persian gulf command (23 Ergebnisse)

Clean, firm hinges, sharp corners, clean boards. DJ has touch of wear to top front corner o/w in NF+ condition. BP/WWII.

Zustand: good. 19 cm, 140, illus., some discoloration to endpapers, corners bumped. Preface by James Thurber.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Sg - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - A new history of the long-overlooked WWII theater in Iran and Iraq, its unrecognized significance, and its impact on local society and politicsThis dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these two countries were more important to the Allied forces' war operations than has ever been acknowledged, historian Ashley Jackson investigates the grand strategy of the Allies and their operations in the region and the continuing legacy of Western intervention in the Middle East.Iran and Iraq served as the first WWII theater in which the U.S., the U.K., and the U.S.S.R. fought alongside each other. Jackson charts the intense Allied military activity in Iran and Iraq and reveals how deeply the war impacted common people's lives. He also provides revelations about the true nature of Anglo-American relations in the region, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the continuing corrosive legacy of Western influence in these lands.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. pp. 192.

Zustand: New. During Desert Shield, the Air Force built a complicated architecture to control the air sorties. Yet, when the activities of its participants are pieced together, it seems that neither the planners nor the Joint Force Air Component Commander knew the details of what was happening in the campaign. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JWG; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408. . 1996. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 192 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated staple-bound wraps 22 x 30cm. 36pp incl wraps with full-page map of motor transport and rail routes, and many photos, some full-page. Wraps very good with light rubbing and scuffing. Pages mostly very good with minor loss to a couple of edges. Souvenir album containing b/w photos of Persian landscapes, people, bazaars, mosques, ancient and traditional buildings and townscapes. The photographers named as Blohm, Covello, Miller, Arkus, Marthey, Peters, Kohl, Campbell and Mitchell. Extremely rare (OCLC 15271264 is described as having 32pp with similar dimensions, for which 2 locations given - none on Copac).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. VHS video cassette in case with removable b/w illustrated title insert 12x21x3cm. The case and insert are fine. The cassette appears superficially fine, but is in NTSC format compatible with US players, so could not be checked on a UK PAL player. "The Great Power Politics of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill played out in the daily lives of the men and women of the Persian Gulf Command, In the years following WW II they called themselves the 'Forgotten Bastards of Iran'. The story of the efforts to get lend-lease supplies from Persian Gulf ports, North to Russia went untold as wartime allies became cold-war adversaries!" (cover blurb). Robert Burgener (1945-2022) was a Psychology Professor specialising in cross-cultural communication. He served in the US Army in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Operation Allied Force, and Iraq, and made films drawing on personal narratives (ref. Library of Congress, Robert Drexel Burgener Collection; "Bridge to Victory", The Iranian, 3 Nov 1997).

