A page from a Marine Corps aviator's personal photo album documents the island-hopping campaign across the Central Pacific: a squadron intelligence officer on a steel-matted runway, an alert (ready) tent at Kwajalein in 1944, and a captured Japanese gun emplacement photographed at Tarawa "not long after" the ferocious November 1943 battle there. Such personal snapshots offer an intimate ground-level counterpoint to official combat photography of the Pacific War. Project: 218143