where he played on the football team earning the nickname, "High-Power." He later attended the George Washington University Law School for three years before entering the military at the outbreak of World War II and was stationed in Hawaii. After being promoted to colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Rees became part of the Office of Special Investigations. He was soon involved in the the "green fireball" investigations in New Mexico. This involved sightings of bright green meteor-like objects shooting across the sky. In 1963, Rees retired from the Air Force, but continuted to work from his home in Logan as a special investigator for the CIA until his death on December 29, 2007, in Logan, Utah.

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Content Description

The 209 photographs in the Doyle Rees photograph collection depict various battles from the Pacific Ocean campaign during World War II. These battles include those on Kwajalein Island, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Tarawa Atoll, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Battle of Midway. The majority of the photos were taken by the Army Pictoral Service and include a brief synopsis of the photo on the back.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Doyle Rees photograph collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: USU_P0408; Doyle Rees photograph collection; Photograph Collections Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_P0408, USUSCA.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

Processed in March of 2012

Acquisition Information

Donated by Doyle Rees in 2000

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Battle of Kwajalein Island, 1944

    Container: Box 1

    • Description: 1-01-01: "Assault boats and Alligators come in to beach at low tide. They are bringing in men and equipment of the 7th Division, Kwajalein Atoll, Enubuj Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-02: "American Cemetery on one of the smaller islands that was untouched by the battle. The cemetery had its dedication after the battle by men from all branches of the Division and others from the Navy and the Marine Corps. Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-03: "Supplies, troops and equipment move in a long line toward the front to reinforce other troops of the U.S. Army, 7th Division, in its attack on the Japs at Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-04: "All that remains of a Jap munitions dump after aerial and naval bombardment. 7th Division, U.S. Army. Kwajalein"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-05: "One of the two 5" Naval Dual Purpose Guns that was knocked out by aerial bombing. 7th Division attack upon Kwajalein Atoll, Enubuj Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-06: "Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers to smoke Japs out of the blockhouse on Kwajalein Island, while others wait with rifles ready in case Japs come out"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-07: "Radio tower still standing on Enubuj Island, Kwajalein Atoll, 7th Division. First day, Enubuj Village"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-08: "Korean laborer prisoners point out dispositon of Jap troops on Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-09: "Men of the Mortar Section moving up to the front lines. The men used their instrument on targets 100 yards away with extreme effectiveness. 7th Division, U.S. Army, Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-10: "L-R. Commander Turner, USN; General Charles H. Corlett, Comdg. Gen. of the 7th Division and Maj. General Holland M. Smith, USMC. They are attending the serviecs for the men who fell in the attak against the various islands in the Marshall Group. Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-11: "Maj. General Corlett examining maps at forward CP during Battle for Kwajalein Island, 7th Division, U.S. Army"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-12: "LST nosing up on shore D-Day bringing men and equipment of the 7th Divison. Carlson Island, Kwajalein Atoll"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-13: "Kwajalein Island. Men and material line the road. Leafless palms testify to the intensity of the battle"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-14: "Kwajalein Island. Tanks of the 7th Division rumble over the Atoll"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-15: "Men of the 7th Dvision during fighting of Kwajalein, enjoy a can of "C" Ration alongside Japs just killed"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-16: "Troops of the 7th Division are wary of every move and sound in the debris during the fighting for Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-17: "Kwajalein Island. Jap gun emplacement"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-18: "'Old Glory' waves over formerly Jap held territory. Kwajalein Island, 7th Divison, U.S. Army"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-19: "Jeep being pulled from ship to shore by a "cat" 7th Division, U.S. Army. Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-20: "American cemetery on one of the smaller islands that was untouched by the battle. The cemetery had its dedication after the battle by men from all branches of the division and others from the Navy and the Marine Corps. Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-21: "Jap pillbox and debris left on the island after the troops had passed through on their mop up job. Nothing was left standing. 7th Division, U.S. Army. Kwajalein Island."
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-22: "Lt. G. Roth, Signal Corps Photographer, examining a shell gun position. 7th Division, U.S. Army, Kwajalein Island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: 1-01-23: "Men of the 184th Inf. fire mortars on the Japs. Kwajalein Island."
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Battle of Saipan, 1944

