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[ADG Band Performing at G.I. Dance]

Photograph of an Airport Depot Group band playing at G.I. Dance in La Tontouta, New Caledonia. The band is arranged in two lines behind a small white picket fence - one row is sitting and playing the sax while the rest of the horns stand behind them alongside a drummer. On the right side sits a man playing the piano with a man standing behind him playing the bass.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Others Looking Over a Map]

Photograph of Chester W. Nimitz sitting at a table overlooking a map with three other men standing around him. Nimitz and the man directly to his right are in identical light-colored uniform jackets with decorated epaulettes and black ties. The man to Nimitz left wears a collared button-down shirt and pants. The man on the far right has both hands on the table and wears a dark uniform jacket with two-star pins on either side of the shoulders and light-colored pants.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Sits in Armchair]

Photograph of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz as he sits in a dark colored armchair with his hands clasped in his lap. he is wearing a light-colored uniform with two pockets on the front, a collared shirt and dark tie. In front of Admiral Nimitz is a small round table with a teacup, saucer and teaspoon on top of it.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Army Soldiers Dancing with Nurses in New Caledonia]

Photograph of G.I.s dancing with nurses and Red Cross staff at dance in New Caledonia.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Barracks Interior]

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
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Beach on the Isle of Pines, #1]

Photograph of a beach on the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. The image shows several trees including a large palm trees, bushes and the thin strip of sand as it meets the ocean.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Beach on the Isle of Pines, #2]

Photograph of a beach on the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. The image shows several trees including a large palm trees, bushes and the thin strip of sand as it meets the ocean.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Beach on the Isle of Pines, #3]

Photograph of a beach on the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. The image shows several large branches on the ground, bushes and the thin strip of sand as it meets the ocean.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Becky Van Meter Pinning Purple Heart on Sailor]

Photograph of Becky Van Meter on the right pinning a Purple Heart to one sailor in a line of them with an officer standing to her left.
Date: August 1944
Creator: Wilcox, E. E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bow of the Evaleeta]

Photograph of Evaleeta's bow taken from just underneath the bowsprit. There are a variety of ropes and chains in view.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bow View of the Evaleeta]

Photograph of taken from a distance of the bow of the Evaleeta. The ship has all the sails furled, and the light is low casting it in silhouette.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Buildings on the Beach of the Isle of Pines]

Photograph of two buildings nestled behind palm trees on the beach of the Isle of Pines.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Buildings on the Isle of Pines]

Photograph of two buildings on the right of a grass footpath. The far building is on a raised platform with a wraparound porch. The building closer to the camera is made of brick and is very damaged. On the left of the path is a large tree bare of leaves.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Captain at the Helm of the Evaleeta]

Photograph of the captain at the wheel of the Evaleeta turned towards an open door to his right. He is wearing a striped t-shirt, dark pants, a brimmed hat and glasses. The helm is boxed off and coved with a slanted roof. In the doorway to the captain's right stands another man mostly hidden behind one of the walls surrounding the helm.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carol Weaverling in Uniform at Purple Heart Ceremony]

Photograph of Carol Weaverling in uniform at a Purple Heart presentations ceremony outside the Fleet Hospital, Noumea, New Caledonia. Three men in uniform's stand behind Carol, and a woman in a white, Red Cross Nurse uniform stands on the left taking to another serviceman.
Date: 1944~
Creator: United States. Navy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: A Belated Salute to the Women of WWII] (open access)

[Clipping: A Belated Salute to the Women of WWII]

Newspaper clipping of a part of an article about female World War 2 veterans meeting at the Georgia World Congress Center.
Date: unknown
Creator: McCarthy, Rebecca
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cluttered Deck of the Evaleeta]

Photograph taken on the deck of the Evaleeta. Piles of things and ropes are everywhere, a sailor lays on his back in the center of the deck, another stands shirtless with his back to the camera and a rope in hand. The bottom half of a large sail fills the top portion of the image.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convention concerning migratory fish stock in the Pacific Ocean : message from the President of the United States transmitting Convention on the Conservation and Management of the Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, with annexes ("WCPF Convention"), which was adopted at Honolulu on September 5, 2000, by the Multilateral High Level Conference on the Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (open access)

[Cook Stands Shirtless on the Evaleeta]

Photograph of the cook on the Evaleeta posing with his hand on his hip shirtless. He is wearing long dark pants and a belt.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cook Washes Dishes on the Evaleeta]

Photograph of a man, identified only as Pong is crouched down doing dishes on the Evaleeta. He is wearing a white shirt cut at the elbows, jeans and a belt. In his hand is a bowl and a mug he is washing.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crew Brings Boat Ashore, #1]

Photograph of a crew of men in tank tops and shorts surrounding a sailboat on a beach. The men are being watched by three young boys sitting on the sand with their backs to the camera. Behind the ship and crew are serval palm trees.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crew Brings Boat Ashore, #2]

Photograph of a crew of men in tank tops and shorts surrounding a sailboat on a beach. The men are being watched by several young boys sitting on the sand with their backs to the camera. Behind the ship and crew are serval palm trees.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crew Brings Boat Ashore, #3]

Photograph of a crew of men in tank tops and shorts surrounding a sailboat on a beach. The men are being watched by several young boys sitting on the sand with their backs to the camera. Behind the ship and crew are serval palm trees.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crew Offloads Car from Dinghy, #1]

Photograph of several men dressed in light colored t-shirt and shorts standing in front of a makeshift ramp coming off a small dinghy boat. In the boat is a car with a driver in military uniform attempting to drive it over the wooden planks into the shallow water. In the background a beach, trees and a mountain range can be seen.
Date: August 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History