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
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.
Monday, January 2, 2017
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