Scrimmage for War Pictures
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Chapter 14
Willamette University 1991 |
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Willamette University 1941 Bearcat football team 50th Reunion photograph, taken at Punahou School, 7 December 1991. Standing: Left to Right, George Constable, Earl Hampton, Student at Bunal, Marshall Barbour, Irv Miller, Ken Jacobson, Marvin Goodman, Jim Fitzgerald, Bill Kelly, Bob Bennett, and Andy Rodgers. Kneeling: Wally Olson, Chuck Furno, Glenn Nordquist, and Gene Stewart. KJC |
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1997 Hall of Fame program cover. MOHLAWU |
Chapter 15
Coach Roy Servais 'Spec' Keene, Head Football Coach, 1941 Willamette Bearcats, from the team photograph. MOHLAWU |
Oregon Agricultural College men bound for World War I; Roy Keene sitting on porch railing, 2nd from left; Douglas McKay, 2nd from right. Photograph taken in 1917. OSULSCA |
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Roy S. 'Spec' Keene, Senior, Oregon Agricultural College, 1921. OSULSCA Source: Oregon Agricultural College 1921 Beaver, page 61: Oregon State University Library Special Collections and Archives. OSULSCA |
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Lieutenant Commander Roy S. Keene, USNR, |
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Roy Keene, standing, left, on arriving in Honolulu for the |
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Athletic Director 'Spec' Keene tosses a football on the sideline as the Oregon State Beavers conduct a practice for the 1957 Rose Bowl. OSULSCA |
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Roy S. 'Spec' Keene, |
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Photograph of Cadet Douglas McKay taken at |
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Doug and Mabel in 1917. OSULSCA |
First Lieutenant Douglas McKay, a World War I photograph taken in 1918, before the 91st 'Wild West Division' sailed for England, en route to France. OSULSCA |
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General Pershing visiting Major General Johnston at the 91st Division Headquarters, 25 September 1918, the day before the Allies' launched the Muese-Argonne offensive. USA 91st Division History, World War I, Chapter II, The Muese-Argonne Offensive. US Army Signal Corps photograph. USASC |
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McKay's keepsake World War I Battle Map. OSULSCA |
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An elderly French couple, M. and Mme. Baloux of Brieulles-sur-Bar, France, under German occupation for four years, greeting soldiers of the 308th and 166th Infantries upon their arrival during the American advance. USASC, courtesy of the American Battle Monuments Commission. |
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Division soldiers assemble at the Town Hall (Hotel de Ville), |
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Captain Douglas McKay |
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Captain Douglas McKay at his desk, |
Chapter 16
Tillman Theodore Ogdahl in the Willamette University 1941 Football Team Photograph. MOHLWU |
Marshall Hall Barbour in the Willamette University 1941 Football Team Photograph. MOHLAWU |
Ted Ogdahl, team captain-elect for the 1942 Season, |
Okinawa Map #1, depicting progress of the Okinawa campaign with datelines. The 6th Marine Division came ashore at the point of the arrowhead to the left (north) of Hagushi, and drove northeast up the island to its northernmost point, before turning back southwest to later participate in the fierce battles to breach the Shuri Line. USMC |
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Armored Amphibious Tractors of a Marine Battalion |
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Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., Commander of the 6th Marine Division, shown studying a map during the battle for Okinawa, April 1945. USMC |
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Marines of the 6th Division move through and over 'CEMETERY RIDGE' on Okinawa. They are shown pinned down by enemy sniper fire. USMC |
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6th Marine Division Marines move 'INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH,' on Okinawa. The Marine in front of the rifleman is carrying a flame-thrower. USMC |
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Marine 105mm Howitzer firing in the |
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Lieutenant Colonel William Kuratich, Operations Officer of a Marine Air Support Control Unit, briefs pilots for a five-hundred pound bomb attack against Japanese positions on southern Okinawa. The planes used were Grumman Avenger TBMs. USMC |
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Ted Ogdahl, Grant High School |
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Ted Ogdahl being carried off the field by his undefeated |
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Eagle Pass Army Airfield, with North American AT-6C |
