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Red Cross Worker Serves Coffee
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Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross Worker, serving coffee and talking with B-29 crew at Kobler Field in Saipan. Sullivan is reaching for a large coffee pot and is surrounded by the men in their uniforms. Sullivan and most of the men are smiling. One man is writing at the table.
March 1945
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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