Larry L is wondering if anyone can name the guys who served with his grandfather, on Tinian, photographed with the B 29s Slave Girl, Lady ion Waiting, and Go Sal, and were in the Tinian Hunt Club together Sam Weintraub

 

Charles Nicolosi (From Brooklyn http://cityrecord.engineering.nyu.edu/data/1941/1941-02-13.pdf) is in the above, 2nd from left, and below, 3rd from the left

The job of the Tinian Hunt Club was to find and remove Japanese soldiers hiding throughout the islands in the countless limestone caves; they wouldn’t surrender for cultural reasons and also because their high command told them the GI’s would eat their children.

 Many GI’s and Japanese soldiers died in these efforts. Sam Weintraub came up with an alternative (described in his daily war diary), using psychological warfare, by using captured Japanese collaborators to talk the Japanese soldiers out of the caves by promising them good treatment and food and bribing them with cigarettes and chocolate bars. 

In this way, he and his squad, who became known as the “Tinian Hunt Club,” safely brought out around 500 Japanese soldiers, without further loss of the lives of GI’s

William Jackson Smith standing in front of tent, Nicolosi on the right

If you can help out Larry, the comment and photo thread is at https://business.facebook.com/latest/inbox/all?asset_id=1111861348900582&mailbox_id=&selected_item_id=100041789900888 

By the way, you can read online scans of the Daily Iowan, like the one I'm looking at from June 26, 1945, if you'd like to, with no subscription nonsense. Even has the comic strips 

This newpaper clipping talks about a guy named Toughy, who worked with Maj Sam Weintraub, whose obit mentions him on page 7 of the 

 https://grandvalleylakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Grand-Valley-Lakes-Newsletter-June-2020.pdf

http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1945/di1945-06-26.pdf  so that's quite the connection between sources that collaborate the Tinian Hunt Club