Grass Skirts All The Rage

I guess military service in the South Pacific during World War II was not always grease and guns.

Here's my father in local haberdashery fashion as well as haute coutre during what he called R & R, Rest and Recreation, or at least that's what he claimed:

he's the second from right above and below, also second from right:


What can a say?

Real men!

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Info I managed to receive from historical sites of associations:

The 100th Bomb Squadron was part of the 42nd Bomb Group of the 13th Air Force. The 69th and 70th Squadrons of the 42nd were originally part of the 38th, but after reaching Australia were detached from the 38th and sent to the Fiji Islands and placed under control of the navy until the 42nd which had been in Alaska was sent to the South Pacific as part of the 13th Air Force. They flew B-25s and later the 13th and 5th Air Force was under the command of (FEAF) Far Eastern Air Force. The 42nd was known as the Crusaders.