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Image Captions

Only twenty five of the 244 pictures I have scanned were marked with captions. Below is a list of those twenty five. I am assuming the captions were written some time later (perhaps many years after the war) due to some inconsistent dating, see caption for ww2_012. All captions are written in block capitals except those noted. The text within the brackets is mine.

ww2_002 - "D.E.M.L."

ww2_003 - "D.E.M.L. ; about to leave for desert center"

ww2_004 - "D.E.M.L. '42 Mess Hall"

ww2_005 - "Salton Sea, Calif"

ww2_007 - "Bill Bauman '42"

ww2_008 - "Camp Cook[e], Calif"

ww2_009 - "Camp Cook[e], Calif ; Laundry"

ww2_011 - "Los Ang[e]les Calif"

ww2_012 - "Loaded up for the drive from Camp Cooke to Tenn. Man[e]uvers  1942" [The date here is probably incorrect. Other records indicate that he remained at Camp Cooke into the next year, beginning maneuvers at Ft. Knox in late March, 1943.]

ww2_013 - "McMinville, Tenn."

ww2_015 - "Tenn"

ww2_017 - "Twenty Nine Palms, Cal California"

ww2_018 - "Palm Springs Calif."

ww2_019 - "L.A. Calif" [written in cursive]

ww2_020 - "Thousand Islands NY"

ww2_021 - "Palm Springs Calif"

ww2_022 - "Palm Springs Calif"

ww2_023 - "Palm Springs Calif"

ww2_024 - "Palm Springs Calif"

ww2_070 - "Wallen**** [last part of the word is illegible, perhaps Wallendorf?] Germany"

ww2_127 - "Master Sgt. Lighte[n]" ["n" appears to have been cropped off, see caption for ww2__160]

ww2_149 - "German-__[?]__ Border" [most of the 1st and all of the 2nd word are cropped off]

ww2_160 - "Ohagan, Lighten & ?"

ww2_166 - "John T. O'Hagen" [I am not sure of the correct spelling of the last name here, it is spelled slightly different on other images, see captions for ww2_160 and ww2_243]

ww2_243 - "John t' O'Hagan   The best Irishman and friend I believe I ever had." [neatly printed in upper and lower-case]