[Rarebooks] FS: Photo album--Seabees in the Philippine Islands

[Bob Petrilla]

Philippine Islands . PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DOCUMENTING THE WORK OF THE 84TH
BATTALION SEABEES (US NAVAL CONSTRUCTION BATTALION) IN THE PHILIPPINES
DURING WORLD WAR II. Original photographs. Group of 17 original photographs
showing the "can do" men of the 84th Battalion, on and off duty, at Puerto
Princesa, Palawan Island, P.I. Subjects are: Seabee boats and airplanes;
Seabee construction activities in the Puerto Princesa harbor; men playing
squash; Dick Jurgens orchestra concert at the Suluview Theatre; native
fishing craft; farewell banquet (with sign: "Good Luck 84th, Bon Voyage); a
"Bombed & shelled building which once housed Japs under false U.S. Prisoner
of War sign, Puerto Pr." (so noted on back); a close-up of a chilling metal
cell door; &c.  Black-and-white photographs, mostly 4" x 5". Very Good.
Housed in photo sleeves.
An account of the 84th Battalion's service in World War II, including their
work at Puerto Princesa, Philippine Islands, is recorded in the book "84th
Battalion Seabees, 2nd Anniversary, 1945."  $175.00

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