[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0737]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The vanguard of Oklahoma's Thunderbird 45th division boards a transport in New Orleans Wednesday which will take them to Japan. Here, troops are being checked aboard by officers. The Thunderbird news, official newspaper of the few English language papers published in Japan. The job may be tough but the newspaper's staff is determined to see it through. Ther's the task of finding a printing plant complete with equipment to set type in the English langauge. And the challenge of digging up newsprint in a newsprint-scarce orient. But the all-soldier staff figures its job is nothing to that faced back in World War II by Don Robinson, former Oklahoma City newspaperman. Robinson, now a Washington newsman, kept the division newspaper rolling off the presses week after week throught the gruelling combat of Sicily, Anzio, France and Germany. Glimmering with talent of Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer proze winning cartoonist, Robinson's paper was lauded alike by field generals and newsmen such as the late Ernie Pyle.......One member of the Thunderbird staff will be aboard each ship to serve as editor of that ship's edition of the division news.