U.S. Marine Forest K. Karnes smiles in jeep, Oahu, April 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Marine Forest K. Karnes sitting in jeep and smiling for camera. Personal Caption: "7 April, 1945. Island of Oahu. Forest Karnes. (Detroit, Mich)." Oahu, Hawaii. 7 April 1945
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04/07/1945
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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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Oahu
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21.433
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-157.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Marines (Military personnel)--Hawaii
Portrait photographs--Hawaii
Military uniforms--American--Hawaii