The Snapshots in Time Collection
Local Woman and Child Among Coconut Palms, Pacific Island Village — USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) Collection, WWII
A local woman carries a child through a coconut palm grove near a traditional thatched dwelling, photographed by a crew member of USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) during a Pacific port call or campaign stop in World War II. Snapshots like this preserved brief encounters between American sailors and the civilian communities of the wartime Pacific. Project: 218452