Description:
Various locations, 1941.This archive consists of 17 loose album pages with about 75 mounted photographs, 35 loose photographs, a Marines' Hymn postcard, Captain Bryant's ticket for a Lahainaluna School luau, and a booklet, North China Pictorial U.S.M.C., that chronicles the III Amphibious Corps' occupation duty.
The loose photographs were removed from a soiled envelope marked "Capt W. Bryant". The photos range in size from 2" x 3" to 11" x 4.25". About half of the loose photos have "It is absolutely forbidden to reprint, reproduce or publish this photograph without the express permission of the Public Relations Dept. U.S. Marine Corps" on the reverse.
About a dozen of the loose photographs are scenes of Bryant's unit while in Hawaii, and the remainder show Marines in a jungle combat zone, presumably the Marshall Islands.
One identifies Lieutenant Damrow who online records show as being wounded while assigned to Company A, 10th Amphtrac (Amphibious Tractor) Battalion, 4th Marine Division during the… Read More