B-26 Marauder Historical Society WWII Archive Photos from Don Mitchell's Album

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Don Mitchell, Photo Section, initially in the 22nd Bomb Group,
later in the 38th Bomb Group put together a photo Album that started December 7, 1941.

This is a 167 page album of excellent quality pictures
Generally there are 4 standard Military photos 3.5" X 4.5" on each page.
From time to time selections will be added in chronological order.

A suggested reference are the maps of the SW Pacific and New Guinea

Title	Dates	Location	Unit	Page
Don Mitchell June 1998	June 1998	Orlando, VA	(retired)	intro
Flight Schedule 12-08-41	Dec. 8, 1941	Langley Field, VA	18th Recon Sq	1
Enhancements of the blackboard	Dec. 8, 1941	Langley Field, VA	18th Recon Sq	1
Pvt. Chicosola of WWI vintage	Dec. 8, 1941	Langley Field, VA	18th Recon Sq	1
PX set up in tent	Jan 1942	Muroc, CA	22nd BG	2
Wood pile at Muroc	Jan 1942	Muroc, CA	22nd BG	3
Mess Kit wash stand	Jan 1942	Muroc, CA	22nd BG	4
War Bond sales	Jan 1942	Muroc, CA	22nd BG	5
War Bond sales	Jan 1942	Muroc, CA	22nd BG	6
Reid River	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	7
Sheep at Reid River	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	7
Jeep at Reid River	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	8
Bath at Reid River	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	9
bomb loading practice	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	9
photo chemical lab jungle style	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	10
Robert K. Bell, photo gunner	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	11
washing aerial film	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	11
Photo gunners Debral (sp?) and Gunther	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	12
PX with customers	early 1942	Reid River	22nd BG	13
mess hall. probably Reid River	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	14
R. K. Bell holding wallarule	1942	Australia	22nd BG	15
Wallaby ?? pet sitting in camera	1942	Australia	22nd BG	16
Wallaby ?? and shoe on jeep	1942	Australia	22nd BG	16
Pagloso & Brand holding a black hog	1942	Australia	22nd BG	17
Wallaby Castle Reid River officer's club	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	19
Wallaby Castle men at bar	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	20
O'Neill & Divine	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	21
Ray Burles Navigator	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	21
Dill Ellis Navigator	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	22
Ray Burles Navigator	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	22
Wallaby or young Wallarule	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	23
Lizard	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	24
Wallaby Castle card game	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	25
Col. Brian O'Neill color photo	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	26
Photo section photo	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	27
High jump	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	29
"beer bust"	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	29
Party	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	30
Hunters' trophy	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	32
Don Mitchell great hunter	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	33
Australian camp enviornment	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	34
Machine gun trainer	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	35
Photo Section office?	1942	Reid River	22nd BG	36
Swimming hole or bathtub?	1942	N. Territory Australia	38th BG	37
Delux transportation	1942	N. Territory Australia	38th BG	38
photo trailer	1942	Brisbane to Darwin	38th BG	39
tin - silver mine	1942	Queensland, Australia	38th BG	39
open air chow	1942	Breddon Drome Camp	38th BG	40
mess kit laundry	1942	Breddon	38th BG	40
horses in field	1942	Townsville	38th BG	42
convoy, Brisbane to Darwin	1942	Brisbane to Darwin	38th BG	43
Milk Bar	1942	Townsville, Australia	38th BG	44
Funeral	1942	Townsville, Australia	38th BG	45
Group Camp	1942	Australia	38th BG	45
Charcoal powered car	1942	Australia	38th BG	46
Street scene	1942	McKay	38th BG	47
Old R. R. engine	1942	McKay	38th BG	48
Officers' Club	1942	McKay	38th BG	48
Race track	1942	McKay	38th BG	49
Street w/ bikes	1942	McKay	38th BG	50
American Red Cross	1942	McKay	38th BG	51
rugged rock outcroping	1942	????	38th BG	51
Light plane over city	1942	McKay (???)	38th BG	52
Joe E Brown visit to New Guinea	1942	New Guinea	38th BG	56
Joe E Brown on stage	1942	New Guinea	38th BG	57
Joe E Brown on stage	1942	New Guinea	38th BG	58
Joe E Brown (close up)	1942	New Guinea	38th BG	59
Joe E Brown leads men in "God Bless America"	1942	New Guinea	38th BG	60
"Shanty O'Neill" receives Air Medal	1942	New Guinea	38th BG	61
Card Game on transport		PAC	38th BG	62
Deck of transport		PAC	38th BG	63
Native work crew		PAC	38th BG	64
Shoreline house on stilts		Port Moresby, New Guinea	38th BG	65
Christmas morning service	Dec. 25, 1942	New Guinea	38th BG	66
Priest at Christmas Mass	Dec. 25, 1942	New Guinea	38th BG	67
Hymns - Christmas morning	Dec. 25, 1942	New Guinea	38th BG	68
Group around piano	December 1943 ??	New Guinea	38th BG	69
Port Moresby, New Guinea	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	70
Skip bomb	June 13, 1943	PAC	38th BG	71
Survivors of 11 months escape	1942	New Guinea	22nd BG	72
First good meal in 11 months	1942	New Guinea	22nd BG	72
	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	73
natives, bare breasted, bushy heads, grass skirts, elevated stilt houses	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	74
natives, men and women	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	75
native females of various ages	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	76
natives and native environment	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	77
