1. - Pan view of campsite. We pretty
much had control of the skies and only suffered nuisance nite raids. So
rather than spread out and camouflage camp areas, they are all together.
Looks like a states side camp site, rather than a combat zone site.
2. - Gen. Kenney pins a medal on Dick
Walker, I would expect for the Rabaul missions.
3. - Jock Henebry receives one
also.
4. - On a visit to the Lae airstrip - from
whence Amelia Earhart took of in July, 1937 and flew off into oblivion - I found
the wreckage of an old Ford Trimotor. Caught my attention because the
first plane I ever saw close up was a Ford Trimotor when I was about 6 years old
in Rapid City, S.D.
5. - Tack plays solotaire in our tent at
Nadzab.
6-9 - The 89th had taken a page out of
Damon Runyon's book and named their planes after "Characters". I
photographed all of them, and they later appeared in an article in "Yank Down
Under".
10. - And here he reads a good
book.
11. - Norm Nelson was a full blooded
Pnobscot Indian from Tack's home town.
12. - Here Tack has a piece of cake -
probably 6 weeks old by the time it got to us.
13. - Decoration formation at
Nadzab.
14. - Here's Tack with a derelict jap
plane. 15. - Our living quarters at Nadzab
16-18. - B-25D 41-30345 8th
BS 3rd BG Lost August 28, 1943
Hit
by bomb blast of preceding plane while attacking an enemy ship on Hansa Bay,
New Guinea. Crashed into Hansa Bay.
1st
Lt Robert B WIDENER (MIA/KIA), 8th BS
2nd
Lt Bernard LAZARUS (MIA/KIA), 8th BS
Sgt
James W LEFLER (MIA/KIA), 8th BS
Sgt
Francis M MONAHAN (MIA/KIA), 8th BS