From the April 20, 2016, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back."
1941, 75 years ago.
The members of the Sycamore unit of the Illinois Reserve Militia were fingerprinted at the regular drill of the local outfit on Thursday evening, the fingerprinting done by Lt. Ebbeson, a member of the police force of DeKalb on regular FBI blanks."
I Imagine in Case of the Body Being Too Being Too Badly Torn Up in an Explosion. --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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