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Caption for a wire service photograph of Colonel Harry Lay and Brigadier-General Dion Williams in San Diego, 1928

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Title: Caption for a wire service photograph of Colonel Harry Lay and Brigadier-General Dion Williams in San Diego, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: October 31, 1928
1928-10-31
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The caption lists the date as Nov 2, 1927, however newspaper accounts report the Henderson arriving in San Diego on Oct. 31.
This caption refers to image ark no. 21198/zz002cpxz4
Text from negative sleeve: United States Navy, Ships, Henderson
Text from image: Watch Your Credit. "P & A Photos" LA 15529 (Los Angeles Bureau) Home from China. Seven hundred marines arrives at San Diego recently on the transport Henderson, after having served from one to two years in China. These are the first American troops to return from the Far East. Photo shows (left to right) Col. Harry Lay, Commanding the Marines, and Brig-Gen Dion Williams, commander of the San Diego Marine Base who welcomed Col. Lay home. (LA FM 14) 11/2/28
Type: image
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4197i
ark:/21198/zz002cpz3p
Language: English
Subject: Government vessels--American
Williams, Dion, 1869-
Henderson (Transport)
Lay, Harry Randolph, 1878-1932
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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