This 35mm negative captures an unguarded moment of a young American soldier resting in a tropical bivouac area, likely on Luzon in the Philippines during the 1944-1945 campaign to liberate the islands from Japanese occupation. Stripped down to an undershirt against the tropical heat, he squats beside felled coconut logs in a scene far removed from combat, a reminder that the Pacific war was made up as much of long stretches of waiting and camp life as it was of battle. Project: 218441