American Miscellaneous

[Bootie]

Woman workers inspect a partly inflated barrage balloon in New Bedford, Massachusetts on May 11, 1943. Each part of the balloon must be stamped by the worker who does the particular job, also by the work inspector of the division, and finally by the "G" inspector, who gives final approval.

 

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With some of New York's skyscrapers looming through clouds of gas, some U.S. army nurses at the hospital post at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York, wear gas masks as they drill on defense precautions, on November 27, 1941.

 

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Women of the defense corps form a "V" for victory with crossed hose lines at a demonstration of their abilities in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on November 14, 1941.

 

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Mrs. Paul Titus, 77-year-old air raid spotter of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, carries a gun as she patrols her beat, on December 20, 1941. Mrs. Titus signed-up the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. "I can carry a gun any time they want me to," she declared.

 

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These Northwestern University girls brave freezing weather to go through a Home Guard rifle drill on the campus in Evanston, Illinois on January 11, 1942. From left to right are: Jeanne Paul, age 18, of Oak Park, Illinois,; Virginia Paisley, 18, of Lakewood, Ohio; Marian Walsh, 19, also from Lakewood; Sarah Robinson, 20, of Jonesboro, Arkansas,; Elizabeth Cooper, 17, of Chicago; Harriet Ginsberg, 17.

 

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Movie actress Ida Lupino, is a lieutenant in the Women's Ambulance and Defense Corps and is shown at a telephone switch board in Brentwood, California, on January 3, 1942. In an emergency she can reach every ambulance post in the city. It is in her house and from here she can see the whole Los Angeles area.

 

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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

 

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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.

 

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

 

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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.