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ť Topic: Claire's Father
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Anyone recogniz[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/clairefather-1.jpg[/image] the location of this photo?

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Jan 20, 2012 - 1:47pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm

I know the picture was taken March 2, 1944 and it says somewhere in New Guinea...My father was RON 24. Thanks Will, Claire

Posted By: Claire | Posted on: Jan 21, 2012 - 6:27am
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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

Posted By: Gary Paulsen | Posted on: Jan 21, 2012 - 10:56am
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Thanks Gary, every piece of the puzzle helps!
Claire

Posted By: Claire | Posted on: Jan 22, 2012 - 5:35am
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