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. Original staple-bound printed wraps 18x25cm. (39)pp illustrated with woodcut illustrations throughout. Covers fair, foxed with old tape repairs to spine. Interiors generally good with chips to a couple of leaves not affecting text. This reprints an article Sayre wrote for The New Yorker (1945), and additionally includes an extract from an article by Gault MacGowan for the New York Sun, a presentation and analysis of statistics, List of Units in the Command since April 1944, and sheet music with lyrics for the song "Men of the Persian Gulf Command". Very rare, with Worldcat recording 4 institutions only (OCLC 15729259: Library of Congress, Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center, Southern Methodist University, UC Davis). Worldcat also records a related publication reprinting a different set of articles from the New Yorker, crediting Sayre. Not recorded on Library Hub.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Original printed staple-bound wraps 15x22cm. (2), 32pp including full-page map of "The Royal City of the Safavid Kings". Good, foxed, with hard vertical crease to the middle, and a slightly musty scent. Very rare with 3 locations on Worldcat (OCLC 34936030: Harvard, NYPL, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library). A later edition seen names Brigadier General Donald Booth rather than Connolly to the front, and adds b/w photos absent here. This was prepared by Second Lieutenant, AUS (Army of the United States), John C. Greene, Director of Tours at Isfahan Tent Camp, with input from Donald Wilber, Assistant Director of the Iranian Institute of New York, whose "cooperation and thorough knowledge of Isfahan" made this possible (opening page). The principal author was the science historian John Colton Greene (1917-2008), who had been drafted and trained as an officer in 1942, sent to Iran during the Tehran Conference, then appointed Connolly's ADC. He wrote this and a companion volume "A Sketch of Iranian History" (undated but c1943) to promote understanding of the Islamic world among GIs, and he also attempted to form discussion groups around the subject. His suspicions that his co-author was working for the Office of Strategic Services would prove correct. Donald Newton Wilber (1907-1997) was one of the two architects of the joint Anglo-US "Operation Boot" / "Operation Ajax", which overthrew Iran's democratically elected PM Mossadegh, and installed Shah Reza Pahlavi in 1953 in response to nationalisation of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company. Isfahan was one of many posts along the Persian Corridor, created by Britain and the US to supply the USSR in WW2. This opens with a history, followed by descriptions incorporating early travel accounts. Locations covered include the Allah Verdi Khan Bridge and Chadar Bagh; the Meidan-i-Shah; Masjid-i-Shah and Masjid Sheikh Lutfullah; Ali Kapn and Chehel Sotun; Khaju Bridge and Madrasseh-i-Mader-i-Shah; New Julfa; Masjid-i-Juma; and the Zoroastrian Ateshgah. (Reference: Greene's obituary in Isis, Vol. 103, No. 1, March 2012: 144-148).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A rare handbook with unique Persian Gulf Command Military Railway Service provenance. Second Edition as stated to the Farsi title, undated c1943-45. Original brown cloth gilt-titled with the Iranian emblem 15x21cm. Printed in 3000 copies by Taban Printing Company. (1), 72pp English; (1), 75pp Farsi texts including b/w drawings and chits stating "The Rules contained in this book will take effect on and from a date to be advised". Covers good with several marks to one of the boards. Interiors near fine with the front endpapers filled with 15 names and addresses several stating their affiliations. This covers general rules, signals, block working, station working and shunting, duties of engine crews and guards, additional rules for working trains, and accidents. The ms entries are by US railroaders serving in the Military Railway Service (MRS) under the Persian Gulf Command. To name some: Leon Richter, St Cloud Mn identifies himself in English and Farsi as an engineer in the 711th Railway Operating Battalion ("Co.C - 711 Eng RR Op Bn" with Co.C possibly Company C. After WW2 he joined the Great Northern RR); James McClaskey of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Transportation Division ("P.R.R. P.T. Div"); Henry Hale of Crawfordville Ga, Georgia Railroad ("GaRR"); John Sacca of Palmyra NJ, the Pennsylvania and possibly New York Dock RRs ("P.R.R. N.Y.D."); James Taylor of Brownsville Maine, Canadian Pacific RR; and J.D. Stirke(?) of Chicago, Chicago and North Western Railroad ("C-N-W. R.R."). Others with no stated affiliation came from Texas, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Indiana. Experienced railroaders had been proving their worth in wartime since the First Battle of Bull Run. During WW1 the Corps of Engineers operated the MRS, led by Army Colonels and railroaders commissioned as Lieutenant Colonels. Between WW1 and WW2 it was reorganised along civilian lines into Railway Operating Battalions each with 3 or 4 Companies charged with managing and maintaining 90-150 miles of track, and if necessary destroying them. The Army recruited civilians through its Affiliation Plan under which US commercial railroads sponsored specific MRS units. The 711th was formed at Fort Belvoir Virginia in June 1941 without civilian company sponsorship (the first of its kind). Its personnel were drawn from 10 different US railroads, and the Engineer School Detachment and Engineer Replacement Training Center at Fort Belvoir. It moved to Camp Claiborne Louisiana for training, part of which involved a role in laying the C&P Railroad. When the US entered WW2 the Transportation Corps took command of the MRS with many new Battalions formed under the Affiliation Plan. The MRS served in every theatre that involved the Army. The 711th arrived at the river port of Khorramshahr north of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's refinery at Abadan in January 1943, where it made up trains and moved them out before taking over an especially long 388 mile section of track (later reduced to 258 miles). It was joined by the 730th (Pennsylvania Railroad), 754th (Southern Pacific Company), and 762d (American Locomotive Company, Baldwin Locomotive Company, Electro-Motive Corporation). Coordinated by the 702d Railway Grand Division (Union Pacific Railroad), these 4 Battalions operated the Iranian State Railway transferring significant Lend-Lease to the USSR. In total the MRS handled over 4M tons of freight, and transported 16,000 Iranian military, 14,000 Polish refugees, 40,000 British troops, 15,000 Russian ex-POWs, and 21,000 pilgrims during 1944's Nowruz festival. The railroaders left Iran by July 1945. Worldcat locates 2 copies at LoC and Stanford. (Ref: Army Historical Foundation, "Railroaders in Olive Drab: The Military Railway Service in WWII").

