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The boys are still puffing cigarettes in the New Guinea. Even the Natives enjoy an American fag now and then
The shindig was staged in honor of Coast Guardsmen, Army and Navy men, and Australians, who had a hand in freeing the island from the Japs. Coast Guardsmen Sterling, serving on a Coast Guard-manned transport, lives at 1810 34th Street NW, Miami, Fla. U.S. Coast Guard Public Relations Photo. Photographer not given. 026-g-066-018-001
- Date
- 1944
- Photographer / author
- Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
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- photograph
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- 4,762 × 5,621 pixels
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