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1 hour ago, GITom1944 said:

9th Army Mechanized cavalrymen, all from Rochester, NY,

 

 

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That GI on the bottom left in the Tanker Helmet, what is he wearing, looks like a Flight suit of some kind.

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8 hours ago, patches said:

That GI on the bottom left in the Tanker Helmet, what is he wearing, looks like a Flight suit of some kind.

I had not noticed, but I think you are right... Wonder what the story behind it is?

 

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On 2/16/2022 at 6:52 AM, GITom1944 said:

I had not noticed, but I think you are right... Wonder what the story behind it is?

 

Tom

 

 

Thinking a german issue flight suit. Wide collar is in the style used by the Luftwaffe. 

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Pfc. Henry Latanski October 25, 1944 Credited for killing 25 Japanese soldiers in the Pacific during the first major Japanese counter attack on Leyte

 

 

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After the American victory on Saipan and Tinian, Japanese civilians were held in internment camps. Security was light because water, food, shelter, and medical care was provided in the camps. The photo depicts a marine giving candy to a Japanese child in an internment camp on Tinian, probably around August 1944. In contrast to Japanese internment camps, the civilians gained weight. There were virtually no POWs as the Japanese soldiers refused to surrender.

 

 

 

 

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Here an American Marine only a few days after Saipan was secured has made friends with a Japanese boy. The new wire caption read, "American Marines and Infatrymenwho took Saipan extended a rotective hand to the Japanese women sand children left behinf by the Japanese soldiers. A friendly Yank Marine gets a big hick out of giving a little Japanese voy a ride on his shoulders." The photograph was dated July 11, only days after the island was secured. (The date may be when the newspaper received it rather than when the photograph was taken.) One wonders after what the boy was told before the American invasion what was going through his mind.

 

 

 

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34 minutes ago, doyler said:

Here an American Marine only a few days after Saipan was secured has made friends with a Japanese boy. The new wire caption read, "American Marines and Infatrymenwho took Saipan extended a rotective hand to the Japanese women sand children left behinf by the Japanese soldiers. A friendly Yank Marine gets a big hick out of giving a little Japanese voy a ride on his shoulders." The photograph was dated July 11, only days after the island was secured. (The date may be when the newspaper received it rather than when the photograph was taken.) One wonders after what the boy was told before the American invasion what was going through his mind.

 

 

 

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My Dad was an Army infantryman who fought on Saipan. He told some sad stories about the civilian population there.  Glad this little boy made it through when so many didn't. Good to see the smile on that solder too.    

 

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Survivor (Littlest Survivor). Photo by W. Eugene Smith, 1943
During World War II hundreds of Japanese were under siege on the island of Saipan, and committed mass suicide rather than surrender to the Americans. When US Marines searched the island, in one of the caves was found barely alive child.
 

 

 

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Two informal portraits in Steel Helmets, here Brigadier Generals.

 

Brigadier General Frederick M. Harris Assistant Divisional Commander 63d Infantry Division

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