Zo836

One of 27 images I shot on the 18th of July 2020, of the Iwo Jima Memorial, just inside the main gate, on the USMC Base Kaneohe and I let the pictures tell the story.

Zo835

One of 27 images I shot on the 18th of July 2020, of the Iwo Jima Memorial, just inside the main gate, on the USMC Base Kaneohe and I let the pictures tell the story.

Zo834

One of 27 images I shot on the 18th of July 2020, of the Iwo Jima Memorial, just inside the main gate, on the USMC Base Kaneohe and I let the pictures tell the story.

Zo828

Zo828. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt meeting in Hawaii with General Douglas MacArthur (left), Admiral William D. Leahy (center), and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (standing), who is pointing to Tokyo on a large map. Date 28 July 1944, this is a Wikimedia copy. This is the URL or copy here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FDR,_MacArthur,_Leahy_and_Nimitz_cph.3c35317.jpg

Zo827

Zo827. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur, President Franklin Roosevelt, and Admiral Chester Nimitz enjoying fresh tropical fruit at Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii, 27 Jul 1944. ww2dbase. Source: ww2dbase United States Army Signal Corps. Here is the URL or click here:

https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=29088

Zo822

Zo822. The 1944 Aug. 10th PITTSFIELD MA BERKSHIRE EAGLE newspaper with an article of FDR in Hawaii.

Zo821a

Zo821a. The 1944 Aug. 10th PITTSFIELD MA BERKSHIRE EAGLE newspaper article of FDR in Hawaii.
This picture is uploaded into this Flickr album URL, if you like to download this newspaper copy in high resolution, or click here; follow the download instructions:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/50113982886/in/album-72157715101887871/

Zo821

Zo821. The 1944 Aug. 10th PITTSFIELD MA BERKSHIRE EAGLE newspaper with an article of FDR in Hawaii.
This picture is uploaded into this Flickr album URL, if you like to download this newspaper copy in high resolution, or click here; follow the download instructions:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/50113982886/in/album-72157715101887871/

Zo820

Zo820. The paper clip of FDR’s visit to Hawaii. Photo provided by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team.

Zo819

Zo819. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt meeting in Hawaii with General Douglas MacArthur (left), Admiral William D. Leahy (center), and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (standing), who is pointing to Tokyo on a large map. Date 28 July 1944.
John Duresky wrote this:
Somewhere in Corregidor Proboards I had seen a photo similar to the one attached with FDR looking at the camera. Attached photo I bought is the one used for the attached article. You’re welcome to add it if you like. One interesting point, if you look at MacArthur’s hand where he is holding what seems to be a cigar, and sleeves on him and FDR it’s obvious someone hightlighted them with pen to make them stand out more. In the photo I bought you can clearly see the highlighting done over the photo so I know it’s the original photo.

Have to hand it to FDR, for a man suffering from polio, he took a lot of trips to the European and Pacific theaters to push the war forward. Couldn’t have been easy for him.

There are a couple more photos in other papers of this same moment, heads turned slightly differently, etc., so I guess whoever took the photos sent out a few of the best ones for publication. You can see how much detail was lost in the printing of the photos in the paper versus the original photos. I guess that was as good as technology allowed for photos in papers back then.

John