Peter Fiori’s Photos

Peter (Pete) Fiori is an American whose father, Lieutenant Peter Fiori, served in Nanumea during the Second World War. Lt. Fiori died in an airplane crash in Nanumea in November, 1943. Pete has shared these photos taken by his father in Nanumea in about 1943. Thank you to Pete.

Probably Peter Fiori by his tent, Nanumea, 1943

American Soldiers — living accommodations, Nanumea, 1943

Nanumea’s church after a Japanese bomb blast - 1943

Newspaper notice of the death of Lieutenant Peter Fiori on Nanumea 22 November, 1943

Vakamutu (LST-203) stuck on Nanumea’s reef with its doors open - 1943