U.S. Marine Melvin Mills, Oahu, March 1945

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Photograph. U.S. Marine Melvin Mills standing for picture outdoors wearing a khaki uniform. Personal caption: "Melvin Mills. Coal City, Ill. 26 March 45. Island of Oahu." Oahu, Hawaii. 26 March 1945

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03/26/1945
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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
Longitude: 
-157.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Marines (Military personnel)--Hawaii
Portrait photographs--Hawaii