U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group on Morotai Island, Indonesia during World War II. A sign on a tree outside an S-1 building reads '8th Fighter Group Headquarters'. Tall palm trees in the background. The headquarters set in a grove of palm tress across the water. A jeep plows through mud. Tents in the camp area. A man walks across a road. An enlisted man tacks bulletins on a board. Clothes on a string. A medical tent. A man enters the tent. A sign on the tent reads 'Medic'.
U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group on Morotai Island, Indonesia during World War II. An enlisted man clicks a photograph of four enlisted men at a camp area. A road in the camp area and a trailer stationary on the road. An ocean in the background. A grove of palm trees across the camp area. Tents in between the palm trees. Officers come out and walk on a rocky path.
Activities of U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group on Morotai Island in Indonesia during World War II. A truck loaded with enlisted men (EM) moves in a camp area. Clothes on a string. A building. Men pack camp chairs in crates. A lineman climbs up a palm tree to remove communication lines. Another lineman removes insulators. An EM unscrews water pipes. The EM picks up a section of a pipe and walks out. A man removes a loudspeaker from a palm tree. An electrician removes a loudspeaker from a tree and gives it a man on the ground. A man on a tree remove wires. An EM takes apart a small table with a hatchet. A man puts articles in a file cabinet drawer.
Activities of U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group on Morotai Island in Indonesia during World War II. Men pull a portable generator from a tent. A wrecker truck backs up towards the generator. The men unwind a hoist chain. EMs (Enlisted Men) attach the chain to the generator. The EMs load the generator from a hoist to a truck backed up to the wrecker truck. The men push the generator trolley on a muddy road. A man paints a shipping code number on a crate.
Activities of U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group at Squadron Area on Morotai Island, Indonesia during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force aircraft in flight. Soldiers load packed boxes on a truck in the Squadron Area. The soldiers burn trash. They take off the roof of a mess hall. Bundles of tents being loaded on a truck. Trucks pulls out. Insignia of the United States. The soldiers stand in a group. A soldier with a bird on his head. Tents in the background. A pile of packed equipment kept in the Squadron Area. Men work on details of packing.
Activities of U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group on Morotai Island in Indonesia during World War II. A cargo ship at a dock. The ship is loaded. Soldiers load a truck on the dock. The soldiers seated on the dock watch as a truck is lowered. The soldiers put equipment on a net. The net full of equipment being hoisted up and into a hold. A grab line picks up barrels and lowers them into the hold.