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[Marines at Red Cross Tent]

Description: Photograph of Marines on Bougainville gathering around the Red Cross center there to read the latest news. The Red Cross center is a tent pitched with wooden stakes with Marines lined up underneath it and it's surrounded by trees. There is also a small wooden sign with "Red Cross" written across it to mark the tent.
Date: April 4, 1944
Creator: Batts, J. J.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Ungroomed Marines Being Addressed by Officer]

Description: Photograph of a presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia, in August of 1944. Four Marines are lined up and standing at attention for an officer standing in front of them, while women service members hold papers off to the left alongside another officer.
Date: August 1944
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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