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Single sheet printed both sides in blue, black and red 51x35cm, folding down to 9x18cm with illustrated title panel and text panel by Yank Staff Correspondent Sergeant Burtt Evans. Printed by Army Exchange Service and distributed by I&E Branch, OTI, Persian Gulf Command. Good or better with closed tears and tanning to outer panels. Undated but c1944-45 based on Evans' reference to the Battle of Anzio. Apparently prepared by "Yank - The Army Weekly", this was given to GIs joining "the most elaborate and worthwhile recreational project of the Persian Gulf Command". Subsidised by the US Army, this involved transporting thousands of soldiers from Khorramshahr to Basra by truck, on to Baghdad by Iraq State Railways, and finally by truck through the Syrian Desert to the Tel Litwinsky Leave Center in Tel Aviv. The 3,000 mile round trip took up to 6 days each way, with a few days to visit sites across the Holy Land. This was mainly for enlisted personnel with most officers travelling by air. Evans advises that "There's no question about it - it's a gruelling truck trip both ways for PGC GIs, but the week in Palestine is worth it. The Red Cross caters to every soldier's whim; and the Army does something better: it leaves you alone". He invites them to check in at the Leave Center from where "smartly planned, economical tours to Bethlehem, Jerusalem and places of Biblical interest in Palestine are conducted by the Red Cross". They may also want to enjoy Tel Aviv "the nearest thing to the States", modern with unlimited food and liquor, bathing beaches and bathing beauties etc. One side of the sheet presents a pictorial route map bounded by Tehran to the head of the Persian Gulf and "Neutral Territory" in the east, and the Palestine and Lebanon coasts in the west. Features include settlements, road and rail links, boundaries, and water features. The route is marked with flags for Tehran, Khorramshahr, Basra, Baghdad, Mafrak, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, with a train and truck convoy shown pictorially. This is bordered by several drawings including 5 ms-style daily diary entries. These give impressions of the journey and its stopping points including the British camp at Rutbah and its facilities, the availability of Tom Collins in Baghdad etc. The other side contains two detailed plans of Jerusalem and Jaffa-Tel Aviv. Labels cover cultural, recreational, religious, military, administrative, diplomatic and other locations. Both include "out of bounds" advice in red for the Old City, and a swathe of Tel Aviv coast. A table of distances from Tel Aviv suggests the tours available. There is also a b/w photo of Jerusalem seen from the Mount of Olives, and an advert for "Yank". A rare survivor. (Ref: Lt-Col Danny M. Johnson, "The Persian Gulf Command and the Lend-Lease Mission to the Soviet Union during World War II", Army Historical Foundation).

No Binding. Zustand: Near Fine. Three colour (black, red and brown) printed paper map 46x66cm. Near fine, neatly folded. Geographical Section General Staff (GSGS) No. 3919 (Middle East) surveyed by the 2nd Indian Field Survey Company Dec 1942, compiled and reproduced by the 4th Indian Field Survey Company May 1943, printed for the US Army by the Persian Gulf Command's 83rd Replacement Group (83 Rep. Group) September 1943 and published by the US Army Map Service (AMS) 1943, later reprinted 3-56. This British Army map was repurposed by the US Army, apparently to assist the Persian Gulf Command in operating the Persian Corridor with the British Paiforce to channel lend lease supplies to the USSR. Coverage is bounded by Saveh (SSW) and Karaj (NE). Karaj was one of the main cities along the Persian Corridor, shown on the Iranian State Railways Northern Branch as a stop between Tehran and Kazvin (off-sheet) with a metalled road running parallel. Another major section of the Railway (indicated as connecting Tehran to Qum) is also shown. Details include administrative boundaries, various grades of road; railways; caravanserais; water wells; pasture; availability and quality of water, springs, mosques, forts, watch towers, deserted villages, police posts, telephone lines and offices, tombs, wadis etc, with descriptive notes about terrain in the image.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Three colour (black, red and brown) printed paper map 46x66cm. Good, neatly folded, lightly tanned, with some wear. Geographical Section General Staff (GSGS) No. 3919 prepared by the Survey of India, Edition November 1942, reproduced by the 4th Indian Field Survey Company in January 1943, then by the US Army Map Service (AMS) 5-43. This British Indian Army map was repurposed by the US Army, presumably to assist the Persian Gulf Command in operating the Persian Corridor with the British Paiforce to channel lend lease supplies to the USSR. Kashan, on the Central Iranian Plateau in the northern part of Isfahan Province, was one of the main cities on this route. This sheet is bounded by Kashan (N), Natanz (E), Morcha Khurt (S), and Meimeh (W) on a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles. Details include administrative boundaries, several classes of road (distinguishing metalled and unmetalled, cart tracks, all weather roads, dry weather roads etc including disused; railways; landing grounds; caravanserais; water wells and availability and quality of water, springs, mosques, forts, watch towers, deserted villages, police posts, telephone lines and offices, a tea shop, tombs, wadis etc, with descriptive notes about terrain in the image. A stretch of incomplete railway is shown running between Kashan and Khalidabad.

