American Miscellaneous

[Bootie]

The first contingent of U.S. Army nurses to be sent to an Allied advanced base in New Guinea carry their equipment as they march single file to their quarter on November 12, 1942. The first four in line from right are: Edith Whittaker, Pawtucket, Rhode Island,; Ruth Baucher, Wooster, O.; Helen Lawson, Athens, Tennessee,; and Juanita Hamilton, of Hendersonville, North Carolina

 

[Bootie]

U.S. nurses walk along a beach in Normandy, France on July 4, 1944, after they had waded through the surf from their landing craft. They are on their way to field hospitals to care for the wounded allied soldiers.

 

[Fredrocker]

Brig. Gen. Benjamin Davis, Sr., the first African American general.

 

[Facman]

Going through some of my Mom's old pics and found this one. Street scene from New York City during WW2.

 

[Louis]

Thread with cleanup of broken images. -

 

[Louis]

USS Oklahoma righted to about 30 degrees, on march 1943, while she was under salvage at Pearl Harbor. She had capsized and sunk after receiving massive torpedo damage during the 7 Dec 1941.-

 

[Louis]

A Philadelphia worker gauges a ship propeller on a lathe at Baldwin Locomotive Works, which also produced tanks and locomotives for the war effort -1942.-

 

[Louis]

Chaplain John Craven is shown baptizing soldiers on Iwo Jima in 1945.-
Nicknamed “John the Baptist” by fellow Marines in the field, he was a Captain in the Navy’s Chaplain Corps and served with the U.S. Marine Corps units in high-casualty combat operations during both the WW2 and the Korean war.

 

[Louis]

Cleaning of broken images

 

[Louis]

The price of a US marine's clothing and gear during the WWII.

 

[Louis]

A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshippers to 'Come in and pray for Allied victory' in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day.

 

[Fredrocker]

Dick Winters and Easy Company (Band of Brothers) are pictured at Hitler’s residence, the Eagle’s Nest...

 

[Fredrocker]

Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII

 

[Louis]

Los Angeles, aug 1942: Traffic is stopped for an inspection of dimmed-out vehicle lights on Wilshire Bvd. Coastal dim-out programs in 1942 were introduced after german submarines easily sunk silhouetted allied shipping along the Atlantic coast.

 

[Fredrocker]

Los Angeles, aug 1942: Traffic is stopped for an inspection of dimmed-out vehicle lights on Wilshire Bvd. Coastal dim-out programs in 1942 were introduced after german submarines easily sunk silhouetted allied shipping along the Atlantic coast.
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Oh Louie thanks for the cars...

 

[Louis]

The US flag, first to fly over Tokyo since the japanese surrender, is raised over the Nippon News building in downtown Tokyo on sept. 5, 1945.

 

[Louis]

The Grand Central Station of N.Y. city during the war.

 

[Louis]

This image from 1945 shows Manhattan Project physicist Harold Agnew (1921 - 2013), smiling and holding the plutonium core of one of the world's most devastating weapons. Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for 80,000 deaths, the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

 

[Louis]

Cleaning lost photos.

 

[Louis]

The US artist Elizabeth Black (1912/1983), who left a promising Pittsburgh art career to join American Red Cross efforts during WW2, draws troops in England in 1944. She proposed a unique project to sketch hundreds of soldiers, sailors and airmen throughout Europe and send the treasured portraits to worried families back home.