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[Anti-Aircraft Battery]

Description: Photograph of anti-aircraft batteries of the United States task force in the battle of the Santa Cruz. Two ships are in the distance with smoke above them.
Date: October 26, 1942
Creator: Smith, Loran F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Barracks Interior]

Description: Photograph of the interior of barracks in either Caledonia or Guadalcanal. Two rows of bed go across the barracks and two men are seen lying on beds across from one another. Coats and hats line the right wall of the barracks.
Date: 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

The Battle of the Solomons.

Description: Lyrical quatrain poem that rhymes on the 2nd and 4th line of each stanza on the subject of the Battle of the Solomons from the American's perspective.
Date: August 7, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Blowing Balloons]

Description: Photograph of a soldier blowing a balloon. Another soldier is sat in front of the ballon with a magazine in his lap and laughing at the other man.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Diary Entries, Eugene Houston]

Description: Handwritten diary pages from Eugene J. "Gene" Houston, who served on the U.S.S. Gillespie during World War Two. Ranging from a few words to a few sentences, the entries are dated and mention naval activities in the Pacific Theater.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Houston, Eugene J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Drinking and Smoking]

Description: Photograph of soldiers sitting around a table drinking and smoking cigars together. The table in front of them is covered in bottles, glasses, and newspapers.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Havoc on Tanambogo Island]

Description: Photograph of Tanambogo Island after a barrage from Pacific ships and planes that proceeded landing operations by U.S. Marines. A smoke pillar can be seen rising from the island. Gavutu and Florida Island can be seen in the background.
Date: 1942-08~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Inside Dugout]

Description: Photograph taken inside a Japanese dugout, the space is cramped and dirty littered with palm fronds. On the left is a box with faint Japanese characters etched or drawn on it. On the right is some wooden crate or shelf with a dirty white bowl underneath it. The ceiling is exposed and uneven stone.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Japanese Cartoon Propaganda Leaflet]

Description: A cartoon leaflet depicting a withered, scrawny solider wearing only a pair of pants, shoes and a helmet with a star. He is on his back and sprawled out on an archipelago. To the right of the soldier is Japanese text in an orange block. The back of the cartoon contains a letter written in Japanese discussing the attacks on the Japanese and their islands and the hardships faced by them.
Date: 194X
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, December 13, 1943]

Description: Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He mentions his garden is doing well, tells his parents the best way to send him mail, asks about his Christmas gifts, and discusses his difficulty getting along with his tentmate.
Date: December 13, 1943
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, January 3, 1944]

Description: Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He mentions receiving a package from Dottie, his parents going into the cutlery business, the success of the garden, and requests they have some photo prints made for him.
Date: January 3, 1944
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, May 16, 1944]

Description: Handwritten letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He mentions leaving the island and returning to living on aboard a ship. He also mentions returning some money his parents had lent him and the possibility that he and three other crewmates may go home. He asks his parents to have the Eagle change his address and discusses the protestant chaplain on board making him unsure when he'll be able to attend catholic mass.
Date: May 16, 1944
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letters Regarding the Invasion of Guadalcanal, 1942]

Description: Letter titled "Guadalcanal Tourist Bureau" painting a humorous picture of Guadalcanal to allied sailors preparing their invasion in the style of a tourism promotion. Letter titled "Guadalcanal Invasion" providing a sailor's personal account of the initial allied invasion of Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, experiencing it both from the bridge of his ship and on the beach of Tulagi.
Date: 1942~
Creator: Turner, Richmond Kelly
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: -9.101583 160.147069
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Man in a Mailroom]

Description: Photograph of a man on a ladder working in a mailroom filled with overseas mail for soldiers. The man is attempting to pick up a bag of mail while standing on the ladder.
Date: 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Man on the Look Out]

Description: Photograph of a man standing profile and overlooking dunes, and a large tent of some kind. The man is wearing a white t-shirt tucked into a utility belt and dark pants.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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