the U.S. Navy in WWII and Tiki culture - General Tiki

C creativenative Tiki Socialite Drifting on my outrigger canoe Joined: Feb 17, 2012 Posts: 352	C creativenative Posted posted on Thu, Jun 20, 2013 3:36 AM I like how people are posting personal photos of WWII so here are mine. My mom passed recently and I was fortunately able to scan some of her photos for a slide presentation. I knew she had some cool WWII stuff so I made sure I scanned them. First a little background; my mom was 17 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She, like a lot of young civilians skipped her senior year to help in the war efforts. She and her sisters were beautiful hapa haoles (half breeds-Dorothy Lamour like) or lighter brown skinned natives with some Caucasian features. The island girl that most GI’s imagined but was actually not that common though out the Pacific. One Aunty Leialoha, the taller one in some of these photos, did marry a Naval man, uncle Bob an officer and a marine engineer. He was one of those guys sun bathing on a deck while the A bomb went off nearby at Bikini. He luckily survived without any after effects. My mom’s the dark Italian looking one. Note they were good girls visiting the Chaplain's office Next stop Bablu's : WWII - the New Guinea Campaign and images from the island http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=35520&forum=1&start=30

I like how people are posting personal photos of WWII so here are mine. My mom passed recently and I was fortunately able to scan some of her photos for a slide presentation. I knew she had some cool WWII stuff so I made sure I scanned them. First a little background; my mom was 17 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She, like a lot of young civilians skipped her senior year to help in the war efforts. She and her sisters were beautiful hapa haoles (half breeds-Dorothy Lamour like) or lighter brown skinned natives with some Caucasian features. The island girl that most GI’s imagined but was actually not that common though out the Pacific. One Aunty Leialoha, the taller one in some of these photos, did marry a Naval man, uncle Bob an officer and a marine engineer. He was one of those guys sun bathing on a deck while the A bomb went off nearby at Bikini. He luckily survived without any after effects. My mom’s the dark Italian looking one.

Note they were good girls visiting the Chaplain's office

Next stop Bablu's : WWII - the New Guinea Campaign and images from the island
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=35520&forum=1&start=30

Post #682907 by creativenative on Thu, Jun 20, 2013 3:36 AM