male warriors and laborers,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	78
line up of local (native) soldiers	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	79
unloading area in port construction,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	79
aerial photos of rubber plantation	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	80
men building a revetment	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	81
housing in New Guinea	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	82
Truck in banana grove	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	83
housing on land and on coastal area,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	84
native and native environment	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	85
native if full dress dancer regalia	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	86
Native father and son	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	87
river scene, nude men in water	1943	possibly 7 Mile Strip	38th BG	88
"The job of keeping clean in New Guinea,"	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	89
grader working to level an airfield strip	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	90
two-mast sail boat	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	91
villages on shore and on water	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	92
native men and women	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	94
much scarred native male	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	95
head hunter carrying head	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	96
two native warriors in regalia	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	97
small village on river	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	98
properly dressed New guinea soldier	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	99
Cargo canoe approaching a village,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	100
canoe alongside Liberty ship	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	101
"Troops Club" in New Guinea	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	102
"Papua Hotel," New Guinea,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	103
villages on shore	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	104
Flooded river crossing	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	105
Christmas Packages	January 1943	New Guinea	38th BG	106
Improvised bathtub	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	107
Map mosaic.	1943ß	New Guinea	38th BG	108
Photo Detachment	January 1943	New Guinea	38th BG	109
Insignia painted on truck,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	110
Photo Lab	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	111
"Smiles" Hoffmaster,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	112
washing clothes,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	113
native decorated by Aussie General Morris	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	114
Lt. Col. O'Neill bids farewell to first home bound men	June 15, 1943	New Guinea	38th BG	115
loading supplies in weapons carrier	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	116
group of officers at bar in club	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	118
officers chatting in bar area	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	119
man and three ladies at table	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	120
men drinking at bar,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	121
lady seated, man talking to her	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	122
Gen. Ramey, Lt. Col. O'Neill, Lt. Col. Dutton,	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	123
exhausted photographer	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	124
Rorona Falls, New Guinea.	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	125
Rorona Falls, New Guinea.	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	126
village in the mountains, New Guinea.	1943	New Guinea	38th BG	128
B-26 Marauder that was a part of the 19th Sq. “Silver Fleet”	circa1943	Charters Towers	22nd BG	130
B-26 Marauder, serial 01436,	circa1943	Charters Towers	22nd BG	130
B-26 Marauder that Ralph Michaelis flew in the Pac., 27 missions shown.	circa1943	Charters Towers	22nd BG	130
B-26 Marauder, 01436.	circa1943	Charters Towers	22nd BG	131
Marauder, side serial 01436.	circa1943	Charters Towers	22nd BG	131
B-26 Marauder 01436 "Calamity Charlie." showing insignia and bomb symbols --	circa1943	Charters Towers	22nd BG	132
"Buzz job, 30 Mile,"	circa1943	New Guinea		133
B-25, "Ole Cappy." equipment, cots and more.	circa1943	Charters Towers		134
B-26 Marauder "Strike"	circa1943	Charters Towers	22nd BG	134
B-24, "Puc Nose,"	circa1943	Charters Towers		138
P-40 "Texas Longhorn,"	circa1943	Charters Towers		148
B-25 “diving through ack-ack fire”	circa1943	New Guinea		152
Gasmata Airdrome,	October 24, 1942	Gasmata		152
Jap Zero on ground	circa1943	Buna		153
Jap pillbox and gun position	circa1943	Buna		153
knocked out U.S. tank	circa1943	Buna		153
Buna Mission battlefield	circa1943	Buna		155
Sanananda Point battlefield	circa1943	Sanananda Point		155
pillboxes, Buna	circa1943	Buna		155
remains of Japanese Zero	circa1943	Buna		157
Japanese flag	circa1943	Buna		158
Jeep on C-47	circa1943	Buna		159
body of last fatality being carried out on litter	circa1943	Buna		160
loading Japanese planes on barge	circa1943	Buna		161
natives carrying wounded from Sanananda Point	circa1943	Buna		162
bamboo bed sleeping quarters	circa1943	Buna		162
loading wounded on C-47	circa1943	Buna		163
captured Japanese flag	circa1943	Buna		163
Japanese prisoners	circa1943	Buna		163
Japanese ack ack and pill box at Buna	circa1943	Buna		163
bomb drops on Japanese shipping	August 1943	New Guinea		164
aerial view of Lae Airdrome	Dec. 31, 1943	New Guinea		165
Japanese bombs exploding in port	circa1943	New Guinea		165
antiaircraft gun emplacement	circa1943	New Guinea		166
native huts at Hanisch Harbor	circa1943	New Guinea		167