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[Nurses and Wounded Soldiers Trim a Christmas Tree]
Photograph of wounded soldiers and Red Cross nurses decorate and trim a small Christmas tree at Fleet Hospital in New Caledonia. Two soldiers sit on each bed with the small Christmas Tree propped up between them with a nurse on either side.
Date:
December 23, 1944
Creator:
United States. Navy
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Wounded Soldiers in Beds at Fleet Hospital]
Photograph of five soldiers lying in sick beds at Fleet Hospital 107, Ward 3, in Noumea, New Caledonia. Pictured on the left at the end the row of beds stands a man and women in service uniforms.
Date:
[1944..1945]
Creator:
United States. Navy
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Red Cross Staff Sit in Front of Fleet Hospital]
Photograph of women on the Red Cross Staff in front of the Fleet Hospital 107 in Noumea, New Caledonia. Seated on the wooden steps from left to right: Jane Mayhew, Secretary; Carolyn Perabe, Recreation; Carol Weaverling, AFD; Rebecca Van Meter, Recreation. A sign with the symbol and words "American Red Cross" is in front a building behind them.
Date:
October 4, 1944
Creator:
United States. Navy
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
[New Caledonia Dance]
Photograph of G.I.s dancing with nurses and Red Cross staff at a dance in New Caledonia. In the front of the people dancing are two tables covered in cups and tins, two women sit at the second table and a service member is leaning down to the woman on the left facing the camera.
Date:
[1944..1945]
Creator:
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[New Caledonia Dance, #2]
Photograph of G.I.s dancing with nurses and Red Cross staff at dance in New Caledonia. A couple stands in the center of the photograph with the man's back turned to the camera, and there are two couples shown behind them and one just out of frame on the left.
Date:
[1944..1945]
Creator:
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
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
[New Caledonia Dance Goers Sit at Tables]
Photograph of G.I.s, nurses, and Red Cross Staff sitting at two tables talking at a 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
[Eleanor Roosevelt Speaking in Red Cross Uniform]
Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt in Red Cross uniform speaks to crowd while standing in front of several servicemen and women as well as Admiral Halsey and some cars.
Date:
1944~
Creator:
Thibodeau, Laura M.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Purple Heart Recipients]
Photograph of a group of Purple Heart recipients taken at a Purple Heart ceremony in Noumea, New Caledonia. The recipients are in two lines, the back line all standing, and the front seated.
Date:
August 1944
Creator:
Wilcox, E. E.
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
[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
[New Caledonia Dance, #4]
Photograph of three G.I.s dancing with nurses and Red Cross staff at dance in New Caledonia, in front of the band sitting behind a white picket fence.
Date:
[1944..1945]
Creator:
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, November 30, 1944]
Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He discusses mail coming through, people back home, the new liberties he has in Nouméa, New Caledonia, his plans to listen to the Texas A&M game broadcast, his parents cutlery business, and his Christmas gift for Dottie.
Date:
November 30, 1944
Creator:
Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Sermon from Fr. Lawrence Edward Lynch, November 26, 1944]
Transcript of a sermon given by Father Lawrence Edward Lynch that was broadcast over radio on November 26, 1944 from Nouméa, New Caledonia. The sermon titled, "How to Get Even with God", deals with the desire to get even with people, including God, how sin cheats people out of their equality and friendship with God, and how to atone for their sins.
Date:
November 26, 1944
Creator:
Lynch, Lawrence Edward
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History