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