Alfred K. Schroeder Honolulu VJ-Day Parade photographs

Collection — Box: HWRD-related small collections box, Folder: M00067: 1 of 1

Identifier: MANUSCRIPT-M00067

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of eight photographs of the VJ-Day parade in Honolulu, Territory of Hawai'i. The images depict men and women in uniform--including sailors, WACS, and WAVES--as well as floats and airplanes flying in formation. (Based on notes on the backs of the prints, the photographs were probably taken from a viewing location in or near Pearl Harbor; additionally they probably depict the organized parade of September 3rd 1945, not the spontaneous one of August 14th, 1945.)

Dates

Creation: 1945
Creation: 1945-09-03

Creator

Schroeder, Alfred K., 1924-2001 (Collector, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection may be accessed in the John Troup Moir Jr. and Gertrude M.F. Moir Archives Reading Room on the fifth floor of the Hamilton Library addition. Reading room hours and policies can be found on the archives website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/library/research/collections/archives/visiting-us/. If you have questions, please contact the archives by email: archives@hawaii.edu or phone: (808) 956-6047.

Biography

Alfred K. Schroeder (1924-2001) was a "professional photographer who had a life-long personal passion for New England coastal defense military history."

"Mr. Schroder, from Boston, served active duty in World War 2 from May 18, 1943 to February 27, 1946. He was a radarman, 2nd class on the destroyer escort USS Neuendorf (DE-200), in the Pacific and Atlantic. He took part in the battles of the North Solomons, Truk, Palau, East and West New Guinea, the Admiralties, the Philippines and the South China Sea; and in Bermuda and the Caribbean."

Schroeder was employed by the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission--now the Department of Conservation and Recreation [DCR]--as a staff photographer from 1986 until the time of his passing in 2001.

All quotes from:

Fisher, Sean. 2017/10/26. Letter to Leilani Dawson donating the photographs to the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library.