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“We tried to make it homey but maybe curtains over the stove wasn’t the best decorating idea. We didn’t burn the place down, though.” Aunt and her friend in their first apartment, mid-1950s.
u/Just_Fine1814 — 4 days ago
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A 1953 coed at Mary Washington College and an avid fan of Army athletics. She displays her pennant and Army mule mascot as she kneels on the Navy’s goat.
u/Just_Fine1814 — 11 days ago
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Fall, 1953 – coeds at Mary Washington College display pennants of the universities and service academies their boyfriends attend.
u/Just_Fine1814 — 11 days ago
▲ 11 r/WW2Photographs
Shortly before WW2 the US Army solicited bids for the multipurpose vehicle that would become the jeep. Willys, Ford, and the American Bantam Car Co. all submitted designs but the latter, shown here, could not produce the numbers needed. Over a half-million jeeps were produced during the war.
u/Just_Fine1814 — 11 days ago
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Famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle at Anzio with GIs of the 191st Tank Battalion
u/Just_Fine1814 — 16 days ago
▲ 13 r/WW2Photographs
US Marine sergeant and wounded sailor celebrate the end of the war in New York City
u/Just_Fine1814 — 1 month ago
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Triple Nickle paratrooper
A member of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, the first all-Black airborne unit of the US Army. The "Triple Nickles" were stationed in the Pacific Northwest and some of the forest fires they fought were ignited by Japanese balloon bombs.
u/Just_Fine1814 — 1 month ago