American servicemen gathered around Christmas cake, Hawaii, December 1945
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Photograph. Group of uniformed American servicemen gathered indoors around Christmas cake being cut with samurai sword. Personal caption: "Christmas Eve - 1945. Pearl Harbor, T.H. Mother - That's a Japanese samurai sword being used to cut the cake with - it being the only thing big enuff [sic] and available at the time. That cake is 18 lbs. [illegible name]." Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 24 December 1945
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12/24/1945
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Items from the service of Mr. Rogers Lional Hogan, who was born in Gretna, Louisiana, on July 18, 1917. Hogan worked for the Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans before he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in February of 1941. Hogan served in the Pacific Theatre. He was in Saipan and Guam in 1944 and spent the rest of the war in Hawaii at the Fleet Marine Force, Pacific (FMFPAC) base through the summer of 1946. The collection includes 473 photographs depicting Hogan's time in the Pacific Theatre.
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Pearl Harbor
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21.350
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-157.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military personnel--American--Hawaii
Holidays--American--Hawaii
Christmas trees--Hawaii
Cakes--Hawaii
Daggers & swords