This collection primarily consists of photographs (with a few newspaper clippings and miscellaneous documents) of the Lopez and Mirabal families, collected and marked by Frank Lopez.
Tampa native Mike DiBona served in the 10th Army in the Pacific Theater during WWII. At war's end, he was stationed at the small isle of Iejima (previously known as Ie Shima) in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. While there, he turned his mess tent into a new "Columbia Restaurant." Using ingredients sent to him from Tampa, DiBona tried to replicate the food he ate back home. A typhoon wiped out the tent, which was soon replaced with a pre-fabricated mess hall. He returned to Tampa where he lived out the remainder of his years.
Collection includes Forty six photos, annotated in detail and in English, portraying the liberation of and medical care at Amphing, Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Lambach, Landsberg, Ludwigslust, Penig, Wuppertal, Ebensee, Mauthausen. Also included are five press photos of the end of World War II annotated and stamped "Army Pictorial Service".
This collection consists of 174 photographs which were taken towards the end of World War II in France and Germany. All of the photos were retrieved by American solders from a house in France.
