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| Description: | A smiling USO staff worker serves pancakes to hungry soldiers. |
| Date: | 09 1943 |
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| Description: | A real-life Rosie the Riveter instructs journalists on the Aviation Writers' Tour at the Goodyear Aircraft Factory. This plant manufactured Martin Marauder... |
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| Description: | Five women walking up a flight of stairs dressed in civilian clothing and carrying suitcases reporting for duty as WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emer... |
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| Description: | Five women dressed in WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) uniforms saluting and carrying suitcases, probably at the University of Wiscon... |
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| Description: | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) bugler, dressed in WAVES uniform, playing bugle on a staircase. |
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| Description: | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in uniform marching in snow. |
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| Description: | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in a classroom sitting at typewriters listening to headphones studying code. |
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| Description: | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) soldier saluting superimposed in front of an image of the American Flag and a gun crew on a ship. |
| Date: | 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Consolidated Paper Company factory showing the large treater used in the manufacture of glider parts during World War II. Ralph Turne... |
| Date: | 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company check the quality of the laminate product emerging from the dry end of the treater. The laminate was manuf... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Women employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company performing an early layup operation, a part of the process whereby the company made ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Holocaust survivors in quarantine after World War II; Smalands Anneberg, Sweden, Summer. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Platner's co-workers and officers in a military camp; Tashkent, U.S.S.R. Fred Platner worked at the camp as a truck driver. |
| Date: | 10 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Heinrich Hollands of the "Aachener Nachrichten" speaking to a conference of German journalists at Marburg University following World War II. To Hollands' ... |
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| Description: | Two instructors, Beatrice and Leon Lamoreux, teaching Naval students telegraphy at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Six women and one man take messages at the Truax Field Message Center, during World War II. Beatrice Lamoreux is sitting at the back table on the left side... |
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| Description: | Three women sitting at a table appear to be proofreading documents at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
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| Description: | Mamie Arms Hall, mother of Lewis Arms, holds up her red cross badge which shows she has a son at war. These badges were usually displayed on a door or in a... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Foreign correspondent Alvin J. Steinkopf saying goodbye to Czechoslovakian children after interviewing them about their relief needs. |
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