[SuziQ]

Those are terrific pictures!! I love the one in the Guam series, where the three Admirals and the General are kicking back in the tent, and someone has leaned a door up against the tent pole so folks could hang hats, etc. on it.

Who took the pictures, and where did they come from, after all this time?

[pansgold]

They are sets created from official photos taken by Marine combat photographers. The set(s) were offered for sale to the troops before they shipped out and headed for home. My dad bought sets but only for the places he served like China, Guam, Okinawa and Iwo Jima.

The Library if Congress should have some of the sets. These photos were in a box in my mom’s basement. After dad died in 1994 my sisters discovered them and scanned them for me and I posted them for some of the old vets.