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

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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

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Zo826. President Roosevelt and General MacArthur at the Honolulu Conference of 1944.
This document, in my view, is undo critical of Gen. MacArthur. To me, it seems, that at this time they already had many Political Correct Writers and news men!!!!!!!!
This is PDF document with 9 pages and 2 pictures is available with this URL or click here:

https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/115/JL38171.pdf?sequence=2

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Zo825. The 1944 Aug. 10th PITTSFIELD MA BERKSHIRE EAGLE newspaper with an article of FDR in Hawaii.

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Zo824. The 1944 Aug. 10th PITTSFIELD MA BERKSHIRE EAGLE newspaper with an article of FDR in Hawaii.

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Zo823. The 1944 Aug. 10th PITTSFIELD MA BERKSHIRE EAGLE newspaper with an article of FDR in Hawaii.

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Zo810. This slim, fast Japanese Landing Craft is commonly referred to as the Hydroplane.

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Zo809. Daihatsu (Army) Large MLC, it is also termed Type “A” Landing Craft (Army).

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Zo818. A nest of LCVPs (from other ships) secured to our ship’s (LSD-2) Starboard Quarter during one of our amphibious operations in the Far East (WESTPAC) in 1962.

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Zo817. Yours truly, Assault Boat Coxswain Karl Welteke, in 1962 on our ship’s (USS Belle Grove LSD-2) only LCVP. When I reported on board in Oct 1960, they sent me to the Assault Boat Coxswain School in San Diego because I wanted to be a Boatswains Mate. I was a Gung Ho Sailor and I’m sure I helped the ship get a good Amphibious Training Mark. He is what I remember about the LCVP: 35 feet long, 35 combat troops, 8 ½ feet wide, 8 tons heavy, 225 HP Gray Marine Diesel Eng.