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| Wrecked DH-4 at Port-au-Prince Airfield
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| Palace Guard of the Gendarmarie
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| U.S. Marine Tent Camp
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| Bandit with Machete
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| Roll Call of Marines in the Field
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Aerial View of Palace, Marine Barracks & Champ de Mars in Port-au-Prince
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U.S. MARINES IN HAITI, 6 PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS.
A portfolio of six glossy
5x7 prints taken in Haiti by a Marine, ME Hilty, shortly after WWI. Mac Elmer Hilty was a Marine flier with
the U.S. Navy through most of 1918. He trained at the Marine flying field
in Miami, Florida and later flew on bombing missions with the British in
the Ypres-Lys Sector from September through November 1918. Among his
effects was a stack of photographs from Haiti, none of which was dated.
A number of them were of DH-4s at the Marine flying field in
Port-au-Prince. It is from selections of these Haiti photos that the
prints shown here were made.
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