Photo album. (16), (11 blank) ff. With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Ca. 32.5 × 26 cm. Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board. Unusual military photo album with 150 photographs of the activities of the Persian Gulf Command (PGC) at the base in Andimeshk, Iran. The PGC was a branch of the United States Army established to facilitate the supply of material from the U.S. Lend-Lease programme through the Persian Corridor. This material was sent to the Soviet Union to strengthen it, so it could help defeat Nazi Germany. - The photographs in this album, which cannot be found anywhere else, offer a visual documentation of this time. However, they show the simple soldiers; the men tasked with driving trucks, maintaining oil supply lines, or working alongside Iranians at the two factories producing trucks for the war effort. The work therefore offers a fascinating insight into daily life of PCG members in Persia in the Second World War. - This album was compiled by John Stefano (dates unknown), a technician fourth grade in the PGC. It includes photographs of the Tehran conference in 1943, the first World War II conference between the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom, where it was decided to open a second front against Germany. Other than this, there are photographs of the barracks the men lived in, the military vehicles they used, the marches and excercises they partook in, but also the surrounding landscape and the local people. - Inserted in the album is a booklet with images and information about Persia, with a letter by PCG commander Donald Prentice Booth (1902-93), which was sent to PCG members after the war to congratulate them on a job well done. He hoped the booklet would serve as a memento. Together with the album, it continues to do so until this day. - With the shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf command mounted on the inside of the front board, some of the photographs are captioned on the back. The eyelets for the string on the front board have come loose. The corners of the leaves are slightly creased. Overall in very good condition.

Photo album. (23), (4 blank) ff. With 76 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Ca. 32.5 × 26 cm. Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, the name of the owner painted in silver, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board. Remarkable military photo album with 76 photographs of the activities of the Persian Gulf Command (PGC) at various locations in Iran. The PGC was a branch of the United States Army established in 1941 to assure the supply of U.S. Lend-Lease war material to the Soviet Union through the Persian Corridor. After the war, members of the PCG received an empty album to fill with personal memories of their time in Iran. These albums are now relatively rare. The present one was compiled by Colonel S. Morgan Thomas (dates unknown), a PGC member who carried out inspections of the railroads. It includes various photographs of him at work. - This album also contains photographs of PCG commander Donald Prentice Booth (1902-93), a visit by Soviet soldiers and a young child, military activity in Teheran, locals, and soldiers sending telegrams. Loosely inserted in the album are maps of Iran, the lands surrounding Hamadan, and the Trans Iranian Railroad, which would have been important to carry for someone who inspected the railroads. The work offers a rare insight into life of a PGC member stationed in Iran. - The corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed. One of the inserted maps is somewhat foxed and another has a tear that has been repaired with tape in the lower margin, not affecting the image, some leaves are missing one of the corner mounts the photographs are mounted on, possibly missing a photograph on the verso of leaf [4]. Otherwise in very good condition.

