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Kay Francis and Mitzi Mayfair, back from entertaining American troops in the British Isles and Africa, pose in the costumes they wore while traveling. They formed half a United Service Organization (USO) camp overseas unit, with Carole Landis and Martha Raye

At the Aviation Camp of the American Army at Issoudun, France. A Lt. in the Aviation, Miss Givenwilson, head of American Red Cross Canteen at the camp, and a Sentinel on guard

[Kager Mays, African American soldier, half-length portrait, facing front] / Shepherd & Smith, post artists, Camp McClellan, Iowa; Rock Island Barracks, Ill.

Metz. The Americans received a royal welcome at Metz. The troops entered the city under the floral arch which was gay with the National colors of France and Her Allies

Miss Mary Wiyitt assisted by Miss Grace MacLam (same as number 7691) At the door of the old chapel. All kinds of costumes are in fashion at this party. Miss Mary Wiyitt, AMERICAN RED CROSS Hospital searcher at Camp Hospital No. 27, assisted by Miss Grace McLane, distributes magazines, chocolate, comfort bags, pipes, etc. to the soldiers at the door of the old Chapel at Tours

Michelle Perkins and Kendra Keiser (Baltimore Hons), pose at the Night of 100 Elvises at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland where the event has been going on for 24 years

American woman, members of American colonies in Paris at work at Lyceum Club packing comfort kits to be distributed among our troops at the front and in French training camps

Foot ball match British Army v. French Army. Spectators in the grand stand, showing Mr. & Mrs. Keith Roach

American girl in the American hospital in France. Miss Marjorie Kay of New York has spent about a year in the American Hospital in France. The photograph shows her in attendance in the operating room where the jaws of a French soldier are being reconstructed after a German shell had battered them beyond recognition

Kay Francis and Mitzi Mayfair, back from entertaining American troops in the British Isles and Africa, pose in the costumes they wore while traveling. They formed half a United Service Organization (USO) camp overseas unit, with Carole Landis and Martha Raye

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.

Image source: USO (United Service Organization) photo from OWI.

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1629.

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safety film negatives lot 3474 ann rosener united states office of war information photo kay francis mitzi mayfair american troops british isles service organization carole landis martha raye office of war information farm security administration home front wwii world war 2 library of congress
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01/01/1943
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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A fast friendship developed between these two civil service employees in the assembly and repairs department of the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Pilot and observer who bought their own plane and flew it in from Wisconsin to join the patrol

Fair employment practices in defense industries. A poster distributed by the OEM (Office of Emergency Management) Labor Division and the President's Committe on Fair Employment Practice to war plants and employment offices throughout the United States

Victory food from American waters. Tomorrow's fishermen--young Gloucester boys push wagons of rosefish from the unloading pier to the processing plant where the fish are filleted and frozen. Many of the boys will follow their forefathers and fishermen in New England waters

A battalion of American troops from the Rhine stood with arms presented while their bugler blew "taps" and the flags of France and America were unfurled over the grave of 22,000 American heroes

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Army trucks and other vehicles at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are checked thoroughly, and at regular intervals. Wherever possible, motorized military equipment is maintained in constant tip top shape, instantly ready for strenuous action

Reciprocal aid. Two sergeants from Texas, Sergeant A. Baker and Technical Sergeant Roy Hill, carry a string of British bullets over their shoulders to a British Spitfire. American and British air forces work side by side in the European theatre, with British furnishing important supplies and equipment under the Reciprocal Aid Program

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. "Captain" Mary explaining the merits of gyroscope in navigation

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Inside the log cofferdam of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

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safety film negatives lot 3474 ann rosener united states office of war information photo kay francis mitzi mayfair american troops british isles service organization carole landis martha raye office of war information farm security administration home front wwii world war 2 library of congress