American servicemen with cake and Christmas tree, Pearl Harbor, December 1945

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Photograph. American servicemen indoors near Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. One of the servicemen is using a samurai sword to cut a cake. Personal Caption: "Taken -- Dec 24 1945. Pearl Harbor, T.H." Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 24 December 1945

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12/24/1945
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Items from the service of Mr. Rogers Lional Hogan, who was born in Gretna, Louisiana, on July 18, 1917. Hogan worked for the Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans before he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in February of 1941. Hogan served in the Pacific Theatre. He was in Saipan and Guam in 1944 and spent the rest of the war in Hawaii at the Fleet Marine Force, Pacific (FMFPAC) base through the summer of 1946. The collection includes 473 photographs depicting Hogan's time in the Pacific Theatre.
Geography: 
Pearl Harbor
Latitude: 
21.350
Longitude: 
-157.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Military personnel--American--Hawaii
Christmas trees--Hawaii
Holidays--American--Hawaii
Group portraits--Hawaii
Daggers & swords