    • Description: 1-02-01: "Saipan. A column of U.S. Army reinforcements move across coral reef after dismbarking from LST's in background"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-02: "Saipan. A typical Chimorro man in the civilian internment camp"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-03: "Saipan. In the distance are U.S. artillery hits on Jap positions on Mt. Tapochau"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-04: "Corporal Angus Robertson, a Marine Corps Combat Photographer, took this dramatic picture of a Leatherneck falling (foreground), after being struck by red hot shrapnel from an exploding Jap mortar shell. Concussion from the exploding shell jarred Robertson as he snapped the photo. The Marines, of the Second Division, were pushing the retreating Japs across Saipan"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-05: "Dead Japs of counter attack of July 6, 1944"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-06: "After Saipan Island was secured, Marines found the body of Lt. Gen. Yoshige Saito, of the Imperial Japanese Army, in a cave above Tanapag, on the northern end of the Island. He is believed to have ordered the last "Banzai" charge by the Japs on July 7. Circumstances indicated that high ranking officer made an unsuccesssful attempt to commit hari kiri with a knife and had to have an aide finish the task. General Saito was given a funeral with full military honors in accordance with the Geneva Convention Code"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-07: "Target Tinian. An American long tom 155MM rifle, belches its lethal projetile toward the Jap held Island of Tinian from American occupied Saipan"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-08: "Marines examine a Jap Zero found behind a revetment on Aslito Airfield. The plane was shot up by strafing planes and never took the air in defense of Saipan. The airfield was renamed Isely Field in honor of Commander Robert H. Isely, Commander of Navy Torpedo Squadron 16, who was shot down by Jap anit-aircraft fire during a bombing attack on the field"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-09: "U.S. Marine kneels above the body of his buddie killed during the invasion of the Island of Saipan"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-10: "Men of the 27th Army Division gather together for the dedication of the Division's Cemetery/Saipan"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-11: "Saipan. Aerial view of Garapan, largest Jap city on the island, showing wreckage left by bombing and naval fire. Garapan is being referred to as the "Cassino of the Pacific" because of the heavy street fighting with occured there"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-12: "Saipan. Chimorro Natives haul supplies in an oxcart"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-13: "Children run to see some of the tanks going by the civilian Japanese interment camp. Saipan"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-14: "Saipan. Nurse Birdie B. Diagle, of Opeloasas, LA shown caring for a few of the many unclaimed children. Japanese girl helps around the internment hospital"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-15: "Blood Plasma administering"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-16: "A chaplain read burial service for Marines who died on Saipan and were buried at sea from a troop transport. Buddies of the dead Leathernecks acted as pall-bearers"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-17: "Marines mopping up. Mortar and Machine Gun crews in Tanapag Harbor"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-18: "Saipan. Port and Services operations. View showing narrow unrepaired section of sugar mill pier"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-19: "In the distance are ships of a U.S. Task Force"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-20: "In a Shrine Garden, two Marines (background), walk through the garden of a Japanese shrine on Saipan, in search of snipers. Two Jap machine gunners lie beside their silenced machine gun (foreground). The shrine was in the rear of the alcohol plant, one of the first targets blasted by Naval batteries"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-21: "Marine reinforcements move up toward the Saipan front lines along a road being widened by a bulldozer to accommodate the heavy equipment which will follow the Leathernecks. Village stores line the left side of the road"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-22: "Air-craft bursts fill the evening sky over Saipan as vessels in the US Navy task force covering the landing on that island repulse a Jap air attack. Between the signal lanyards of this Coast Guard-manned attack transport another transport and supporting craft are silhouetted"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-23: "Japanese bomber explodes from a hit from Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier during a raid by the Japs on the task force which attacked enemy bases in the Marianas 22 February 1944"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-24: "Saipan. Jap civilian prisoners taken at Magicienne Bay."
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-02-25: "Marines at religious services during fierce fighting"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: 1-03-01: Troops
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-02: Troops on the beach
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-03: "Heavy machine gun emplacement"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-04: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-05: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-06: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-07: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-08: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-09: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-10: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-11: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-12: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-13: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-14: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-15: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-16: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-17: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-18: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-19: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-20: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-21: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-22: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-23: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-24: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-25: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: 1-03-26: untitled
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Battle of Guam, 1944

