LST-726 Photos

2016.148.02

Album, Photograph

Collection of 25 black & white photographic prints of various crewmembers, equipment, and scenes on or around LST-726. Prints are not original photographs and were trimmed haphazardly before being mailed and stored in no discernable order. Some photos have descriptions or information written on back in pen. Descriptions of the photos in order of how they were found/mounted below.

.01 - "White, Hanes, & Me (Eldon Lee Williams); Nov 20 1945; Okinawa"
.02 - "Sours, Canadian, & ?"
.03 - "Okinawa; Nov 20 1945; Wilbanks, Hanes, Tevey, Spears, Miller, Zimmerman & Eldon Lee Williams"
.04 - "Eldon Lee Williams taken at Sorebo, Japan on board ship Oct 6, 1945"
.05 - "Eldon & Sours"
.06 - "Eldon Lee Williams"
.07 - LST-726 landing, photo from off starboard bow
.08 - "Eldon's ship on the beach in Okinawa. Something else written about a severe storm 327351"
.09 - "Frank; Sorebo, Japan; Oct 6, 1945"
.10 - "This ship LST 726 is in Dry Dock for ship repairs"
.11 - "Invasion of Okinawa"
.12 - Officers Talking
.13 - Officers Photo
.14 - "Eldon's ship 726 hauled this ship over to Okinawa on top of their ship & this is where they dumped it off their ship at Okinawa. 327351"
.15 - "Dragging off tembers & stuff [sic] in a small boat after dumping off the other ship; 327351"
.16 - "Laundry lines on board Eldon's ship. 327351"
.17 - Crew Muster
.18 - "Officer"
.19 - Award Presentation
.20 - "Ceremony giving one of the officers Purple Heart for burns in invasion of Okinawa."
.21 - "Man that recieved [sic] the Purple Heart"
.22 - Sailor on Main Deck of LST-726
.23 - "Cooks"
.24 - "One of the cooks"
.25 - Sailor at Stern

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