[1894 Aviation Engineer Battalion Group Photo]

Photograph of 1894th Aviation Engineer Battalion members in full uniform in two rows in front of tents in an unknown location. The service members are seated in the first two rows and a row of service members are standing behind them. The service members on the far left side of the photo are blurred.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1894 Aviation Engineer Battalion Members Using Crane to Move Equipment]

Photograph of military service members from the 1894 Aviation Engineer Battalion moving equipment using a crane. One service member is positioned in front of a tire with their back to the camera. In the distance, a group of service members stand off the to the right of the crane's arm.
Date: June 6, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1894th Aviation Engineer Battalion Members Posing in Front of Tents]

Photograph of 1894th Aviation Engineer Battalion members in full uniform in two rows in front of tents.
Date: [1944,1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[368th Infantry Regiment Band Playing During a Reception for Admiral Halsey]

Photograph of the 368th Infantry Regiment band playing during a reception for Admiral Halsey outside in the Philippines. A group of soliders holding a variety of instruments stand in formantion in front of a forest of palm trees. A soldier stands in the foreground commanding their attention.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[857th Aviation Engineer Battalion Song]

Wartime copy of the music sheet for the 857th Aviation Engineer Battalion song composed, in part, by Everette "Tex" Frazier. This copy was presented and dedicated to the commanding officer of the unit, Lt. Col. William E. Hotchkiss.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Finkelstein, L. B.; Frazier, Everette Edell; Francis, W.; Harris, C. & Shropshil, R.
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Band Playing Music Aboard Ship at Sea]

Photograph of a band in military uniform playing music while others watch aboard unknown ship at sea. There is man seated at the forefront playing a keyboard instrument, a man behind him plays the drum and another seating on his left is holding a trumpet. A group of people watch from behind them.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Grimes, Miller J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cargo Boxes Piled on Yellow Beach, Okinawa]

Photograph of a section of Yellow Beach, Okinawa, Japan covered in wooden cargo crates and longshoremen sorting through cargo. A water tower is visible in the background.
Date: October 17, 1945
Creator: Ryan, Gerald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[An Engineer Using a Bulldozer to Clear a Field]

Photograph of an engineer operating a bulldozer and clearing a field in an unknown location.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engineer Working on a Fuel Tank]

Photograph of an engineer working on fuel tank, wreckage can be seen strewn about, and a machine of some sort sits on the right mostly out of frame.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engineers Clearing Field with Equipment]

Photograph of two engineers sitting inside a machine clearing field in unknown location. The number 7 is displayed on the back of the machine.
Date: [1944,1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engineers Digging a Trench]

Photograph of engineers digging a trench, one stands above the trench on the left while the rest of the men stand in it.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engineers Laying Pipe in Field]

Photograph of engineers laying pipe in an unknown field. Four soldiers are clustered around a piece of pipe lying in a field of tall plants. Two soldiers are standing and two are bending over the pipe laid on the ground.
Date: [1944,1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engineers Preparing Dynamite]

Photograph of two engineers preparing dynamite over some rocks in an unknown location. In the center of the photo, an engineer is crouching down and wrapping a coil around a dynamite sticks. Other sticks on lying on top of a large rock.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engineers Work on Large Equipment]

Photograph of five engineers working on large equipment in an unknown location. One stands on the left almost out of frame, three are crouched over in the center and one is one the left with only his head visible over the men in the center.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: United States. Army. Air Corps.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Excavator Digs in Quarry]

Photograph of an excavator digging in a quarry in an unknown location. The boom of the excavator with a pulley at the top is extended towards the wall of the quarry as the bucket at the end of the arm digs into the quarry wall. The number "76 - 407" printed on the side of the excavator.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Faceless Engineer Operating Drill]

Photograph of an engineer operating a drill in an unknown location, he is standing in the upper right-hand corner and his face is not in frame.
Date: [1944,1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man Using a Bulldozer to Clear a Field]

Photograph of a man sitting on top of a bulldozer and clearing a field in an unknown location.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men Sitting on Badly Stacked Cargo at Yellow Beach, Okinawa]

Photograph of four longshoremen sitting on stacked cargo at Yellow Beach, Okinawa, Japan. Many of the cargo boxes in the foreground are overturned or broken.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Gerald Ryan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Orchestra Playing on Iwo Jima]

Photograph of a fourteen-piece orchestra playing onstage during summer 1945 on Iwo Jima, two rows of the audience's heads are also in view.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photographs of Crew Getting Ready for Captain's Inspection on U.S.S. Keokuk]

Scrapbook page with three photographs of stewards preparing for Captain's inspection on U.S.S. Keokuk (CMc-6). The three photographs are affixed one above the other to a page with the caption "Getting ready for Captain's inspection" handwritten next to the top photo. A white star on a blue background appears to the right of each photo. In the top photo, a Black service member in a white uniform is looking at the camera while other crew members sit or stand nearby. To his left a white crew member stands at an open door. In the middle photo a group of Black service members pose in white dress uniforms. To their left, a white crew member stands at an open door. In the bottom photo, a crew member looks at the camera from behind the inner workings of the ship. Crew members stand or sit nearby. The word "Holt" is written to the right of the photo with an arrow pointing towards it.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Welgo, Louis J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Press Release: Gun Crew on Coast Guard Cutter Campbell Aided in Attack That Sank Sub] (open access)

[Press Release: Gun Crew on Coast Guard Cutter Campbell Aided in Attack That Sank Sub]

Text of press release dated April 20, 1963 listing the names of eleven service members enlisted in the United States Coast Guard who participated in an attack that resulted in the sinking of a German submarine.
Date: April 20, 1943
Creator: United States. Department of the Navy.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Quarry Equipment]

Photograph of quarry equipment related to the 1894 Aviation Engineer Battalion. In the foreground the combustion equipment can be seen, including a boiler. Two service members can be seen standing by the equipment in the background.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Seaside Chapel]

Photograph of a worn a chapel with a wooden sign saying, "Seaside Chapel" with a wooden cross on top.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Servicemen Driving Trucks in Convoy]

Photograph of servicemen driving trucks in convoy on a dirt road in an unknown location. In the center of the photo, a man is seated in the cab of the truck looking at the camera, with two men sitting beside him. In the background, rows of tents can be seen.
Date: [1944,1945]
Creator: Maceiras, Richard P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History