USS Helena PG-9
Loose Pictures
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Numbered pictures have captions on the backs. Few are dated.
All pictures are believed to have been taken between 1927 and 1928 with only one dated 1930. (Ed.)

#1. June 1930. Halonge
#4. French Indo Chinese
#5. On the return journey. The fellow with me is a sailor. We met him at a river scrubbing clothes.
My Buddies and I done the same and the sailor made the rest of the journey back with us.
#6. Poppies first then Opium. Chungking.
#7. Fred McBride gun striker U.S.M.C. 3" Gun
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#2. Seaman.
#3. Quarter Deck. U.S.S. Helena.
#4. Taken on the forecastle of the U.S.S. Helena at Hong Kong China. February 1927.
#5. Water Buffalo. China. Used in the rice patties.
#6. Hitting the rapids, Yangtze River.
#7. (H. K. & Harbor) Birds-eye view of Hong Kong and harbor.
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#1.Tower of wishing well.
#2. Speed boat of USS Guam.
#3. Ichang Pagoda. Characteristic of these pagodas is that they never erected them with an even number of floors, always odd. Count them.
#4. June 1930. Halonge
#5. (Colwell)
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