Bird hunting trip in Syria (the hunting party at a lake at 5000 feet near Mount Hermon, Syria) | Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs
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Title:
Bird hunting trip in Syria (the hunting party at a lake at 5000 feet near Mount Hermon, Syria)
Date:
April 1942
Description:
Left to right: Sergeant Major Jack Hill-Skinner (from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force), Reg Ryan, and Mike (guide). In April 1942, Arthur Howe, Jr. and others rescued a local child who was injured by a military vehicle and took her to a Syrian doctor. The child's parents, as a sign of gratitude, invited Arthur Howe, Jr., the Syrian doctor, and Skinner to go on a bird hunting trip on the mountains above Zahleh. The day after the bird hunting trip, Arthur Howe, Jr. went to Palestine.
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Also available as high-resolution TIFF and JPEG files. Original: Two 2 1/2"x3 1/2" Photographs
ID:
2_006_1B_69
Repository:
Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs
Found in:
Arthur Howe, Jr. Collection, 1914-2014 Series 1: World War II, 1940-2009 (bulk 1940-1945) Subseries 1B: Photographs, 1941-1943 Box 4-5 Group 3: Middle East and North Africa
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Scanned by staff at the Center for Jewish History in New York, NY in 2017.
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