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[Nurses and Wounded Soldiers Trim a Christmas Tree]

Description: Photograph of wounded soldiers and Red Cross nurses decorate and trim a small Christmas tree at Fleet Hospital in New Caledonia. Two soldiers sit on each bed with the small Christmas Tree propped up between them with a nurse on either side.
Date: December 23, 1944
Creator: United States. Navy
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Red Cross Staff Sit in Front of Fleet Hospital]

Description: Photograph of women on the Red Cross Staff in front of the Fleet Hospital 107 in Noumea, New Caledonia. Seated on the wooden steps from left to right: Jane Mayhew, Secretary; Carolyn Perabe, Recreation; Carol Weaverling, AFD; Rebecca Van Meter, Recreation. A sign with the symbol and words "American Red Cross" is in front a building behind them.
Date: October 4, 1944
Creator: United States. Navy
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Wounded Soldiers at Purple Heart Presentation]

Description: Photograph of wounded servicemen at a presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia in August of 1944 in the middle of a large dirt area. On the right stands two rows of injured servicemen at attention, and on the right more servicemen standing at attention with a row sitting in the center on folding chairs due to leg injuries. The dirt area has been carved out of rolling hills that appear in the background of the photo. A portion of the camp can also be seen in the background.
Date: August 1944
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Servicemen and Nurses Standing on Steps]

Description: Photograph of two unidentified servicemen standing on a short set of wooden steps with two nurses. They are looking at the camera. The office on the left is wearing a uniform that includes a hat. The woman next to him is wearing pants and a button-up shirt. The man on her left is wearing a similar outfit and is wearing glasses. The nurse on the right of the photo is wearing a knee-length skirt and short-sleeved shirt and safari-style hat. The steps lead to a deck in front of a building. A coat … more
Date: 1945~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Purple Heart Presentation at New Caledonia]

Description: Photograph of a field where a presentation of Purple Hearts is taking place in Noumea, New Caledonia on August 1944. On the left stand a 2 groups of service members standing at attention, in the center stands another group at attention with one member standing with the American flag and a group of women are lined up facing them. On the right side of the photograph stands service members amongst some folding chairs, and a service band.
Date: August 1944
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[New Caledonia Dance]

Description: Photograph of G.I.s dancing with nurses and Red Cross staff at a dance in New Caledonia. In the front of the people dancing are two tables covered in cups and tins, two women sit at the second table and a service member is leaning down to the woman on the left facing the camera.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[New Caledonia Dance, #2]

Description: Photograph of G.I.s dancing with nurses and Red Cross staff at dance in New Caledonia. A couple stands in the center of the photograph with the man's back turned to the camera, and there are two couples shown behind them and one just out of frame on the left.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Carol Weaverling in Uniform at Purple Heart Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of Carol Weaverling in uniform at a Purple Heart presentations ceremony outside the Fleet Hospital, Noumea, New Caledonia. Three men in uniform's stand behind Carol, and a woman in a white, Red Cross Nurse uniform stands on the left taking to another serviceman.
Date: 1944~
Creator: United States. Navy
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Eleanor Roosevelt Chows with Marines]

Description: Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt having "chow" at seated luncheon with enlisted Marines at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Airforce base. At the end of the table stands a Marine and six people sit on either side of the table. On the left sit six Marines, and on the other bench sits four Marines, Eleanor Roosevelt and her secretary Malvina Thompson.
Date: April 3, 1944
Creator: United States. Marine Corps
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Marines at Red Cross Tent]

Description: Photograph of Marines on Bougainville gathering around the Red Cross center there to read the latest news. The Red Cross center is a tent pitched with wooden stakes with Marines lined up underneath it and it's surrounded by trees. There is also a small wooden sign with "Red Cross" written across it to mark the tent.
Date: April 4, 1944
Creator: Batts, J. J.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Purple Heart Recipients]

Description: Photograph of a group of Purple Heart recipients taken at a Purple Heart ceremony in Noumea, New Caledonia. The recipients are in two lines, the back line all standing, and the front seated.
Date: August 1944
Creator: Wilcox, E. E.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Ungroomed Marines Being Addressed by Officer]

Description: Photograph of a presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia, in August of 1944. Four Marines are lined up and standing at attention for an officer standing in front of them, while women service members hold papers off to the left alongside another officer.
Date: August 1944
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[ADG Band Performing at G.I. Dance]

Description: Photograph of an Airport Depot Group band playing at G.I. Dance in La Tontouta, New Caledonia. The band is arranged in two lines behind a small white picket fence - one row is sitting and playing the sax while the rest of the horns stand behind them alongside a drummer. On the right side sits a man playing the piano with a man standing behind him playing the bass.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[New Caledonia Dance, #4]

Description: Photograph of three G.I.s dancing with nurses and Red Cross staff at dance in New Caledonia, in front of the band sitting behind a white picket fence.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Depot Group, 13th
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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