Author |
Topic: Claire's Father |
|
Will Day
TOP BOSS
|
Posted on: Jan 20, 2012 - 1:47pm
|
Anyone recogniz the location of this photo?
Will |
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined:
Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm | IP
Logged
|
|
Claire
New Member
|
Posted on: Jan 21, 2012 - 6:27am
|
I know the picture was taken March 2, 1944 and it says somewhere in New Guinea...My father was RON 24. Thanks Will, Claire
|
Total Posts: | Joined:
Unregistered | IP
Logged
|
|
Gary Paulsen
MASTER
|
Posted on: Jan 21, 2012 - 10:56am
|
Clair,
From the book At Close Quarters:
"By March 1944, Dreger Harbor was becoming a rear area. Most of the Japanese had been forced from the Huon Peninsula to Madang, in Astrolabe Bay. The next job for the boats -- already they had started to work on it from Dreger -- was to cut the barge supply line to Madang.
On March 4, Squadron 24, under Lt. Comdr. N. Burt Davis, Jr., started operations from a new base at Saidor, the first of the advance base units planned by Commander Mumma and assembled in Milne Bay. On March 17 LST 201 arrived at the new base. The site was Nom Plantation. Squadron humorists called it Nom de Nom Plantation, a name that later found its way into many official reports."
May help narrow your search.
Gary
|
Total Posts: 249 | Joined:
Feb 14, 2009 - 6:31am | IP
Logged
|
|
|
Claire |
New Member
|
Posted on: Jan 22, 2012 - 5:35am
|
Thanks Gary, every piece of the puzzle helps!
Claire
|
Total Posts: | Joined:
Unregistered | IP
Logged
|
|
|