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Lt. Marshall Barbour with two of his |
321st Bombardment Group (M) aircraft returning from a mission, flying Past Mt. Vesuvius, Italy. USAAF |
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Mt. Vesuvius eruption, March 1944. Camera pointed generally northeast, with Naples and Naples Bay in the foreground, ten miles from the crater. USAAF |
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Damaged B-25, caused by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Crew member cleaning the ashes and cinders off the wing of a North American B-25 of the 340th Bomb Group. This was caused by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on 23 March 1944. USAAF |
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New B-25Js at Solenzara Airfield, Corsica. USAAF |
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448th Squadron Officers Club, |
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321st Bombardment Group flies formation for the Commanding |
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Map, Operation Dragoon. USMA |
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Vichy French battleship Strasbourg after bombing |
Chapter 17
USS Kenmore (AP-62), |
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USS General John Pope, circa 1944. NHHC |
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Iwo Jima Map 2 depicts campaign progress with datelines. Lt. Reynolds' 2nd Battalion of the 25th Marines was in reserve and began coming ashore on Blue 2 at 1233 hours, 19 February 1945. |
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4th Marine Division Amphibious tractors, jammed with Fourth Division Marines, churn toward Iwo Jima at H-hour. 19 February 1945. These troops were the initial assault force. USMC |
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A wave of charging 4th Division Marines begin an attack from the beach at Iwo Jima, on D-Day as another boatload of battle-tested veterans is disgorged on the beach by an invasion craft. USMC |
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4th Marine Division 3d and 4th waves moving |
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A 5th Division Marine looks to the south, up toward Mt. Suribachi on 20 February 1945. Units of the 4th and 5th Divisions had seized part of Motoyama airstrip #1, the southernmost airstrip on Iwo Jima, on the 19th. The 5th Division was to the left of the 4th Division and the two had to remain linked up, with the 4th Division's right flank anchored to the beach as they began wheeling to the right to drive north up the island. (See Map 2) USMC |
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FIREWORKS ON HELL'S HALF ACRE - In an example of the fierce fighting on Iwo Jima, the first rounds take flight as Marine rocketeers launch pyramids of projectiles toward Japanese emplacements in support of a Leatherneck advance on Iwo. The rocket units, being mobile, resorted to hit and run tactics to escape enemy counter-fire. Photograph taken on 28 February 1945. USMC |
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4th Marine Division Cemetery |
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1st Lieutenant 'Buddy' Reynolds boarded the troop transport USS Lander (APA-178), from Iwo Jima, with other units from the 4th Marine Division on 20 March 1945, and sailed for the island of Maui, The Territory of Hawaii on 21 March. USN |
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IWO FROM THE AIR - On this island of Iwo Jima, in the Volcano group, once a Japanese base, American planes, supplies, and men are crowded. They are a part of the force in the Pacific, bringing the war to the Jap mainland. This dot on the map was won by Marines in an assault surpassing Tarawa in ferocity and casualties. March 1945. USMC |
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Map depicting locations of Tutuila in the Samoa Islands |
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Funafuti Airfield, Ellice Islands, |
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Funafuti Airfield, Ellice Islands, |
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Map, Battle of Tarawa Atoll, |
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Map of MAG 31 Operations in 1944, with Cecil Conner based on |
Chapter 18
Clarence Walden on the 1941 Willamette University football team. MOHLAWU |
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Naval Aviation Cadet Clarence Walden, 1942. CWC |
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Map 1. The x's and names in red mark the location of Japanese ships sunk during Operation Hailstone, the 16-17 February 1944 Pacific Fleet's Task Force 58 attack on Truk Atoll. WOL |
Chapter 19
Andrew 'Andy' Rogers, No. 34 in the center of the back row on the 1941 Willamette team. MOHLAWU |
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Irving E. Miller's Willamette University graduation photograph, from the 1947 Wallulah. MOHLAWU |