First edition, first printing, of this narrative of American efforts to transport supplies across Iran during the Second World War. The Persian Gulf Command was charged with routing lend-lease material to the Soviet Union via the "Persian corridor". Joel Sayre (1900-1979) achieved fame as the chief screenwriter for Gunga Din (1939). The foreword is written by the American humourist James Thurber (1894-1961), Sayre's childhood friend. Octavo. With half-tone coloured insignia frontispiece and 4 half-tone photographic double-sided plates, title page lettered in red and black. Original green cloth, spine lettered in white and red, front cover lettered in red and with insignia blocked in white and red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Minimal bumping and rubbing; minor rubbing and creasing to unclipped jacket, very faint toning to spine: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

[Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945]. Folio photograph album (320 x 255 mm), original brown textured cloth over boards with embossed silver lettering 'Persian Gulf Command / Iran' and embossed insignia of the Persian Gulf Command to upper board, original silk ties; [19] leaves with 268 corner-mounted gelatin silver photographs, most 70 x 90 mm (some slightly larger) -a unique selection of photos taken from commercial snapshot folders/packets acquired by the album's owner whilst on active duty with Persian Gulf Command, with the accompanying mounted printed caption sheets from those folders/packets mounted alongside the photos; followed by [26] blank leaves; two photos apparently lost from recto of the first leaf, otherwise contents complete and in superb condition. [TOGETHER WITH]Persian Gulf Command.[Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945], 295 x 220 mm, staple-bound pictorial wrappers, pp. [34], photographically illustrated throughout; with loosely enclosed typed cover letter from Brigadier General Donald P. Booth (Persian Gulf Command), addressed to the unidentified recipient of the souvenir photo album and booklet, thanking them for their wartime contribution as a member of the Persian Gulf Command: '. your hardships and sacrifices of the past two years have helped immeasurably to win the war, and save the lives of fellow Americans'; the booklet and document are in very good condition. The United States Army established its Persian Gulf Command in 1941. Its principal aim was to protect the supply of Allied militarymateriel to the Soviet Union which was sent overland through Persia. All members of the PCG received a specially bound photograph album, in which they could mount their own photos to remind them of their wartime service in the Middle East, along with the Persian Gulf Command booklet. The photos in the unique album offered here do not depict Persia but comprise almost exclusively scenes in Palestine, including Jerusalem; Galilee; Bethlehem; Nazareth; Tel Aviv; Mount Carmel, Haifa and Acre; Jaffa, Ramleh and Lydia; and Jericho.

260 silver gelatin photographs (various sizes: 40 x 51 mm - 166 x 244 mm), some captioned in English on the reverse; a diary (132 ms. pp. next to several blank pp.), a letter, several Christmas cards, and a few ephemera. The personal archive of Private Robert C. Nead (b. 1918) from Kansas City, Missouri, who served on the Persian Gulf Command during World War II. The mission of the Command was to assure the supply of U.S. lend-lease war material to the Soviet Union through the Persian Corridor, a mission involving drivers like Nead who hauled war supplies across the treacherous Iranian desert and the snowy mountain passes of the Caucasus. - The present collection consists of 260 black-and-white photographs, including a few small picture postcards, illustrating the work of the Persian Gulf Command. Among the most striking images appear countless piles of boxed war supplies, construction material and tyres, heavily loaded trucks, American and Russian camps, army barracks and tents, Nead posing in front of his truck or with his army buddies, views of the desert and the Caucasus, as well as shots of the native population and children in particular. - In his diary, which is also present here, Nead describes how convoys kept moving day and night, hauling weapons, ammunition and other material as fast as possible in time for the Red Army, facing all kinds of obstacles driving across hot deserts or through blinding winter blizzards that swept the mountain passes, pushing their semi-tractor trailers, six by fours, and 10-ton Mack diesels from Khorramshahr to Andimeshk - 155 miles of winding road over difficult terrain. They were frequently ambushed by local tribes looking for firearms: "The native tribes are causing quite a bit of trouble now (Arabs and other tribes). They attack convoys and take supplies. They seem to want guns and amunition mostly." In addition, there were plenty of physical, mental, medical, and environmental hardships for personnel assigned to the PGC, which also becomes clear from Nead's diary. Soldiers frequently came down with heat exhaustion and dehydration as well as malaria and sand fly fever. The rainy season was followed by temperatures that rose as high as 170 degrees Fahrenheit (77 Centigrade) in the desert sun, accompanied by sand storms that persisted for as long as a week. - During its entire period of operation, the PGC delivered over 2.5 million tonnes of material to the Soviet Union. In all, the Persian Corridor was the route for 4,159,117 tonnes of cargo delivered to the Soviet Union during World War II. - Many photographs removed from an album, a few still with their photo corners. Some images slightly faded, worn around the margins, or warped. A rare survival shedding light on a nearly forgotten aspect of the war.

