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John Highfill

from SDASM Archives

• Greg Bishop said:

  1932 - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park - Halema'uma'u crater - Kilauea volcano - Big Island of Hawai'i RE:(John Lee Highfill) JL Highfill's WWII assignments: "... In October 1942, Chief Photographer John L. Highfill, USN, with some twenty Naval photographers from the Naval Patrol Wing One was sent from the Hawaiian Islands to the South Pacific where they reported to CDR. Quackenbush. This group of Naval photographers under Chief Highfill increased the original Quackenbush's Gypsies from one officer and 14 enlisted photographers to four officers and 83 enlisted photographers, one civilian Fairchild Camera Corp. representative and four officers who became known as the Pioneer Band. During the 18 month that Quackenbush's Gypsies were engaged in photo reconnaissance operations in the South Pacific area, .... excerpted from "MCARA * War Stories > Quackenbush's Gypsies" www.mcara.us/quackenbushs_gypsies.php