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 2, 2017

Shorpy Home Front Photos:

Dec. 5, 2016--  AIR NOIR: 1943.  July 1943.  Greenville, South Carolina "Air Service Command.  Enlisted man folding up his gas mask to hang on the wall after having worn it all day."  Jack Delano, OWI

December 6, 2016 ELECTRIC ANGEL: 1943.  January 1943.  Washington, D.C..  "This Office of Price Administration clerk, speaking of her boarding house room, says:  'The light looks like an angel when I leave the shade off, so I do.'"  Esther Bubley, OWI.

--GreGen

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