JUNE 17, 2014 TROOP TRAIN: 1943-- March 1943-- "Grants, New Mexico. Passing a troop train stopping for coal and water on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe between Belen and Gallup." Jack Delano, OWI. Moving troops coast-to-coast.
Jack Delano rode the rails a whole lot.
JUNE 12, 2014-- CROSSING GUARD: 1943-- March 1943-- Topock, Arizona (vicinity) Military sentry at a bridge over the Colorado River along Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona, and Needles, California. Jack Delano, OWI
These above two photos are from the vicinity of Route 66.
JUNE 12, 2014-- THE P.E. CUP: 1943-- Oct. 1943. Washington, D.C.. "Playing soccer at Woodrow Wilson High School. Esther Bubley, OWI. Keeping the kids healthy.
--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.
Friday, April 1, 2016
Shorpy Home Front Photos: Riding the Rails and Kicking the Ball
Labels:
Arizona,
bridges,
California,
homefront,
New Mexico,
OWI,
photographs,
railroads,
Route 66,
Shorpy Photos,
trains
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