These photos were taken on
"So Solly Day", U. S. Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, VA in Fall
of 1949 or Spring of 1950
Trainees head
inland.
"Hit the deck!" Trainees
cover up as harassers prepare to throw TNT blocks. The
harasser in the left foreground was GM1 H. L. Piotrowski.
The photographer and other harassers are
unidentified.
Trainees hit the beach at
the beginning of "So Solly" Day. A "harasser", wearing a
white helmet, stands at the far left with his supply of 1/2
pound TNT blocks.
Trainees head into one of
many tidal mud flats along their route.
