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With my photo supply assistant finishing the photo lab's sign. Not long after, in August 1947, I was tapped to be an aerial
photographer.
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A rare sight over the Pacific. It wasn't often one of the squadron's RB-17s, AKA F-9C, met another while away from Momote.
This one, 483653, was returning to base for Thanksgiving. We were headed there for the same reason.
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Dining out in Rabaul, New Britain. The taxi wasn't the fanciest but got us where we needed to go. Our lodging was in a hotel
run by an Australian woman. A flight lunch she prepared for us one day consisted of cucumber and butter sandwiches on white
bread, crust neatly trimmed off of course.
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At Momote after a flight in one of our trusty RC-45s. I'm at left with instructor Paul Tudor, center, and flight engineer
Dominick Bruno.
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Not the best of photos but this was the chapel at the military cemetery on Guadalcanal not far from Henderson
Field. Not long after, graves registration teams removed the cemetery's occupants.
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Flight engineers Dominick Bruno and Merrel Hethorn holding up our plane at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
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