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Article: Darkroom Soldier: Photographs and Letters from the South Pacific Theater World War II.(Book review)
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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DARKROOM SOLDIER: PHOTOGRAPHS AND LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC THEATER WORLD WAR II
by Frederick H. Hill, with George Venn
Photosmith Books, La Grande, Oregon, 2007.
Photographs, maps, bibliography. 300 pages.
$49.95 paper.
Readers interested in World War II history can select from a deluge of books on the subject, mostly harrowing tales of tank battles, extermination camps, seaborne invasions, aerial bombings, and other phases of the conflict relating to the front lines. The rear echelon generally has been ignored, although the work of the many men and women who manned those jobs was vital. Also, many authors of war books ...