Album, Photograph

Name/Title

Album, Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2021.099.0015.13

Description

This is a scrapbook/photo album of World War II news wire photos and news text of the war in the Pacific. It features some graphic photos of prisoners of war and soldiers wounded or killed in action. None of the photos will be uploaded to our online archive and will only be available on the Museum's computers. The photos will be accessioned individually along with the original text supplied with the photo where it is still intact. This page shows two photos. One shows a Japanese soldier who has been killed by shellfire of his pillbox on Ebeye Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The other shows the aftermath of a Japanese station after bombing bt American Liberators on Marshall Islands.

Collection

Benicia Historical Museum Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1944