    • Description: 1-04-01: "View of alligators on the beach. Note the shell craters and fallen palm trees. Guam"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-02: "Guam. Men, vehicles and all sorts of equipment stream ashore on Guam"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-03: Three inch CD gun on bank on island
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-04: "Steel CP" on island
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-05: "CD Gun" emplacement with sighting tower
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-06: U.S. Soldiers searaching for Japanese troops in trench
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-07: Airplanes and support vehicles on airfield
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-08: Destroyed gun emplacement
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-09: U.S. soldier standing next to destroyed building
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-10: Destroyed radar installation
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-11: Destroyed radar installation, two soldiers, U.S. tank
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-12: "A Jap plane, shot down by Navy gunfire, lies in the water off Guam beach, as Marines continue to stream ashore. A Jeep (background), gets a tow to shallow water from an amphib tractor"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-13: "A group of natives curiously watch the proceedings going on down the hill"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-14: "South of the town of Agat, Marine Corps tanks, trucks and 'Amtracs' roll up the Beach"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-15: "'Surrender or be blasted from your caves' Marines shout to the Jap soldiers over their loud-speaker"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-16: "Emerging from the bow of this Coast Guard tank lighter, a Marine Corps half track, with ammunition trailer, splashes through the shallow waters of Guam as an advance scout leads the way to the beach"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-17: "Troops and equipment deployed along the beach"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-18: "Orote Peninsula Airfield. Marines examine a wrecked Jap Plane"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-19: "Funeral service for three children of Guam. Lt. Comdr Alfred F. Kamler of Beaufort, S.C. officiated at the children's burial while he was at the cemetery to perform a similar service for Marines who died while retaking Guam"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-04-20: "Corporal Kurt" a Marine Corps War Dog wounded, made his way to 1st aid station after his partner was picked up by corpsmen. Dog was bandaged and administered Sulfanilamide"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: 1-05-01: "Jap troops, killed by Marine artillery fire, lie in a depression, on Guam, awaiting Leatherneck burial parties. These dead were among the first enemy to fall in an effort to hold the former American base"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-02: "Shell hole from a Navy big gun shell makes a community washtub"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-03: "Men of the U.S. Army's 77th division being treated at one of the many receiving stations"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-04: "After the battle" picture of destroyed building and tank
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-05: "After the battle" picture of destroyed building and tank #2
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-06: "U.S. bomber attacking targets on island"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-07: "Beachhead with first aid station in foreground"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-08: "Ruins of a Marine Barracks. (Sumay on Orote Peninsula?)"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-09: "Chimmoros air out their few remaining personal effects after a night of rain"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-10: "Miscellaneous supplies being disgorged from LST to the beach"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-11: "Agana, Capital of Guam. Naval gunfire and Carrier based bombers pound Agana before Invasion"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-12: "Plaza of a town on Guam now in hands of U.S. Marines. Bayonet dummies as in photo were used by Japs to impress the natives with their strength and fighting prowess"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-13: "Jap plane goes down from carrier ack-ack action occured during Jap carrier based air attack on our task force"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-14: "Huntington Guam. Demolished Japanese aircraft on the white beach landing area"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-15: "Guam. Tanks of the 77th division moving up to the front"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-16: "Japanese Caves blasted with dynamite. This is 2nd (and "effective") charge"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-17: Soldiers during fighting on island
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-18: "CD battery" on island
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-19: "Former fire control station with range finder"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-05-20: "Beach Barricade"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: 1-06-01: "Destroyed CD Gun"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-02: Ammunition supply depot on Guam
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-03: U.S. soldier standing in entryway of destroyed bunker
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-04: Picture of island beachhead taken from boat
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-05: "Result of direct hit on similar CP", destroyed gun emplacement
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-06: "Pill Boxes, note rifle ports in beach barricade of lower photo"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-07: "U.S. soldier giving cat water from canteen under destroyed Japanese tank"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-08: Japanese bunker disguised by sand and fallen trees
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-09: "37mm gun on S shore"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-10: U.S. soldiers walking through rubble and destroyed trees
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-11: Two U.S. soldiers with radio and equipment in crater
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-12: Two dead soldiers lying in sand
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-13: Barricade and gun emplacement on beachhead
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-14: Japanese bunker buried in ground
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-15: Picture of beachhead, barriers, and sea taken from island
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-16: Dead soldier lying among damaged barrels and other equipment
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-17: U.S. soldier and three amphibious assault crafts
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-18: U.S. soldier hanging up laundry on clothes line in camp
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-19: "Headquarters No 2 SW Corner"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-20: "Side by side in the Army, Navy and Marine Cemetery, on the outskirts of Agana, Guam Island, are the graves of Colonel Douglas McNair, son of Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair, followed his father in death when he was struck by a sniper's bullet. Visiting the cemetery, after Marines secured the island, was little Juanita Salles Fejeran"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-06-21: "Jap pillbox in the process of being blown up on Orote Peninsula"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: 1-07-01: "Guam. Marines with war dogs going up to the front on Orote Peninsula"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-02: "Guam. Marines with war dogs going up to the front on Orote Peninsula"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-03: "Marines going ashore at Guam"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-04: "Guam. Pillbox used by Japs on Orote Peninsula"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-05: "Beach at Asan Point"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-06: "LST disgorges Marine Corps "Duck" (2 1/2 ton Amphibious truck)"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-07: "Marines hug the beach as land mines explode and Jap snipers operate"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-08: "Marines carry mortar shells and small arms ammunition inland from the beach on Guam, as fighting coninued in the densely forested hills"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-09: "Orote Peninsula Airstrop. Cruiser in Apra Harbor. Town of Sunday at left"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-10: "Air and surface craft blast Jap positions preventing U.S. ground forces advances"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-11: "Island residents stream from the Hills after hostilities ended August 10th"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-12: "Coast where first waves of Landing Marines came ashore (Orote Peninsula)"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-13: "Mortar Shelling enemy on Mt. Alifan (background)"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-14: "Beach-boud Coast Guard Tank Lighter"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-15: "Moving to the front lines on Guam, these Marine Corps troops pass by shattered buildings in Agat Town. Naval guns and aerial bombardment supported by ground based artillery reduced this once important town to a shambles"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: 1-07-16: "Guam. Operating Room set up in captured Jap building in Agat City"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Battle of Tinian, 1944

