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A man and a woman are sitting in a plane. Office of War Information Photograph

Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes, twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, flying with the 64th Squadron of the 57th Fighter Group, returning after destroying three German Messerschmitt-109s in aerial victory over the Sicilian straits on April 18, in which the 57th United States Fighter Group of the 9th Air Force destroyed seventy-four enemy planes

A man sitting on the wing of an airplane. Office of War Information Photograph

Lieutenant Robert Byrnes, twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, who now has three ME-109 emeny fighter planes to his credit, is shown here with Major Glade B. Bilby of Skidmore, Missouri, as the pass some time with a checker game. Major Bilby is commanding officer of Sixty-Fourth fighter squadron of the Fifty-Seventh fighter group

Officer Bill Livesay, 25, Madison, New Jersey, (left) who accounts for three and one half enemy planes destroyed. Lieutenant John Stefanik, 24, Chicopee, Massachusetts, (left) who destroyed three enemy planes, and Lieutenant Charles Leaf, 21, South Orange, New Jersey, who destroyed two enemy planes in aerial victory over Sicilian straits. They are wearing the insignia of the 66th squadron of the 57th Fighter Group. This "Squadron X" (for exterminators) made the high score of ther aerial victory with

Captain Rollo C. "Pop" Lawrence of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force, who has just finished 300 combat hours in the Middle East and North Africa. He is shown in the Snow White, a B-24 bomber which he piloted across the Atlantic and the only plane he ever used in a bombing mission. Captain Lawrence was a Louisiana state patrolman before the war

A black and white photo of three men. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a person on a skateboard. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes (in the plane), twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, flying with the Sixty-fourth Squadron of the Fifty-seventy Fighter Group is seen here as he landed after destroying three ME-109's. The Fifty-seventh United States Fighter Group of the Ninth Air Force destroyed seventy-four enemy planes in the same action. Lieutenant Byrnes now has four enemy fighter planes to his credit. He was a pro baseball player with Cincy farm system before the war. Captain Carl A. Nelson, Los Angeles, California, intelligence agen for Sixty-fourth, getting details of Byrnes' part in action

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01/01/1942
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Taung (North-West, South Africa) ,  -27.53333, 24.80000
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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, in the black dress, a twenty-six year old widow, with six children under twelve, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. Her two youngest children, Mona, two, and Carol, five, live in a foster home during the week. Mrs. Hehr, holding the rabbit, is their foster mother, and is giving a birthday party for Mona

Carte de la Barbarie, le la Nigritie et del la Guinée /

Music Hall, 154 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York, New York County, NY

[Bobby Wallace, St. Louis Browns, baseball card portrait]

Second lady expert at making Red Cross bandages. Washington, D.C., May 7. Mrs. John N. Garner, (left) wife of the Vice President, teaches the art of preparing Red Cross bandages to Mrs. James F. Byrnes, wife of the Senator from South Carolina, at a meeting of the Senate Ladies club at the Capitol. Even though her time is well occupied with duties as Secretary to the Vice President, Mrs. Garner seldom misses the weekly meeting and luncheon of the Senate Ladies, 5/7/38

Major-Generals Spaatz, Bergeret, and Doolittle

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200 square mile Marine base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows Corporal Arvin L. Ghazlo demonstrating to a bayonet class technique of disarming the enemy. Corporal Ghazlo was once teacher of judo to the Georgia State Police

Baruch quizzed by Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Senator James F. Byrnes, (left) Chairman of the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee, questioning Bernard Baruch, voted Financier today. Baruch declared America must make a choice between the "proof of its system and the hope of gain" and the "the new European ideas of state regulation and fear of punishment"

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Joe Gonzales, former professional baseball player, handles the organization of sports in the recreation department of North American Aviation at Inglewood, California. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

[Lawrence Joseph Doyle, baseball player for New York NL, full-length, facing left, swinging bat; full-length, facing left, throwing ball; and full-length, standing, facing front, holding bat]

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