JAN. 12, 2014-- CORPORAL KINK: 1942-- August 1942 Fort Belvoir, Virginia. "Soldiers using a barbed wire anchor spike to screw in a picket. He is wearing special gloves that are made for handling barbed wire." By Howard Lieberman, OWI. Comment that he is wearing a World War I helmet and carrying a Springfield '03 rifle.
JAN. 12, 2014-- DRIVER 469-- November 1942. Salt Lake City, Utah. "Women training to operate buses and taxicabs." By Andreas Feininger, OWI. To replace the men who were off in service.
JAN. 9, 2014-- ENGAUGED: 1942-- September 1942. "Washington, D.C. Conversion of the Shoreham Hotel furnaces from oil to coal burning system." By Howard Lieberman, OWI This helped conserve oil for the war effort.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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