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1944 · WRCAM54351 — At sea in the South Pacific and on Guam 1944. Twenty loose photographs. Minor wear a few images slightly faded. Very good. An interesting and unique group of annotated photographs from an unknown United States Navy midshipman aboard the USS PRESIDENT MONROE recording activities in the Pacific Theater during World War II. All twenty photographs have notes written on one or both sides. The USS PRESIDENT MONROE was built just prior to World War II and proved instrumental during the Gilbert Islands invasion the operations in the Marshall Islands and at the invasion of Guam. All three of these events are memorialized here with images of the Navy on and in the waters around Guam a shot of indigenous people and another of a U.S. tank on Tarakawa Gilbert Islands and shots of prisoners of war captured on the Marshall Islands. <br> <br> Five of the photographs show the Japanese and Korean prisoners of war in the sick bay aboard the MONROE. Four of the photographs depict Japanese prisoners; one image shows Korean captives. One shot shows a Navy doctor performing a surgical procedure on one of the wounds of the "Wounded Jap prisoner of war.captured in Marshall Islands." Another photograph of a struggling Japanese P.O.W. is annotated on the verso "Wounded Jap prisoner of war in sick bay on board USS Pres. Monroe was captured on Marshall Islands. Note shrapnel wounds on legs." The notation on the back of a photograph picturing a trio of P.O.W.s standing amidst armed American soldiers reads: "Korean war prisoners captured on Kwajalein Marshall Islands. Picture was taken in brig on U.S.S. Pres. Monroe." Other images show the destruction of Kwajalein one of the Marshall Islands and Navy men on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. unknown books