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Larry Zimnisky Below are photos and captions sent in by Larry Zimnisky. At the end of the page are some photos of people we need help identifying. Please send that information to the Web host: LeeMiller@ethi-usmappingmission.com.
Please help identify the people in the following photographs. The pictures at the Tripoli cafe show Rommie Mays in the black shirt and Larry Zimnisky in the plaid shirt. The two in 572nd jackets are unidentified. Please contact LeeMiller@ethi-usmappingmission.com with the names.
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Larry Zimnisky on Roman ruin.
U-1's on original WAB flight line.
Volleyball game at the Wheelus compound.
Volleyball game at the Wheelus compound.
The Beer Garden opens after the game.
Rommie Mays at the old fort in Tripoli.
The port in Tripoli.
Road crew on the coastal highway. Main east-west route. East of Tripoli.
Coastal highway near Marble Arch. Rommie Mays breaking out lunch (c-rations) 
Local farmer.
Driving through Derna.
Libyan water well.
Coast highway climbing up from the Mediterranean to the Cyrinican plateau. 
Highway South of Bengazi.
Camp Climax, 1962.
Camp Climax was on an abandoned airstrip from W.W. II 
another view
Aircraft fuel truck at Climax.
Hubble with H-23.
Pal doing guard duty, greeting a "stranger" near the camp.
Mail call at camp Climax.
SP/5 Justice, the cook at camp Climax, discusses an old Roman tomb with some local residents. Hundreds of these dotted the countryside. All pillaged hundreds of years ago.
Pal, Hubble and unidentified member of the Climax crew.
Larry Zimnisky and "Pal"
One of the problems confronted by those in the field was the safe yet accessible storage of personal items such as shaving gear, cameras and such. A popular solution to this was commandeering an empty wooden fusee box. Built to government standards these boxes could withstand the beating of being transported around by both plane and truck. As well as easily carried around by the rope handles. When I left Libya I took my fusee box and just placed it and it's contents into a trunk and had it shipped home with everything else. At home my father commandeered it and used it to hold tools in the trunk of his car for over ten years. Since then that box has been used to hold various things, usually sitting nondescript on our deck or patio. A little dirty here and there and a little rust on it's hinges but I have it to this day, a little reminder of a youthful adventure. After 45 years it is still in pretty good shape.
U-8 Maintenance
Larry Zimninsky in plaid shirt with two (unknown) from the 572nd. 
Rommie Mays in black shirt, plus the two unknowns
