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For a propaganda pic the US Navy Waves aim their S&W revolvers, 1942.
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Chow time for US engineers working on a beachhead, Sicily 1943.
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Civilians during an army display open to the public in San Antonio, Texas, April 1942.
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When Army recruits took aptitude tests in a movie theater, Miami, 1942.
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Meanwhile, in Groton, Connecticut, the news is constantly updated (1943).
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WAVEs training at Smith College field in Northampton, Massachusetts June 22, 1943.
I call it "wobbly knees."
Hands up!
Hands up!
Speaking of Groton Connecticut.
The Electric Boat company is still there.
We take the ferry from Long Island to New London CT and going up the Thames river you go past Electric Boat.
Sometimes they have a sub they are working out front.
The Navy Base at Groton has an excellent submarine museum too.
The Electric Boat company is still there.
We take the ferry from Long Island to New London CT and going up the Thames river you go past Electric Boat.
Sometimes they have a sub they are working out front.
The Navy Base at Groton has an excellent submarine museum too.
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Before the cell phone existed: People reading newspapers with headlines about the D-Day Pershing Square Park, L.A, June 6, 1944.
Must be before the Dodgers moved to L.A.
Not a baseball cap among them.
Not a baseball cap among them.
The Dodgers moved to L.A. before the start of the '58 season.
The Giants moved to S.F. at the same time.
The Giants moved to S.F. at the same time.
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James Maitland Stewart, aka Jimmy Stewart, the renowned Hollywood actor who became an air force officer with the 2nd Bombardment Wing, participates in a post-mission briefing on July 23, 1944.
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Lee Marvin, Joe Louis and Greg “Pappy” Boyington are interred within 20 feet of each
other at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Know this famous actor?
"Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the U.S. entered World War II, he enlisted
as a private in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942, at Los Angeles. He attended the Officers' Candidate
School at Miami Beach, Fla., and graduated as a second lieutenant on Oct. 28, 1942. He then
attended aerial gunnery school, and in February 1943, on personal orders from Gen. Hap Arnold,
he went to England to make a motion picture of aerial gunners in action.
He was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook and although neither ordered nor expected
to do so, flew operational missions over Europe in B-17s to obtain the combat film footage he believed
was required for producing the movie, titled "Combat America."
He returned to the U.S. in October 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on June 12, 1944,
at his own request, since he was over-age for combat. Because his motion picture production schedule
made it impossible for him to fulfill his AAF Reserve officer duties, he resigned his commission on Sept. 26, 1947.
He passed away on Nov. 16, 1960." - National Museum of the U.S.A.F.
other at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Know this famous actor?
"Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the U.S. entered World War II, he enlisted
as a private in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942, at Los Angeles. He attended the Officers' Candidate
School at Miami Beach, Fla., and graduated as a second lieutenant on Oct. 28, 1942. He then
attended aerial gunnery school, and in February 1943, on personal orders from Gen. Hap Arnold,
he went to England to make a motion picture of aerial gunners in action.
He was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook and although neither ordered nor expected
to do so, flew operational missions over Europe in B-17s to obtain the combat film footage he believed
was required for producing the movie, titled "Combat America."
He returned to the U.S. in October 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on June 12, 1944,
at his own request, since he was over-age for combat. Because his motion picture production schedule
made it impossible for him to fulfill his AAF Reserve officer duties, he resigned his commission on Sept. 26, 1947.
He passed away on Nov. 16, 1960." - National Museum of the U.S.A.F.
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