View from a hillside looking down at ships in the harbor, Guam
Gift in Memory of Sherman R. Spivey and in Honor of Ruby M. Spivey
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Photograph. View into Pacific Bay with open LST [Landing Ship Tank] 2, two LCMs [Landing Craft Mechanized and an unidentified sunken ship. LST has unique camouflage measure. Personal caption on photo reverse:"Igania Bay at Guam." Agana Bay, Guam. [1945]
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1945
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Items from the service of Sherman R. Spivey, who was born on 6 July 1917 in Kemp, Texas. Spivey enlisted in the Army on 14 September 1940 and served in the Army Air Force as an airplane maintenance technician. He left for the Pacific Theatre with the 41st Bombardment Squadron, 501st Bombardment Group in May of 1945 and returned stateside in November of 1945. He was Honorably Discharged on 1 December 1945. Collection includes seventy photographs, a few military documents, insignia, and a mess kit knife.
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Harbors--Guam