The Snapshots in Time Collection
Personnel Quarters ('Hooch') with Hand-Painted Pin-Up Art, 345th Bomb Group Encampment, Ie Shima, 1945
A GI's tent quarters on Ie Shima, decorated with a hand-painted pin-up figure mounted above the entrance — a common form of morale-boosting folk art found throughout Pacific theater airbases in 1945. Built from salvaged lumber and canvas, such improvised 'hooches' housed the men of the 345th Bomb Group during operations against Japan in the final months of World War II. Project: 218228