CPL Joseph A. “Champ” Champagne Jr. – Hanauma Bay, Oahu
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CPL Joseph A. “Champ” Champagne Jr., shirtless in swim trunks, descends a wooden-railed trail toward Hanauma Bay’s reef flat, with cactus growing beside the path and the bay’s calm water beyond. 1940.
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This photograph is from the personal collection of photographs taken by CPL William Stinson Brown while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before the infamous attack of 7 December 1941. CPL Brown was there during the attack. These unique photographs were donated to the COGG Honor Archive for public use of students, writers and researchers of history. The generous donation was from CPL William S Brown’s, son, William Stinson “Bill” Brown Jr. and his loving granddaughter Caitlin Brown Clancy. Champagne appears to have been a fellow serviceman photographed alongside CPL Brown during this same Hanauma Bay outing; no further service or biographical details about him are documented elsewhere in this collection.