WWII Photos:
Amos A. Owen
Amos Owen was working as an electrician in his hometown of Conesville, Iowa when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Three months later, the 32-year-old Owen was training as a hospital corpsman, Over the next three years, Owen served with CUB-12 in San Bruno, California, and overseas with the V Amphibious Corps. Casualties from Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima were all under his care.
“Doc” Owen joined First Battalion, 24th Marines in the closing days of the war at Camp Maui, and received his honorable discharge in December of 1945.
All photos courtesy Bill Powers.
- Served With: Medical Section
- Collection Timeline: 1944 – 1945
- Locations: Saipan, Camp Maui
"First hospital, Saipan." This captured building was part of the VAC hospital complex on Saipan.
A field hospital – "Easy" Medical Company, VAC – probably on Saipan.
Ruins of the sugar mill in Charan Kanoa, Saipan.
Examining a piece of shrapnel from a 16-inch battleship shell. Floyd Warren, Ladislaw "Ladd" Vacek, and "Smith." Probably Saipan, 1944-1945.
Pharmacist's Mates Jim Wood and Floyd Warren experiment with the local transportation on Saipan.
PhM1c Owen, likely taken in 1945. The ID tag was found along with the photographs.
Owen and Floyd Warren. The tents in the background resemble those at Camp Maui; this photo may have been taken near the end of the war.