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Preliminary Guide to the World War II - Philippines, New Guinea, Okinawa Photograph Collection
Bernath Mss 38
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Title: World War II - Philippines, New Guinea, Okinawa Photograph Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1940s
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 38
Extent:
.6 linear feet
(2 oversize boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur Oversize
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
World War II - Philippines, New Guinea, Okinawa Photograph Collection. Bernath Mss 38. Department of Special Collections,
Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
More than 1,000 mostly World War II b/w photos, loose and in three photograph albums, many lacking identification. Includes
scenes in Manila, Lingayen, Laoag, and other Philippine towns, many showing destruction of the war; railroad yards at Tarlac,
Luzon; local population, villages and scenes in Philippines and Biak Island, New Guinea; scenes in Okinawa, including surrender
of Japanese forces there. Also, U.S. and Japanese military aircraft (intact and destroyed); naval landing-craft during U.S.
landing at Lingayen in Jan. 1945; U.S. military camps and personnel.; numerous scenes in the U.S.(Ohio, Florida, California),
many with soldiers and sailors with family and friends; 1947 Cleveland air-show; and other post-war travel photos.