Remarkable military photo album with 76 photographs of the activities of the Persian Gulf Command (PGC) at various locations in Iran. The PGC was a branch of the United States Army established in 1941 to assure the supply of U.S. Lend-Lease war material to the Soviet Union through the Persian Corridor. After the war, members of the PCG received an empty album to fill with personal memories of their time in Iran. These albums are now relatively rare. The present one was compiled by Colonel S. Morgan Thomas (dates unknown), a PGC member who carried out inspections of the railroads. It includes various photographs of him at work.This album also contains photographs of PCG commander Donald Prentice Booth (1902-1993), a visit by Soviet soldiers and a young child, military activity in Teheran, locals, and soldiers sending telegrams. Loosely inserted in the album are maps of Iran, the lands surrounding Hamadan, and the Trans Iranian Railroad, which would have been important to carry for someone who inspected the railroads. The work offers a rare insight into life of a PGC member stationed in Iran.The corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed. One of the inserted maps is somewhat foxed and another has a tear that has been repaired with tape in the lower margin, not affecting the image, some leaves are missing one of the corner mounts the photographs are mounted on, possibly missing a photograph on the verso of leaf [4]. Otherwise in very good condition. Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, the name of the owner painted in silver, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board. With 76 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Pages: [23], [4 blank] ll.

Unusual military photo album with 150 photographs of the activities of the Persian Gulf Command (PGC) at the base in Andimeshk, Iran. The PGC was a branch of the United States Army established to facilitate the supply of material from the U.S. Lend-Lease programme through the Persian Corridor. This material was sent to the Soviet Union to strengthen it, so it could help defeat Nazi Germany. The photographs in this album, which cannot be found anywhere else, offer a visual documentation of this time. However, they show the simple soldiers; the men tasked with driving trucks, maintaining oil supply lines, or working alongside Iranians at the two factories producing trucks for the war effort. The work therefore offers a fascinating insight into daily life of PCG members in Persia in the Second World War.This album was compiled by John Stefano (dates unknown), a technician fourth grade in the PGC. It includes photographs of the Tehran conference in 1943, the first World War II conference between the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom, where it was decided to open a second front against Germany. Other than this, there are photographs of the barracks the men lived in, the military vehicles they used, the marches and excercises they partook in, but also the surrounding landscape and the local people.Inserted in the album is a booklet with images and information about Persia, with a letter by PCG commander Donald Prentice Booth (1902-1993), which was sent to PCG members after the war to congratulate them on a job well done. He hoped the booklet would serve as a memento. Together with the album, it continues to do so until this day.With the shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf command mounted on the inside of the frfont board, some of the photographs are captioned on the back. The eyelets for the string on the front board have come loose. The corners of the leaves are slightly creased. Overall in very good condition. Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Pages: [16], [11 blank] ll.

30 silver gelatin photographs, ranging from 125 x 113 mm to 38 x 38 mm. 19 in photo corners in the first 3 leaves of a photo album, 11 laid loosely in the same. Contemporary official album, emblazoned with "Persian Gulf Command Iran" and the insignia of the company. Views of the U.S. Army base at Andimeshk, Iran, during the vital deployment of the Persian Gulf Command, the service command established in WWII to facilitate the supply of U.S. lend-lease war material to the Soviet Union through what was called the Persian Corridor, for the benefit of Soviet allies. - The first troops arrived in Iran in December of 1942, but the base moved from Ahwaz to Andimeshk in November 1943, and it is the Andimeshk base which appears in these photos. Troops were tasked with moving supplies from port cities on the Gulf through the mountains to Iran's border with the Soviet Union, until the end of the war in Europe. - Photographs show a few of the all-important transport trucks, likely the Studebaker US6es appreciated by the Soviets for their versatility and as a base for Katyusha rocket launchers, one packed with posing men, and several in the scrapyard. Most photographs show the entertainment made available to U.S. troops, or that which the men found for themselves: an official American-style carnival complete with a peep show booth, men washing their clothes in a soldier's helmet, posing outside the barracks with table tennis paddles, a tame cheetah, or simply with their friends in the Command. - Some portraits of soldiers posing together list their names: Pete Errico, Webb, Poyda, Draskovich, Raphel, Bruscato, Zbel, Venturoni, and Giordano. Likely simple soldiers rather than officers, these would be the men tasked with driving trucks, maintaining oil supply lines, or working alongside Iranians at the two factories producing trucks for the war effort. - Only minor or marginal wear to photographs; quite well preserved.