Silas William Thompson photograph collection relating to Peleliu during World War II
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 98-32
name: label: Creator
content: Thompson, Silas William (collector and probable photographer)
label: Names
content: United States. Navy
place: label: Place
content: Angaur Island (Palau)
label: Place
content: Peleliu Island (Palau)
topic: label: Topic
content: World War, 1939-1945
creator: label: Creator
content: Thompson, Silas William (collector and probable photographer)
culture: label: Culture
content: Palauans
label: Culture
content: Yapese (Micronesian people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Silas William Thompson was a US Navy medic during the invasions of Angaur and Peleliu during World War II.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Prints (halftone)
label: Extent
content: 86 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1944-1945
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Silas W. Thompson, 1987.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.98-32
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Unbound pages from an album documenting Silas William Thompson's participation in the United States Navy during World War II, with particular focus on the Battles of Peleliu and Angaur and his time at Base 20 Hospital.  The collection includes a group portrait of Company B-8 of the Naval Hospital Corps School, views of Base 20, the invasion of Peleliu and its aftermath, prisoners of war, Palauans on Peleliu and Angaur, and one image of Yap men dancing.  Two issues of the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper declaring the Allies' victories in Europe and the Pacific, Navy certificates from the training station and hospital school, and letters from Naval administrators, are also available with the collection.