January 15, 2017-- SHE SELLS CELERY: 1942-- November 1942" Lancaster, Pennsylvania. "Mennonite farm woman at her stall in the Central Market." Marjory Collins, OWI She is standing under a sign for Millers Celery.
January 14, 2017-- GAME NIGHT: 1942-- October 1942. "New York. Dr. and Mrs. Winn with daughters Janet and Marie, a Czech-American family, playing Chinese checkers while the grandmother knits." Marjory Collins, OWI
Comment: John A. Winn, his wife Hanna and daughters came to the U.S. from Czechoslovakia in 1939. he became a well-known psychiatrist and died in 1983.
--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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