This scrapbook page from the Pat McAleer World War II photo collection captures scenes from a Marine Corps aviation unit's Pacific deployment. The top photograph shows aircrew preparing an F4U Corsair fighter for a mission, its distinctive gull-wing silhouette clearly visible on the airstrip behind them — the annotator notes the men's sunburn-preventive nose cream, a small but telling detail of tropical service. Below, a sandbag-fortified observation tower overlooks a Pacific shoreline, and a thatched island dwelling completes the page, together sketching the everyday landscape of a forward Pacific airbase during the war, circa 1943-1945. Project: 218301