The Snapshots in Time Collection
Verso of AP Wirephoto Press Print: Gun Crew Drill Aboard Troop Transport Bound for Australia, 1942
This is the reverse side of a 1942 Associated Press Wirephoto, stamped by the Oakland Tribune and dated May 2, 1942. The original caption describes a gun crew drilling aboard a U.S. troop transport as the ship carried reinforcements across the Pacific to Australia, part of the urgent buildup of Allied forces in the months following Pearl Harbor and the fall of the Philippines. Project: 218598