Green Island. In Swimming, about the 5th Day. There was a Lot of Digging Before That.

Nude soldiers recline or walk along a beach lined with palm trees. Nude soldiers recline or walk along a beach lined with palm trees. Piblished in Yank, April 21, 1944, page 9 as: "After the invasion the soldiers went in swimming whenever they got a chance. This was on the fifth day." Note on verso: "Green Island, The Admiraltys, South Pacific. With the New Zealanders." Censor's stamps.

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Original record: Green Island. In Swimming, about the 5th Day. There was a Lot of Digging Before That.
Collection: Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Date(s): 1944
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Greenhalgh, Robert F., 1915-2017 (artist)
Subject(s): Drawings (Visual Works)
World War, 1939-1945
Yank
Type: still image

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