JUNE 11, 2014-- DEAR FOLKS: 1943-- July 1943. "Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Writing a letter home. Jack Delano, OWI.
JUNE 9, 2014-- HOT BOX: 1943-- 1943. "Melbourne, Australia. U.S. Army hospital. Patient receiving treatment in the new fever machine which keeps temperature at 107 degrees (108 degrees is fatal). Note ice in the basin to cool the man's head." Jo Fallon, OWI.
JUNE 27, 2014-- TAVERN ON THE GREEN: 1944-- January 5, 1944. "Tavern on the Green, Central park, NYC. Christmas exterior." Arthur Schleifer, client.
--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.

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.
Friday, April 1, 2016
Shorpy Home Front Photos: A Variety
Labels:
Australia,
homefront,
medicine,
OWI,
photographs,
Shorpy Photos
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