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, March 12, 2018
Shorpy Home Front Photos: Copper and Communication
MARCH 28, 2017-- HOT LUNCH 1942 -- November 1941, Garfield, Utah. "Loading a copper converter at the Garfield smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company." By Anfreas Feininger, OWI.
MARCH 30, 2017-- A SERIES OF TUBES, 1943-- June 1943 Washington, D.C. "Miss Helen Ringwald, employed by the Western Union telegraph office, works with the pneumatic tubes through which messages are sent to branches in other parts of the city for delivery." Esther Bibley, OWI.
It takes a lot to win a war.
--GreGen
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