    Container: Box 2, Folder 1

    • Description: 2-01-01: "A Jap ammunition dump on the beach at Tinian explodes following a direct hit by Naval Bombardment as this Coast Guard coxswain speeds to the shore with men and equipmet for the forces engaged"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-01-02: "Small boats enroute to beaches "H" hour, "M" minute"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-01-03: "Marines searching cliffs for fleeing Jap 'holdouts'"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-01-04: "Marine and Army "AmTracs" coming ashore"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-01-05: "Target Tinian. A 90M AA Gun and Crew in action firing on ground targets on the Jap held Island of Tinian, three miles away
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-01-06: "Marines watch Jap ammo dump explode, touched off by Navy Bombing Planes"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-01-07: "Broadside for Tinian from a U.S. Navy cruiser covering Marine beach-bound amphibious tractors."
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-01-08: "Three Marines grab off a few minutes rest as battle ends on Tinian; 2nd and 4th Marine Division went through twin campaigns of Saipan and Tinian"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Battle of Tarawa Atoll, 1943

    Container: Box 2, Folder 2

    • Description: 2-02-01: Aerial view of Tarawa Atoll attack
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
    • Description: 2-02-02: Aerial view of Tarawa Atoll
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
    • Description: 2-02-03: Aerial view of Tarawa Atoll attack (different angle)
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-02-04: Aerial view of Tarawa Atoll (different angle)
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-02-05: Aerial view of Tarawa Atoll (different angle)
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: 2-02-06: Aerial view of Tarawa Atoll (different angle)
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Pearl Harbor, 1941

