Noumea

INSTITUT DE FRANCE, Académie des Sciences.

Recueil de mémoires, rapports et documents relatifs à l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le Soleil.

Librairie Voyage et Exploration · Cerny, France

€3,000.00

SEABEES IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF WWII – OKINAWA (JAPAN), RUSSELL ISLANDS (SOLOMON ISLANDS), NOUMEA (NEW CALEDON

Historically Significant Album with 272 Gelatin Silver Photographs documenting the service of the 11th Special Naval Construction Battalion Seabees in the Pacific Theatre of WWII Showing Okinawa in Japan Ruined Buildings Wrecked Japanese Aircraft and Ship Street Views with Cleary Visible French Signs and American & French Flags the Seabees Unloading Pontoon Structures Building Shoreline Encampments etc. Russel Islands in Solomon Islands Individual and Group Portraits of Locals Posing with Jewelries and Crosses Smoking Pipe Reading Life Magazine Holding an Abandoned Chinese Baby etc.; the Compiler and his Companions Doing Daily Activities and Nouméa in New Caledonia the American Red Cross a Local Church Wimpy’s Café the Headquarters of Company D 11th Special MCB Construction Battalion Building the U.S. Fleet Hospital etc.; with Three Pieces of Period Newsp

Globus Rare Books & Archives · United States

$1,250.00