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.

Monday, January 25, 2016

Shorpy Photos: Home Front-- Trains

MAY 11, 2014  THE TRAVELERS: 1943--  January 1943  "At information desk at Union station Chicago."  By Jack Delano, OWI.

Comments:  Noticed a flag of the Philippines hanging from the ceiling.  Flags of the Allies on display at Chicago's Union Station.

Another said that in 1943, her mother, a new wife, rode the train from New Orleans to Los Angeles to be with her father before he went off to the war in the Pacific.  She said, "Mom, with no child in tow, made the trip sitting on her suitcase; no gallant GI offered his coach seat."

MAY 10, 2014  THE SHOPTOWN SHOPS: 1942--  March 1943.  Fort Madison, Iowa.  "In the train control room at the Shopton shops of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, testing pneumatic train control equipment.  This rack is used for testing about eight different parts of the apparatus."  By Jack Delano, OWI.  Mr. Delano took a lot of train pictures during the war.

--GreGen

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