    Container: Box 2, Folder 3

    • Description: 2-03-01: "Japanese photo taken during the raid on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941."
      Dates: 1941 December 7
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-02: "Japanese aerial photographs taken on 7 December 1941"
      Dates: 1941 December 7
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-03: "The USS Shaw exploding"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-04: "USS Arizona sinking"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-05: "Cassin and Downes in drydock with Pennsylvania in background"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-06: "The USS Oglala capsized after being attacked by Japanese aircraft and submarines in the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-07: "The USS West Virginia and the USS Tennessee"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-08: "Abandoning ship aboard the USS California after the ship had been set afire and started to sink from being attacked by the Japanese in their sneak raid on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-09: "USS Nevada burning"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-10: "The USS California sunk"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-11: "USS Oklahoma. Stern view. Sunk 7 December 1941"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-12: "Battleship row. Capsized USS Oklahoma"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-13: "The USS West Virginia and the USS Tennessee"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-14: "Stern of West Virigina"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-15: "The West Virginia, the Tennessee, and the Arizona"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-16: "View of Pearl Harbor made by civilian photographer during the height of the attack on the morning of 7 December 1941"
      Dates: 1941 December 7
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-17: "New barracks at Hickam still burning after attack"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-18: "Smoke from Pearl Harbor after 7 December 1941 attack"
      Dates: 1941 December 7
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-19: "Damaged Wing of barracks after 7 December 1941 attack"
      Dates: 1941 December 7
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-20: "Machine gun nest made from bomb crater and motors from wrecked planes. Hickam Field"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-21: "Heap of wrecked planes from mat at Hickam Field"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-03-22: "Bombed truck still burning. Off Hickam Parade Ground "F" Street, 11.15 A.M."
      Dates: 1941 December 7
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: 2-04-01: "Japanese two-man submarines as found on the beach"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-02: "Japanese submarine beached at Bellows Field"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-03: "Japanese aerial photographs taken of Wheeler Field on 7 December 1941"
      Dates: 1941 December 7
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-04: "Damaged P-40 at Wheeler Field"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-05: "Hangar 3 and barracks at Wheeler Field after attack"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-06: "B-17 wing on mat after 7 December attack"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-07: "Cartoon found in Jap plane after being drowned"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-08: "Recovered Jap plane"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-09: "Japanese bomber recovered from Harbor"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-10: "Japanese pilot recovered from the Habor"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: 2-04-11: "Jap plane shot down at Ford Island"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  • Battle of Midway, 1942

    Container: Box 2, Folder 5

    • Description: 2-05-01: "Yorktown in Battle of Midway"
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
    • Description: 2-05-02: "Yorktown in Battle of Midway"
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
    • Description: 2-05-03: "USS Yorktown in Battle of Midway"
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
    • Description: 2-05-04: "Mogami Class heavy cruiser sunk in Midway action by Army-Navy-Marine Corps Flyers"
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
    • Description: 2-05-06: "Mogami Class heavy cruiser sunk at Midway."
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
    • Description: 2-05-07: "Maj. General Clarence L. Tinker, Commanding General, 7th AAF, during Battle of Midway. Missing from flight in search of remnant of Jap Fleet several days after Battle of Midway."
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  • Miscellaneous Photographs, 1942

    Container: Box 2, Folder 6

    • Description: 2-06-01: "General Charles Corlett addressing his men at the dedication exercises at Enilpapkan Island. 7th Division, U.S. Army"
      Dates: 1941-1945
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
    • Description: 2-06-02: "Action photo from a Pacific Fleet aricraft carrier shows carrier throwing out a stream of AA fire at a Jap plane which has attacked it during the raid on enemy bases in the Marianas, 22 Feb. 44. White spots among the puffs of smoke are made by tracer bullets. No U.S. ship was sunk or damaged in the attack"
      Dates: 1941-1945
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
    • Description: 2-06-03: Unidentified Island
      Dates: 1941-1945
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
    • Description: 2-06-04: Aerial view of unidentified island
      Dates: 1941-1945
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6

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Subject Terms

  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean--Photographs
  • Midway, Battle of, 1942--Photographs
  • Peal Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941--Photographs
  • Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands--Photographs
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Guam--Photographs
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Kiribati--Tarawa Atoll--Photographs
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Marshall Islands--Kwajalein Island--Photographs
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Northern Mariana Islands--Tinian--Photographs
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