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- Collection:
- Mighty Eighth Air Force Collection
- Title:
- Fairview Park, Tent City Number 2 at Savannah Army Air Base [Hunter Field], Georgia
- Creator:
- Gehoski, Peter J.
- Date of Original:
- 1942-03-06
- Subject:
- Camp sites, facilities, etc.
Military camps
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th--History
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th--History--Pictorial works
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Air Force--History
United States. Air Force--History--World War, 1939-1945 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- photographs
black-and-white photographs - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- A photograph of a tent city established in Fairview Park, part of the army air base at Hunter Field in Savannah, Georgia. Several tents are raised between a cluster of pine trees. Two servicemen tend to fires in metal garbage cans placed on top of cinder blocks. A third soldier stands in front of a tent. The back of the photo reads: "Taken on March 6, 1942 at Fairview Park, Tent City No. 2, Savannah Army Air Base, Georgia."
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_2010-0066-0121
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_2010-0066-0121#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_2010-0066-0121/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 x 3 in. ; 2 pages
- Holding Institution:
- National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- Rights: