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UA 476.39 Gerald W. Elkins Collection

UA 476.39 Gerald W. Elkins Collection
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Title: UA 476.39 Gerald W. Elkins Collection
Caption: Collection Photo "Boot Camp NAVSTA San Diego, CA 1941."
Description: Collection of several dozen photographs from a scrapbook showing the World War II service of Gerald W. Elkins. Photographs show boot camp in San Diego, California; Guadalcanal after the conclusion of fighting; Additional photographs from Guadalcanal show the stockade for Japanese POWs and Barber's Point; Atlantic Reserve Fleet at US Naval Station Orange, Texas; scenes on Oahu, Hawaii; a graduation photograph from Company 41-98; Commissary Store personnel at Lakehurst, NJ; donor in a recruitment staff photograph from Pittsburgh, PA in 1947. One additional photograph shows USS Chandeleur (AV-10).
Accession #: UA 476
Catalog #: UA 476.39
Donor: Gerald W. Elkins
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