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

The collection is open to research.

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.