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Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. First Lieutenant John Stanley Benton

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01/01/1942
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Siegel, Arthur S., photographer
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Wayne (Mich.) ,  42.28139, -83.38639
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

label_outline Explore Wayne Mich, Air Ferry Command, United States Army Air Corps

[Stanley Wellington Finch, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]

Left to right: Admiral W.H. Standley, United States Ambassador to Russia; Mr. Alexander Kirk, United States Minister to Egypt; Colonel T.S. Riggs (representing General Maxwell). Photograph taken at airport near Cairo as Mr. Kirk and Colonel Riggs saw Admiral Standley take-off for America. Photograph taken Tuesday, October 13, 1942

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with sword in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri]

Washington, D.C. A new mobile canteen, recently received by the District of Columbia Red Cross, serving the armed forces around the district. Mrs. Harold Hoskins and her three assistants are feeding transient pilots and crews at a nearby Army airport

Washington, D.C. A lieutenant in the United States Army Air Transport Command calling the airport to check on flight conditions before checking out at the United Nations service center

American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. As rapidly as they are assembled, American P-40 fighter planes line up at an African airport, are fueled and given final adjustments prior to taking off for the battlefront

Congressional Airport Com., 4/30/29

Benton McMillin - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A lieutenant of an interceptor squadron stationed at Lake Muroc, California

Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair, right, commanding general of the U.S. Army ground forces, discussing with an umpire one of the problems being worked out at the recent maneuvers of the Third Army in Louisiana

Japanese-American volunteers. Colonel James J. Doyle, second from right, commanding officer of Kauai, Hawaii Service Command looks on as the oath of induction is administered to the four young AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers of Kauai who went through the solemn pledge of allegiance immediately after Mitsuru Doi took his oath Thursday as the first man in the territory to be inducted. The oath is being administered by Major Charles V. McManus (extreme right), adjutant of the Service Command. The inductees are, from left to right: Goro Sadaoka, eighteen, of Lihue, who has two brothers on Oahu, both volunteers; Lenneth T. Tada, twenty-five, alumnus of the University of Hawaii, salesman for the Kauai Sales Company; Shigeo Suemori, twenty-one, of Lihue, whose brother Tadao was rejected after his physical examination, and Noboru Okamoto, eighteen, Lihue Plantation employee, who was born in Lihue and made a name for himself as pitcher for the Lihue baseball team

Lt. Jno. Harding - Public domain photograph

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