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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 H55 2007 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17900 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781604611977 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 767.4
- Item number - H55 2007
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Hill, Frederick H.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Darkroom soldier :
- Remainder of title - photographs and letters from the South Pacific Theater World War II /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Frederick H. Hill ; with George Venn
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - La Grande, OR :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Photosmith Books,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2007.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - vii, 287 pages
- Other physical details - illustrations
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - With bibliography
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - October 6-28, 1943: Newport News, Virginia, to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on the USS General John Pope -- November 4-16, 1943: Milne Bay, Papua, New Guinea -- November 18, 1943-March 26, 1944: Dobodura, Papua, New Guinea -- March 26-June 30, 1944: Finschhafen, Papua, New Guinea -- July 3-27, 1944: On the SS Russell Sage, Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea -- July 28-October 21, 1944: Biak, West Papua, Netherlands East Indies on the SS Juan Cabrillo -- October 28, 1944-January 3, 1945: Tacloban and Dulag, Leyte, the Philippines -- January 7-April 4, 1945: San Jose, Mindoro/Manila, Luzon, The Philippines -- April 4-July 29, 1945: Binmaley, Luzon, The Philippines -- July 29-August 22, 1945: Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, East China Sea -- September 5-October 1, 1945: Manila, Luzon to Seattle, Washington on the SS Cape Victory
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "In this book, readers will find an intimate, articulate, and visual record of human endurance and humane understanding during a difficult and inhuman time.
That record was created between October 1943 and October 1945, while Sgt Fred Hill served as a Photography Lab Chief in the 17th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, Pacific Theater. Like the men in other such squadrons, Sgt Hill and his crew--most of whom were already civilian photographers--set up and operated darkrooms to process the aerial photographs brought back by planes that had flown over Japanese-held territory. Sometimes, when the enemy threatened, loud anti-aircraft guns fired three red warning flares over their canvas tents, and these darkroom soldiers ran for their foxholes. However, if these men were to provide critical target and topographic photographs to commanders and pilots--photos that saved innumerable lives--they had to be removed from combat.
During off hours over those two years, Hill wrote his wife Martha some 315 letters. In many of those letters, the young photographer--married only eleven months before he shipped out--also enclosed his black-and-white photographs and negatives--hundreds of prints and exposures created with multiple cameras. Martha saved every text, every image. The letters she sorted into bundles, tied them with cotton string, stored them in a box in the basement. The photos she pasted into albums; the negatives she saved in envelopes and sleeves..." - From the Introduction
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Hill, Frederick H.
- Dates associated with a name - 1920-
- General subdivision - Correspondence.
- Personal name - Hill, Frederick H.
- General subdivision - Photograph collections.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Photography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Reconnaissance operations, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Aerial operations, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Pacific Area.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Photographers
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Correspondence.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - United States
- General subdivision - Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th.
- Geographic name - United States
- General subdivision - Correspondence.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Venn, George.
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