World War II Camp Croft Photographs by Joseph Pizzimenti

These pictures of Camp Croft were taken by Joseph Peter Pizzimenti who was from Detroit, Michigan. He was a musician in the jazz and marching bands at Camp Croft from 1941 until early 1945. He had permission to carry a camera on base and used the darkroom on base to do his work. Mr. Pizzimenti went on to Okinawa by the summer of 1945, and spent the last six months of his service in the South Pacific. He died in 1996. According to his son, who has provided electronic images of these pictures, Mr. Pizzimenti always spoke fondly of his Army days in South Carolina.

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